happyhotel - Engineering Manager - AI & Agentic Product (m/f/d)
Requirements
• Background: You have experience as an engineering manager or as a tech lead with a clear focus on people & processes. • Background: • Builder Mentality: You are eager to build a team from 0 to 1 and establish processes where they do not yet exist. • Builder Mentality: • Communication: You can facilitate communication between ML experts, app developers, and product managers—clearly and solution-oriented, with no empty buzzwords. • Communication: • Stakeholder Management: You have experience not only "managing" external service providers, but also leading them operationally to prevent technical chaos. You know how to combine external speed with internal quality standards. • Stakeholder Management: • Languages: Fluent German and English. • Languages: • You should feel comfortable in our environment: Python (ML), TypeScript, Angular, AWS, and MongoDB. • Python • TypeScript • Angular • MongoDB
Responsibilities
• In this position, you will lead two teams that form the core of our product: • Machine Learning / Data Science: Focus on pricing & forecasting. • Machine Learning / Data Science: • Agentic Application (Greenfield): You will build this team from scratch to develop a completely new, AI-driven product. • Agentic Application (Greenfield): • completely new, AI-driven product • You are responsible for people management (disciplinary) for both teams. Your task is to bridge complex ML models and a scalable product. You will work closely with our staff engineers (full stack & ML), who set the technical guidelines and architecture. • Team Building & Scaling • You will build the new "Agentic Application" unit. In the first phase, you will manage development with external partners and freelancers, while simultaneously recruiting the internal team. • You are responsible for the entire hiring process (interview loops, case design, final decisions). • People Leadership • People Leadership • You act as coach and mentor for your teams. You take care of feedback, individual development paths, and a healthy team dynamic. • You create structures where engineering quality and reliable delivery go hand in hand. • Execution & Processes • You establish a system for planning and release cycles that suits a startup. • You ensure that ML experiments and frontend features integrate logically, and that we learn quickly through measurability (e.g., A/B tests). • Product Focus • You work closely with the product team on the roadmap and make pragmatic decisions when weighing trade-offs between UX, technical risk, and speed.
Benefits
• True pioneering work: You will build a completely new product in the field of Agentic AI. • A dynamic startup environment with plenty of freedom and flat hierarchies • A motivated, helpful team that wants to achieve great things together • Equity: We offer attractive employee participation (ESOP). • Personal training budget and regular development talks • Flexible working hours and remote work • Attractive additional benefits, such as Hansefit, bike leasing, team events, workation, support for your work-life balance, and many other advantages!
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