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Strategic Operations Lead in Germany

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📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany· Full-time
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About Us What if your work could drive change in a globally established industry, shaping processes that touch every corner of the world? At Forto, we are at the forefront of change, harnessing the power of AI to revolutionise logistics. We want to reinvent digital supply chains to be transparent, frictionless and sustainable. From day one, our mission has been to simplify global trade – creating a seamless and efficient logistics process. About the role In the Trade Management team, you will join an international and diverse group of passionate experts. We are transforming the way we approach global logistics by moving from intuition-based decisions to a precision-engineered, data-driven strategy. If you are a technical heavyweight who loves to code and model, but also a leader ready to mentor a high-performing team, this is the role for you. We are seeking a Team Lead for Trade Analytics & Market Intelligence to act as the Ted Lasso of our data analytics team. Reporting directly to the Director of Trade Management, you will own the architectural backbone of our trade management decision-making. This is a hybrid role. You will spend a significant portion of your time hands-on in the code—building complex data models, writing high-performance queries, and designing algorithms. Simultaneously, you will lead and develop a small, agile team consisting of a seasoned Analyst and a Market Intelligence Specialist. You will be the bridge between raw data and high-level strategy, directly influencing how we handle Procurement, Pricing, and Forecasting. Key Responsibilities Lead Technical Strategy & Analytics Own the Data Architecture: Architect and maintain the data pipelines and models that drive our GP reporting, demand forecasting, and yield management engines. Hands-On Development: personally write and optimize complex code (SQL, Python/R) to solve our hardest analytical problems. You are the technical escalation point for the team. Forecasting & Modeling: Bu

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📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany· Full-time
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About Us What if your work could drive change in a globally established industry, shaping processes that touch every corner of the world? At Forto, we are at the forefront of change, harnessing the power of AI to revolutionise logistics. We want to reinvent digital supply chains to be transparent, frictionless and sustainable. From day one, our mission has been to simplify global trade – creating a seamless and efficient logistics process. Your role & Mission As Data Director here at Forto, you will be responsible for creating a unified data organisation consisting of Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Engineering. You will dramatically raise the profile of data across the business, partnering with stakeholders in a number of domains to assess and support their data needs. You will own and implement a company wide data strategy, prioritizing competing demands into one cohesive and well understood approach. What you will do Be responsible for the teams (each with their own manager/technical lead) that own the 3 “pillars” of data at Forto: Data Engineering, Data Analytics and Data Science, bringing them into a unified org whilst also encouraging and respecting their specialised skills Ensure that the Data org operates a Centre of Excellence, supporting and educating the “customers” of data across the business. Break down siloes and form strong working relationships with stakeholders. Define and shape a data strategy fit for purpose across our analytical and agentic business needs. Own data governance and quality. Establish the policies, standards, ownership model, and forums that make data trustworthy. Manage day-to-day compliance with GDPR and emerging AI regulation, and set practical guardrails for data and AI use. Sponsor the data platform. Work with engineering and architecture to maintain a reliable, performant, cost-aware platform across ingestion, storage, transformation, BI, and ML. Make build/buy/partner recommendations and manage key vendor relationsh

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📍 Berlin, Berlin, Germany· Full-time
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About Us What if your work could drive change in a globally established industry, shaping processes that touch every corner of the world? At Forto, we are at the forefront of change, harnessing the power of AI to revolutionise logistics. We want to reinvent digital supply chains to be transparent, frictionless and sustainable. From day one, our mission has been to simplify global trade – creating a seamless and efficient logistics process. About the role At Forto, the sales pipeline starts with you. As a Sales Development Representative (f/m/d), your job is to open doors with high-potential customers, and book qualified meetings for our Sales Managers. You’ll become an expert on our customers, outreach strategy, and value proposition, while helping drive growth across Germany. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys dealing with people, and wants a launchpad into a career in Sales. Key Responsibilities Generate pipeline: Identify, research, and engage with ideal customer profiles across all outbound channels (e.g., cold calls, emails, LinkedIn). Think creatively and test new approaches to spark engagement. Book qualified meetings: Own the top of the funnel. Schedule high-quality discovery meetings for Sales Managers - enabling them to uncover customer needs and tailor our value proposition. Maintain CRM hygiene: Accurately record all prospecting activities, lead qualifications, and appointment details in our CRM (Salesforce). Test and learn: Share insights from the field - objections, messaging, tactics - with Sales and Marketing to refine our go-to-market strategy. Required Skills and Experience 1+ years in Sales, with a proactive, confident approach to outreach (esp. cold calling) Native level (C2) fluency in German and good English, with strong written and verbal communication skills Resilient self-starter who’s curious, motivated, and eager to grow Strong organizational and time-management skills Pr

