Business Strategy Principal in Germany

Location : Come and join us in Hamburg. Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of software engineers focused on our Rider domain — the customer-facing app and platform that millions of riders use every day. Your team will play a pivotal role in bringing Lyft's product experience to Europe, adapting and building the systems that let riders book rides seamlessly across all markets This critical role ensures team’s alignment with product and business strategy, while driving efficient delivery of features. You will foster an environment of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous individual development, ultimately maximizing business impact across all Freenow markets through innovation. Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate colleagues who strive for excellence and enjoy their work. Are you ready for your next ride? YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: Team Performance & Delivery: Within the frame of quarterly goals and company strategy, lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus. You inspire innovation to disrupt incumbents. People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence in building innovative customer and driver support solutions. You get to build a team from the ground up. Technical Ownership: In collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals, lead technical decision-making for the support systems. Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions, particularly the large-scale syste

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

Location : Come and join us either in Berlin or Hamburg! Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. One of our core goals for 2026 is the complete digitalization of the European taxi market. We are partnering with local fleets to provide them with our advanced Dispatch and Fleet Management software completely for free, helping them cut costs, defend against ride-hailing giants, and thrive. We are looking for an empathetic, relentless, and hands-on Sales Manager to be the face of this initiative! YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: Prospect, engage, travel and pitch our Dispatch tool to SMB taxi companies. You will be the primary catalyst for transitioning legacy fleets into modern, connected partners Guide fleet owners and head dispatchers through the fear of operational change Act as the voice of our partners. You will gather on-the-ground feedback about our software and collaborate directly with our Product and Strategy teams to help "co-build" the ultimate solution TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE: 3-5 years in B2B Business Development, Sales, Account Executive roles. Backgrounds in mobility, logistics, or selling SaaS to SMBs are highly preferred Proven track record of managing a B2B pipeline and handling objections. You understand that even when a product is free, you still have to expertly "sell" the time, effort, and operational shift required to adopt it Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust and long-term relationships Ability to deeply understand how a partner's business operates on a procedural level. You are adept at guiding new partners step-by-step through the transition, ensuring they smoothly adopt new software and daily routines You view travel not as a chore, but as an essential part of the job. You are comfortable being on the road for a significant portion of your time (up to 40-50%) to meet partners exactly where they operate Fluency in German and English is required

We’re looking for a hardworking, driven individual with superb energy, passion and initiative for new business acquisition. The Enterprise Account Executive role focuses exclusively on formulating and executing a sales strategy within an assigned territory , resulting in revenue growth and new customer acquisition. This role can be based out of our Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt office or remotely in the Germany region. Impact you will have Proactively, identify, qualify and close a sales pipeline Strategically prospect into CTOs, Engineering/IT Leaders, & technical end users Build strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities Partner with our Solution Architects and work closely with the Professional Services team to achieve customer satisfaction Work closely with the enterprise ecosystem partner sales and channel partner to maximize deal sizes Participate in our sales enablement trainings, including our comprehensive Sales Bootcamp, sophisticated sales training, and leadership and development programs What you bring to the table 3+ years field experience of quota-carrying experience in a fast-paced and competitive market with a focus on closing net new logos and expanding accounts. Demonstrated ability to open new accounts and sell horizontally across the organization into different business units A proven track record of overachievement and hitting sales targets Ability to articulate the business value of complex enterprise technology Co-selling with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP and Azure) and large GSIs (Accenture, KPMG, etc) Skilled in building business champions Driven and competitive. Possess a strong desire to be successful Must live in territory and speak German Things we love You are passionate about growing your career in the largest market in software (database) Previous Sales Methodology training (e.g. MEDDIC, SPIN, Challenger Sales) Familiarity with databases, develops and cloud native infrastructure a plus Why join

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We’re looking for a Director, CPG Sales to lead our monetization efforts for the vertical in DACH. Reporting to the Managing Director, Sales (DACH), you'll be responsible for building Pinterest’s CPG business in one of Europe's largest markets. You will be working closely with cross-functional partners to drive business results for our clients while delivering growth. You will be managing a team of senior sellers and be part of the Senior Leadership team in DACH. You will be representing Pinterest externally and be our voice in the industry on relevant topics. This is a full-time position based in Germany. What you’ll do: Lead our sales strategy and execution for CPG in DACH. Lead the DACH CPG Management Team by building, training and motivating a high performing, diverse sales team based on an inclusive, positive culture Develop market a

