Associate Project Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in Munich or Cologne, Germany. The role includes a minimum one-month onboarding period at the Zurich headquarters, regular in-person team visits in Zurich and at hirify.global hubs, and occasional customer visits 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, including kick-off, scope, planning, configuration, testing, and go-live.
• Manage several customers in parallel and keep projects on schedule, within scope, and within budget.
• Work with customers to understand processes, identify invalid assumptions, and manage change requests.
• Coordinate Integrations Engineers, Technical Project Managers, and AI Automation Specialists.
• Hand over completed implementations to Consultants and the support organization.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 1+ year of experience, with up to 2 years of professional experience including internships, working-student roles, or initial experience in consulting, technical implementation, process automation, or project management.
• Ability to run several projects simultaneously without losing control of delivery.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements for technical teams.
• Fluent German and English, spoken and written.
• Ownership, autonomy, structured execution under pressure, sound escalation judgment, scope discipline, and confidence working with customer finance or IT leads.

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.
• Continuous learning and exposure to AI technology.
• Paid visits and stays at the Zurich headquarters, including team days, all-hands, and offsites.