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📍 Germany· Full-time
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Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! At Figma, our Solutions Consulting team bridges technical expertise with business context to help customers realize what’s possible with our platform. As a Solutions Consultant supporting Mid-Market accounts, you’ll partner with Sales and cross-functional teams to craft and deliver consultative strategies that showcase Figma’s value. You’ll lead technical discussions, demos, and solution design to help customers achieve their goals and transform how they build products, playing a key role in driving revenue and growth as Figma continues to innovate This is a full time role that can be held from our Berlin hub. What you'll do at Figma: Paint the vision of the Figma Platform and guide customers in realizing the value through product demonstrations and presentations Support the Sales team by addressing Figma platform questions and showcasing how Figma accelerates digital product delivery to customers Own the customer IT and Security relationship during the deal cycle by addressing security questionnaires, RFIs, RFPs, identity and Mid-Market questions Collaborate with Product and Support to identify opportunities for enhancing account security through new product features and help influence the product roadmap Design and scale technical sales efforts, facilitating conversations and connections between our customers, sales, and product teams Create thoughtful content to delight customers and internal partners surrounding the Figma platform Collaborate with amazing Figmates to hone your craft and exec

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📍 Munich, Munich, Germany· Full-time
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About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

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📍 Frankfurt, Germany· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Consultant Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and mission-critical business impact at speed. Our team acts as the elite consulting arm of Appian, partnering directly with the world’s largest commercial clients to bring their most ambitious ideas to life. By joining this high-performance team, you will establish a world-class foundation in professional consulting while directly accelerating global adoption of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform. As a Consultant at Appian, you won’t just write code - you will architect modern business transformations. This role offers an unprecedented opportunity to sit at the intersection of business strategy and technical innovation. Instead of being pigeonholed into isolated legacy components, you will own the end-to-end delivery of highly visible, custom software solutions. You will work side-by-side with client executives to solve complex workflow problems, build robust integrations, and empower enterprise teams to achieve Enterprise-Grade Orchestration . What You’ll Do Architect & Implement: Design, develop, and deploy robust, custom automation solutions throughout the entire project lifecycle utilizing Appian’s AI-Powered Process Automation platform. Integrate Ecosystems: Build seamless data connections and scalable APIs to integrate multiple external enterprise systems using REST, SOAP, and JDBC connections. Engineer Data Models: Launch new relational data models in production environments and optimize database design through sophisticated SQL development. Ag

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📍 Berlin, Germany· Full-time
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Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? As a Staff Engineer, you will be a leader within the team and a strong contributor to the engineering organization. You will build both back-end and front-end systems, and work closely with designers, product managers, researchers, and data analysts. You will coach and mentor other engineers and partner closely with the Engineering Manager to develop the team and to devise technical strategy. Learn more about our engineering culture at intercom.engineering What will I be doing? As an experienced engineer you will: Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow. We scale to service requests from all our customers’ customers. We’re growing and so are they. Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases. Even our biggest technical achievements roll out piece by piece, feature flagged out of sight. Contribute to all phases of software development including ideation, prototyping, design