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the Role This role is focused on driving new and expanded advertising revenue and ensuring successful business results for advertisers. You will own the full sales cycle — from prospecting to deal closure, developing long-term commercial partnerships to help advertisers achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. You’ll work closely with Customer Success Managers and key cross-functional partners to ensure advertisers achieve successful outcomes after the sale, while maintaining primary ownership of revenue growth and commercial strategy. This role is based in our Munich office. 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: Prospect, qualify, and close new advertising opportunities, leading the full sales cycle from initial engagement through contract execution. Own and achieve a defined revenue target within an assigned territory or vertical. Develop and execute structured account plans to drive advertiser ROI and long-term revenue growth. Build and maintain relationships with senior-level advertising decision-makers, delivering strategic guidance and actively gathering their feedback. Structure and negotiate complex commercial agreements. Quantify opportunities through clear, data-driven business cases aligned to advertiser objectives. Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Policy, and Operations to support complex deals. Partner with

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 Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help retail customers across UKI & North reimagine customer experience, store and supply-chain operations, merchandising, marketing, and enterprise productivity with AI. This role can be based in Munich or Berlin. In Munich, we use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In Berlin, this will be a remote based role for now. In this role, you'll: Manage a small number of key retail accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan Lead large enterprise retail customers’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a consumption revenue target Manage consumption revenue forecasts Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders Closely monitor the r

Location: Berlin or Hamburg At Freenow by Lyft, we are on a mission to empower smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Following Lyft's recent acquisition of Freenow in Europe, we are seeking an experienced leader to drive growth in our German and Austrian operations, serving as the critical bridge between global strategy and local execution. You will excel at managing relationships up and down the organization, ensuring central roadmaps align with German market realities while driving hyper-local growth. Reporting directly to the VP Operations, Europe, you will steward the Freenow by Lyft business across Germany and Austria, serving as a key driver of local market growth. In this role, you will collaboratively steer the P&L alongside regional and central leadership, combining strategic vision with hands-on operational oversight. As a strong representative for the Freenow by Lyft brand, you will align the needs of different customer segments while building and managing regulatory and stakeholder relationships that support our local operations and long-term growth. YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: You will play a key role in driving our German and Austrian operations. This role combines strategic leadership, commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and hands-on execution to support Freenow by Lyft's growth in the market. P&L Management & Commercial Acumen: Collaboratively steer the German and Austria P&L alongside regional leadership, proactively negotiating for the resources and investment needed to fuel local growth. Collaborate with the Marketplace Performance team to steer supply and demand, leveraging understanding of unit economics to optimize the dynamic marketplace. Identify and develop new revenue streams from concept to realization, including growth pillars such as Medical and Dispatch solutions. Operational Excellence & Growth: Lead the "Local Growth Team" model, inspiring a high-

Location : Hamburg or Berlin! At Freenow by Lyft, we are on a mission to empower smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. We are looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to drive financial planning, business casing, and performance tracking across our dynamic growth segments and key strategic initiatives. In this role, you will act as a core financial business partner to the segment leaders and business owners accountable for driving these growth levers, providing the analytical rigor needed to guide investment decisions and strategy. Your scope extends beyond our core marketplace model to encompass B2B SaaS solutions and other business models. Beyond commercial FP&A, you will play an active role in M&A activities by supporting buy-side due diligence and post-acquisition financial integration. YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: Lead structured financial modeling and business casing for growth segments and strategic projects in close collaboration with business owners. Act as a key finance partner to segment leaders and business owners, providing objective analysis to inform senior leadership discussions on resource allocation and major investment decisions. Establish continuous ROI tracking frameworks and conduct routine performance reviews to ensure capital efficiency across all growth levers. Work alongside the Data team to define and implement consistent KPI tracking, reporting frameworks, and performance dashboards. Collaborate with the broader Commercial Finance team to build and maintain sustainable "shadow P&L" reporting for growth segments (prospectively utilizing Anaplan). Support buy-side M&A projects by assessing target financials and evaluating business models within the context of our own operational data to complement external due diligence advisory work. Structure and drive the post-acquisition financial integration of newly acquired businesses from an FP&A perspective, ensuring

