AI Operations Manager

Role Description

As an AI Operations Manager (all genders), you drive how envelio adopts and uses AI internally as a company - discovering high-value AI use cases across departments and shaping them into a coherent landscape that teams actually use, rather than a patchwork of individual experiments.

Above all, you are the enabler and connector for AI adoption across envelio. The heart of this role is working hand in hand with every department:

• Discovering concrete AI use cases
• Understanding what value AI can bring to each team's value streams
• Turning those opportunities into real adoption on the ground

This is a senior individual contributor role with company-wide reach. You don't manage people, but you shape decisions and patterns that touch every function at envelio.

Who You Work With

• Department leads across envelio - your primary stakeholders and the source of most use cases
• AI champions in every department - embedded counterparts who scout use cases, pilot patterns, and drive adoption inside their teams
• AI Platform Engineers - the role that owns the technical direction, platform, and architecture
• Engineering teams building or using internal AI - you bring use cases to them and collaborate closely
• Governance, security, and executive leadership - partners on direction, policy, and decisions

How You Make an Impact

• Act as the enabler and connector for AI adoption across envelio
• Build a clear picture of where AI can create value across how envelio works internally
• Surface and champion the use cases teams pursue and help define what success looks like
• Translate department needs into clear requirements for AI tooling and AI-enabled SaaS
• Bring the use-case and value perspective into envelio's strategic AI questions
• Partner with governance to translate policy into patterns teams can follow
• Bring deep technical credibility to every department

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background at senior level or above
• Strong conceptual fluency across the main AI building blocks (LLMs, vision, multimodal, classical ML)
• Track record of leading cross-functional AI or architectural efforts across multiple teams
• Pragmatic about build vs. buy, and comfortable with governance, compliance, and risk
• Strong communicator with audiences outside engineering
• Fluent in English; German is a plus

Benefits

• Join us fully remote or at our lovely office in Cologne in a hybrid working mode
• Option for remote work from abroad (up to three months per year from anywhere in the EU or the USA)
• State-of-the-art technology and modern tech stack
• Excellent hardware equipment (16-inch MacBooks, 2 screens at the office)
• 30 holidays + 3 corporate holidays
• Support for your health through sports membership cooperations
• Flexible use of a monthly mobility budget (e.g. Jobrad, public transport)
• Time and resources for individual growth
• envelio pension plan
• Professional mental wellbeing support through our partner nilo for you and your family
• Regular tech and growth talks for internal knowledge sharing
• Regular company and team events