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(Mid/Senior) Product Manager – AI/NLP education services (m/f/d)

Tech & Engineering
Remote + 5 more locations
Full Time
Permanent
Experienced Professionals
Focused student studying
When applying for this position, you will have the opportunity to indicate your preferred work location from the following: Remote, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart

Support our innovative Synthetic Teaching team remotely across Germany, preferably in Munich, at one of our locations in Germany or remotely across Germany starting immediately in full-time as (Mid / Senior) Product Manager – AI/NLP education services (m/f/d).

Your tasks
  • Take over responsibility for our next generation AI-powered (NLP) core teaching services as an experienced product manager

  • Evaluate user-research, market/innovation trends and competition to determine what features to build​

  • Explore, define, and develop new valuable use-cases and scalable features that optimizes our user´s study outcomes

  • Improve and maintain existing services and bring them to the next level

  • Steer the service development engineers to facilitate successful implementation

  • Be responsible for the entire lifecycle – from idea, through explore, validate, grow, sustain, and eventually retire

  • Accountable to the business for delivering ​value to customers​ in line with the company´s strategy

  • Coordinate with higher management, stakeholders, and our AI/Data-Science team to plan roadmaps, prioritize epics and funnel into development

Your profile
  • You have minimum of 3 years’ experience as a product manager with track-record of at least one or more successfully launched digital product/services

  • You have experience in technical domains and understand how AI/NLP models are working. Ideally, you understand which AI/NLP models are used to solve which problems / provide which value

  • You are thinking in solutions and tend to focus on simplicity (think big start with MVP)

  • You have a lean start-up mentality and want to help us revolutionize education

  • You can derive and execute tactical decisions from company & department strategies that can be implemented in the current business and simultaneously bring us further towards our big vision

  • You are able to work in a fast-paced environment

  • You are accustomed to working with cross-functional product teams applying modern product development practices

  • You are a collaborative team player, with a positive personality and passion

  • You have a great sense of vision; you can pitch concept ideas and bring the team along for the ride

  • You have great communication skills, fluent English especially in writing, speaking German is a plus

We offer
  • Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we'll help you make it happen.

  • Work from wherever you want …: Project management tools (e.g. Scrum) and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.

  • … and flexible time: It's your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.

  • You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.

  • Take your knowledge to a new level: Benefit from a 100% discount on tuition fees for an IU combined degree in the tech sector and many other free training courses. There is always something new to learn.

  • Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? What about a sabbatical?

About us

Become part of our Data Science & AI team at Germany's largest university! We develop solutions to further increase our efficiency and productivity – through automation, higher clocking, and better monitoring of our processes.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now! If you have any other questions, feel free to contact Gizem Keles via gizem.keles@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our "Culture Of Everyone" very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!

Your personal contact
Your personal contact - Anita Streitferdt

Anita Streitferdt

Tech Recruiter

Our explosive growth pushes us to always reinvent ourselves. My daily tasks are very different from one year ago. IU is a unique opportunity for those who want to learn and grow at speed.
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Marco Kukulies
CTO
IU asked me in my interview what I wished to do—today I’m doing it. I have the freedom to work as I please, develop what I feel is needed, and I am fully supported with my career development plan.
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Anton Stangl
Software Developer
What we’ll do for you
Design your ideal career and pathway
Explosive growth enables great opportunities. Tell us your dream career, and we will help you make it a reality.
Work from home, work from anywhere
We blur the lines between local and remote by embracing collaborative & video meeting technologies.
Flexible working times
It’s your call. We trust you will get things done.
Up level your education
You have free access to all our E-Learning platforms and we will fully finance a Technology Degree of your choice.
30 days annual vacation for everyone
We strive for greatness, but we all take time-off to recharge.
Enjoy our brand of social
We love spending time together. Whether it’s yoga, team events, brown bag lunches or partying—there is something for everyone.
World’s best colleagues
We give each other a leg-up when needed, and we collectively go beyond expectations.
Always connected
Our state-of-the-art IT infrastructure, tools, & methods empower us to collaborate and innovate from anywhere, anytime—with agility and speed.
Your personal technology
Leave it to us. We provide you with a leading-edge smartphone, Mac, tablet, ergonomic office stool, and complete Home Office equipment. You may also choose your preferred hardware and IDE.
The location
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Remote
With our positions, you don't have to decide where to work. Whether you want to work from home, at one of our offices across Germany or up to six months abroad. Enjoy maximum flexibility!
About the team
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Tech & Engineering
We push the outside of the envelope, challenge what exists, and do what hasn’t been done before—building an unbreakable connection between people and education. That’s how we roll in Tech & Engineering at IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU).

Unrestricted access to learning is a life-changing concept. We build solutions for digital education that are accessible wherever we go. They’re mobile, always on, and everywhere. Advancing through AI, NLP, Big Data Analytics, IoT, Cloud platforms, and Software Development, we are leading the digital transformation of education in the era of Industry 4.0.
Our core values
#1

Make collaboration standard practice.

We aim for the best solution as a team and have fun with it - without ego or politics.
#2

Be courageous and take risks.

We make courageous decisions and take calculated risks.
#3

Embrace innovation always.

We are always looking for ways to improve our offers for our customers.
#4

Strive for the empowerment of everyone.

We support each other’s development to become the best version of ourselves.
#5

Adopt a growth mindset for scale.

We aim to improve ourselves in everything we do and work hard to do so every day.
#6

Focus on getting things done on time.

We implement things quickly, pragmatically, effectively and goal-oriented.
#7

Put customer focus first.

In everything we do, our customers come first.

Tech & Engineering FAQs

How is the IU-Tech Team structured?
Starting with three Techies, we have grown to 60+ developers in three years. We are spread across 17 teams, in three technical clusters: IU EDU TECH, IU MAR TECH and IU ORG TECH.
What are my responsibilities in the IU EDU Tech-Team?
You will be responsible for building IT solutions for our 100,000+ students—ranging from Moodle based learning management systems, to portals based on vueJS and nestJS, to native iOS apps.
What are my responsibilities in the IU MAR-Team?
You will be responsible for developing high-performance websites and landing pages using Laravel, Tailwind, and vueJS. In addition, you will get to develop AI driven customer-centric solutions.
What are my responsibilities in the IU ORG-Team?
In Dev/Ops you will be responsible for developing complex ERP Solutions based fully on TypeScript, nestJS, and vueJS, and implementation in a Kafka event-sourcing driven micro-service architecture.
Can I work remotely for the Tech-Team?
Of course! We are happy to have you on board.
What Tech-Stack is used at IU?
We love PHP and JavaScript. You will find little jQuery here, mostly typed JavaScript in the form of vueJs and nestJS in the backend. From PHP in Moodle to micro-services in OOP PHP using the Laravel framework. All projects are GIT based and use CI/CD processes. No one is pushing code through the ether via FTP on Saturday night. Laravel / vueJs / Kafka / Tailwind / MariaDB / MongoDB / AWS / Docker / Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket) / ...