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The DACH Enterprise team is at the forefront of driving revenue and growth across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As trusted business partners, we work with the most ambitious market leaders and high-growth innovators — from Personio, FREE NOW, N26 to Westwing — helping them build the financial infrastructure that powers their next stage of growth. We're known for our product expertise, rigorous thinking, and user-first approach to problem-solving. Stripe's financial infrastructure is the engine that unlocks new revenue streams, automates complex local compliance, and drives global expansion for the region's most prominent businesses. This is a pivotal moment for Stripe in DACH — the market opportunity is significant, and our team serves as a critical source of user feedback and market intelligence, with direct influence on the product roadmap and growth strategy. We're a diverse, international team that values collaboration and curiosity, and we're looking for someone who's eager to share knowledge and keep learning. What you’ll do As an Enterprise Account Executive you will drive Stripe’s enterprise growth engine by building and expanding deep, long-term relationships with large and very large customers and turning them into high-impact Stripe advocates. You’ll own a named portfolio of strategic accounts and high-potential targets, serving as the primary executive point of contact for senior stakeholders across business, product, and te

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

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Head of EMEA Public Sector (Germany) Why this role? As our Head of Sales EMEA Public Sector you will spearhead year-over-year revenue growth by developing and executing on enterprise level PUBSEC customer acquisition strategies across the region. You will drive long-term success through strategic development, coaching, and expanding Cohere’s presence in EMEA public sector, anchored in Defense. In this pivotal leadership role, you will cultivate and guide our EMEA PUBSEC sales team to exceed revenue targets and organizational goals, while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. Candidates must be based in Germany to be considered for this career opportunity. As our Head of EMEA PUBSEC you will: Develop, execute, and lead a comprehensive go-to-market growth strategy and sales plan for EMEA PUBSEC, driving revenue growth and market expansion working with the North American Public Sector and other regional sales teams. Provide sales and operational leadership to Cohere’s EMEA PUBSEC sales team, ensuring alignment with company objectives and priorities. Partner with Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to synchronize s

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why This Role? As our VP Sales, EMEA you will spearhead year-over-year revenue growth by developing and executing on enterprise level customer acquisition strategies across the region. You will drive long-term success through strategic development, coaching, and expanding Cohere’s presence in EMEA. In this pivotal leadership role, you will cultivate and guide our enterprise sales team to exceed revenue targets and organizational goals, while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. Candidates must be based in Germany to be considered for this career opportunity. As our VP Sales, EMEA you will: Develop, execute, and lead a comprehensive go-to-market growth strategy and strategic sales plan for EMEA, driving revenue growth and market expansion. Provide strategic sales and operational leadership to Cohere’s cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with company objectives Serve as the primary representative of Cohere in EMEA, championing the company’s vision, products, and services. Partner with global Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to synchronize sales efforts with broader company goals. Represent Cohere at in

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

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Ads Solutions team partners closely with advertisers to deeply understand their businesses and needs, helping inform the development of products and solutions that drive meaningful revenue growth and long-term success on the platform—while maintaining strong standards for user trust and platform integrity. About the Role We’re looking for a Customer Success Manager to support advertisers in onboarding, launching, and growing on OpenAI’s advertising platform. You will manage a portfolio of partners and serve as a trusted advisor, helping them achieve their business objectives while ensuring a strong and responsible experience on our platform. This role sits at the intersection of relationship management, strategy, and execution. You’ll work closely with Sales to drive long-term partner growth and with internal teams to continuously improve the advertiser experience. This role is based in our Munich office. 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: Own relationships with a portfolio of advertising partners, serving as their primary point of contact. Guide advertisers through onboarding and campaign launches to ensure strong adoption of OpenAI’s ads products. Analyze campaign performance and provide clear, actionable recommendations to improve outcomes. Identify opportunities to expand partnerships through increased product adoption and incremental investment. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Analytics, Policy, and Operations to resolve issues and enhance platform value. Surface advertiser feedback and insights to inform product improvements and long-term strategy. Help build scalable processes and best practices that support the growth of OpenAI’s advertising ecosystem. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5-10+ ye