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📍 Germany· Full-time
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Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As a full-cycle recruiter, you will play a crucial part in continuing to scale and develop the EMEA Figmate population as we enter an exciting new chapter. You will build exceptional candidate experiences, run end to end hiring processes, and own the way in crafting a pipeline of top talent. You’ll have the ability to take the lead on key initiatives and inspire change. As a key member of our growing international recruiting team, you’ll be able to drive a significant contribution to impacting the future state of Figma. This is a full time role that can be held from our Berlin hub on a hybrid basis. What you’ll do at Figma: Run full-cycle recruiting processes for our Business and Go-to-Market teams Partner with business stakeholders and executives across global Teams, but with a primary focus on EMEA Source and build a healthy, representative pipelines whilst also effectively managing inbound pipelines Use data to shape your hiring strategy and communicate insights to partners that drive meaningful change Develop and create sourcing strategies to engage passive talent including, but not limited to: cold outreach, events, and content production Be a champion of the Figma values and ensure these are at the forefront of your work Seek opportunities to actively contribute to business improvement, which in turn improves our overarching hiring strategy Orchestrate initiatives relating to belonging, equity, and inclusion (BEI) We'd love to hear from you if you have: 7+ years experience

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📍 Germany· Full-time
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Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! We are looking for a Manager, Mid-Market Sales to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, marketers, and forward-thinking business folks. As our Manager Mid-Market Sales, DACH you will lead a team of Account Executives in the DACH region responsible for continuing the growth of our Enterprise product. You will report directly to our Director, Commercial Sales, DACH. With this role you’ll be part of early DACH in a fast growing sales org. You’ll collaborate with our existing customer base and potential customers in driving meaningful relationships that add value to the customer experience and revenue to our bottom line. This is a full time role that will be held from our Berlin office. What you'll be doing: Create and manage a team of motivated and diverse individuals to foster an environment of success Participate in customer and prospect meetings Assist in continual training and development, including mentorship, hiring and career growth Help craft and further develop sales processes and initiatives Interview, hire and train new team members as we scale the business and company Deliver weekly forecast meetings and mentor Account Executives on strategies to help exceed their goals We’d love to hear from you if you have: 7+ years of sales experience (preferably within SaaS) with 3+ years of management experience Understanding of our technical and competitive landscape and ability to thrive in a constantly evolving environment Fluency in German Excitement for growing customer ha

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📍 Munich, Munich, Germany· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startups Go To Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in building successfully on the OpenAI platform. We believe that many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications will be created by startups. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will support startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, and provide access to OpenAI teams and expertise to support their growth. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for serving as the primary relationship owner for a set of strategically important startup customers, as well as working across the OpenAI organization to help these startups accelerate their progress and be successful using our models. You’ll work cross-functionality with product, research, engineering, support, and solutions architecture to help customers get the most out of our models. This role is based in Munich or Berlin. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees In this role, you will: Manage a portfolio of startups accounts, developing

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📍 Germany· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. As a Principal Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be a technical anchor — setting direction, solving the hardest engineering problems, and elevating the entire team. You will work at the intersection of systems design, long-term architecture, and real-world engineering execution. In this specific role, you will lead the evolution of our declarative data pipelines, focusing on streaming ingestion and transformations. What You'll Do Drive the technical strategy and architecture for key Data Platform initiatives, focusing heavily on real-time data movement and incremental processing. Lead design reviews and set engineering standards across teams. Identify and resolve high-impact technical challenges and systemic bottlenecks to reduce latency and improve the efficiency of dynamic tables at cloud scale. Mentor and grow senior engineers; raise the engineering bar. Partner closely with product and infrastructure leadership on roadmap and direction. Continuous hands-on technical deliverables in the most critical areas. What We're Looking For 14+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems. Demonstrated track record of defining and delivering platform-scale technical initiatives. Expert-level knowledge of streaming and/or batch data

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📍 Germany· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect (Specialist) to join our Applied Field Engineering team who can provide technical leadership in working with both technical and business executives in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a critical component of their enterprise data architecture and overall ecosystem. In this role you will work directly with the sales team to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business. You will leverage your expertise, best practices and reference architectures highlighting Snowflake’s Data Platform capabilities across data ingestion, transformation, and lakehouse workloads. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: Ap

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