Senior Technical Program Manager - AI (d/f/m)

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
Bring your drive. Shape our AI future.
At Personio, we're embedding AI into our culture - from internal tooling to the way we onboard, train, and deliver value to customers. We're looking for a proactive, pragmatic AI Program Manager to shape the roadmap, accelerate delivery, and drive grassroots adoption of AI across our business.
You'll be the first of your kind at Personio: sitting in Data & Systems - Strategy & Ops, influencing stakeholders across every function, and helping us turn big ideas into real, impactful programs.
What You'll Do

• Shape and own Personio's AI roadmap by connecting strategic vision with real, high-impact business use cases, ensuring alignment with company objectives and evolving priorities.
• Drive the full lifecycle of AI initiatives- from identifying opportunities and building business cases, to planning, execution, rollout, and adoption - collaborating closely with product, data, engineering, systems, and legal teams.
• Champion AI adoption and enablement by designing and delivering onboarding, training, and upskilling programs that empower every employee to use AI confidently and responsibly.
• Facilitate the AI Council to ensure company-wide alignment, transparency, and prioritization on what gets built next and how we work with AI.
• Establish and track ambitious OKRs and key metrics for all AI programs, surfacing risks early, reporting on progress, and driving continuous improvement.
• Embed compliance, ethics, and security into every AI initiative, working with legal, data, and security teams to ensure responsible and safe adoption of AI across the business.
• Stay ahead of AI trends and best practices, bringing innovative ideas and external perspective to keep Personio at the forefront of practical, value-driven AI adoption.
• Act as a cross-functional connector and communicator, ensuring all stakeholders-from executives to end users-are informed, engaged, and invested in Personio's AI journey.

What You Need to Succeed

• 8+ years program or project management experience, in SaaS, technology, or consulting, with a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception through to adoption.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts and trends - you can confidently engage with both technical and non-technical teams about LLMs, prompt engineering, and practical business use cases.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing senior leaders, collaborating across business units, and aligning diverse teams around a shared vision.
• Proactive, organized, and resilient, with a passion for technology and a drive to make a tangible impact at scale.
• Experience working with data, engineering, or systems teams, with a solid understanding of how technology and data-driven initiatives drive business value.
• Comfort working across ambiguity - you bring structure where there's none and drive things forward independently.
• Bonus: hands on exposure to data science, analytics or AI/ML teams.

Why Personio

• Join our AI journey early: You'll help define what a top of class AI culture looks like.
• Visible role: You'll coordinate across multiple departments ,SLT and execs.
• Berlin-based with hybrid flexibility (we prefer in-office for this one).
• Supportive leadership, clear ownership, and strong backing from the AI Council.
• Competitive compensation, pre-IPO equity, 28+ holidays, generous development budget.

What Success Looks Like

• Month 3: You have the AI council sync up and running, scoped and rolling out project plans for initial AI roadmap items, and a well established grassroots enablement.
• Month 6: Roadmap and 2-year vision in place, with adoption metrics, council cadence, and cross-functional delivery under way.
• Month 12: You've helped launch multiple AI initiatives, trained teams, and ensured AI's embedded in the way we work.

Ready to shape the future of AI at Personio? Apply now and help us pave the road for intelligent HR.