Senior Project Manager (AI SaaS)

Location: Full-time hybrid position based in Munich or Cologne, Germany; minimum one-month onboarding at the Zurich headquarters, followed by home or hub work with regular in-person visits and occasional customer travel across the DACH region.

Company

hirify.global is a majority employee-owned SaaS scale-up providing an agentic platform that automates finance and operations processes for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Run customer implementations end to end, from kick-off and scope through planning, configuration, testing, go-live, and handover.
• Manage several customers in parallel and keep delivery dates, budgets, dependencies, and scope under control.
• Deliver global transformation programs across multiple ERP systems, legal entities, and countries, including wave planning after the first go-live.
• Coordinate Integrations Engineers, Technical Project Managers, AI Automation Specialists, Consultants, and other delivery contributors.
• Run steering committees, own resulting decisions, and escalate scope, process, and delivery risks early.
• Lead engagement teams, coach Project Managers, and create recovery plans for programs that are off track.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience delivering complex projects in management consulting, enterprise software implementation, or large-scale transformation delivery.
• Proven experience running multi-country or multi-entity programs with senior client stakeholders and executive steering committees.
• Experience leading a delivery team, not only managing a project plan.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including translating business needs into actionable technical requirements.
• Fluent German and English, spoken and written.
• Demonstrated scope discipline, ownership, autonomy, escalation judgment, client confidence, and structured execution under pressure.

Nice to have

• ERP implementation experience.
• Experience with finance or supply chain processes.
• Experience with AI-driven SaaS.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership environment with structured career progression and opportunities to move into Consulting or Customer Success Engineering.
• Cross-functional work with engineers, data scientists, and business leaders on automation for global enterprises.
• Majority employee ownership and a stock option program.
• Paid visits and stays at the Zurich headquarters, including team days, all-hands, and offsites.
• Continuous learning and exposure to AI technology in a fast-paced environment.