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ZAZalando

Engineering Manager - AI Innovation(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior
AI/ML

Shaping AI strategy and driving delivery of AI-enabled products for consumer journeys. Proven engineering leadership and direct people management experience required. Employee shares program and 40% off fashion and beauty products.

Requirements

  • Proven engineering leadership experience
  • Direct people management experience
  • Track record of building high-performing teams
  • Strong backend foundation
  • Experience with distributed systems at scale
  • Experience with microservices architectures
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience with reliability patterns
  • Experience with message queues/streams
  • Familiarity with JVM-based backends
  • Familiarity with Python
  • Ability to reason about APIs
  • Ability to reason about data stores
  • Ability to reason about infrastructure
  • AI product engineering mindset
  • Ability to translate AI possibilities into software
  • Understanding of production systems
  • Familiarity with ML/LLM fundamentals
  • Understanding of embeddings
  • Understanding of vector search
  • Understanding of RAG
  • Understanding of evaluation/metrics
  • Understanding of prompt and workflow design
  • Understanding of latency/cost tradeoffs
  • Understanding of experimentation
  • Value observability
  • Use of metrics/logs/tracing
  • Definition of SLOs
  • Building diagnosable systems
  • Building supportable systems
  • Systems thinker
  • Collaborator
  • Ability to hold context across teams
  • Ability to align stakeholders
  • Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs

Tasks

  • Shape AI strategy and execution principles
  • Drive delivery of AI-enabled experiences
  • Build decisioning and orchestration logic
  • Integrate assistant frameworks securely
  • Develop high-load, real-time APIs
  • Ensure operational excellence and readiness
  • Implement responsible AI practices
  • Hire and develop engineering talent
  • Foster a culture of ownership and excellence

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • microservices
  • cloud-native architectures
  • CI/CD
  • message queues/streams
  • JVM
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Scala
  • Python
  • APIs
  • ML
  • LLM
  • embeddings
  • vector search
  • RAG
  • metrics
  • logs
  • tracing
  • SLOs

Benefits

Competitive Pay

  • Employee shares program

Corporate Discounts

  • 40% off fashion and beauty products
  • 30% off Zalando Lounge
  • Discounts from external partners

Purpose-Driven Work

  • 2 paid volunteering days

Flexible Working

  • Hybrid working model
  • Up to 60% remote per week

Workation & Sabbatical

  • Work from abroad for up to 30 days

More Vacation Days

  • 27 days of vacation

Other Benefits

  • Relocation assistance

Family Support

  • Family services

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Health and wellbeing options
  • Gympass

Mental Health Support

  • Mental health support
  • Mental health coaching

Learning & Development

  • Training platform

Mentorship & Coaching

  • Biannual peer-to-peer review
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