Would you like to play an active and hands-on role in shaping the development of IPAI?
As an innovation platform for applied AI, we pursue the goal of successfully bringing artificial intelligence into use in companies and institutions. With IPAI, we have set ourselves the ambition of becoming the “Global Home of Human AI”. We are creating a space for successful AI transformation and collaboration, generating further momentum for a true AI hotspot in Europe.
You work in deep collaboration with IPAI members to help them clarify their AI-related challenges, opportunities, and priorities. Embedded alongside our members’ leadership, engineering, and innovation teams, you support them in translating ambition into concrete strategies, requirements, and initiatives, building a shared and realistic understanding of how AI can create sustained value over time.
In parallel, you act as a central sense-making function for IPAI, synthesizing insights across members and translating them into decision-ready input for IPAI product management, engineering and strategic partnering decisions.
Your Tasks
- Collaborate deeply with IPAI members, engaging leadership, engineering, and innovation teams to clarify AI ambitions, constraints, and priorities.
- Support members in articulating AI strategies and initiative portfolios, translating high-level goals into concrete requirements and actionable next steps.
- Act as IPAI’s deep customer research function, identifying recurring needs, patterns, and systemic challenges across the member ecosystem.
- Synthesize and translate member insights into decision-ready input for IPAI Engineering and Leadership, informing platform direction and program design.
- Bridge strategy and execution, synthesize and translate member insights into decision-ready input for Leadership and Engineering, and ensure that initiatives are framed clearly enough to be taken forward to execution in a timely manner and without loss of intent or context.
- Lead consulting-style engagements with credibility and empathy, focused on durable capability building and long-term ecosystem leverage.
Your profile
- Several years of experience in technology, digital, or AI-related transformation roles, strategy consulting, product discovery, or comparable positions.
- Proven track record of working with organizations to clarify strategy, define initiatives, and align business and engineering perspectives in ambiguous environments.
- Experience engaging both senior leadership and hands-on engineering or innovation teams.
- Solid understanding of AI and software engineering fundamentals, enabling credible engagement with technical stakeholders.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills, capable of aligning diverse stakeholders around shared understanding.
- Consulting mindset combined with pragmatism and a focus on long-term, real-world impact.
Our offer
IPAI is driven by the vision to become the “Global Home of Human AI” – an ambition that meets a hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial spirit. You can expect an environment where a pioneering spirit is lived: you have the freedom to create something new and to actively contribute to IPAI’s growth.. In doing so, you are part of a vibrant innovation platform for applied AI, where business, science, startups, and society come together. If you are eager to turn this vision into reality within a strong community and an ambitious team, you are a perfect fit for us..
- Your Daily Work – Your Flexibility
Innovation needs freedom instead of fixed hours. With us, you decide where and when your impact is greatest: whether deep work from home or co-creation on-site, whether early bird or night owl – we forgo rigid 9-to-5 structures. What counts for us is not mere presence, but the result.
- Your Personal Growth
Your learning curve with us is steep. We accompany your development individually and support you with customized training and targeted sparring.
- Our Team Spirit and Work Atmosphere
Come as you are: what matters to us is your authentic self. You will work in an inspiring environment in our state-of-the-art office, equipped with everything you need. Innovation thrives on exchange – that’s why we strengthen our bond through regular team events and legendary offsites.
- Our Innovation Ecosystem
At IPAI, you are part of a unique network of startups, companies, and research. You have direct access to exclusive expert knowledge and inspiration through high-caliber keynotes and tech impulses. Network with the brightest minds at our events and help shape the Global Home of Human AI as an active part of the community.
- Your Compensation & Mobility
We offer you a competitive salary package and an attractive pension models.
- Your Additional Benefits
Benefit from the comprehensive benefit network of the Schwarz Group: for example, free access to our modern gyms, the Medical-Center with specialist medical care, or corporate benefits.
We are looking forward to your application!
Schwarz Corporate Solutions KG · Larissa Bühler · Referenz-No. 2236
Im Zukunftspark 11/13, 74076 Heilbronn
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