The role The Head of Customer Project Office is part of the company’s senior leadership team and responsible to manage project delivery teams and processes to optimize processes and achieve profitable growth of the company. Your tasks You will manage, grow and develop the customer project office team, including Project Managers as well as Project Engineering and Production Process Managers as well as the Labeling Partner manager You will ensure smooth collaboration of CPO with sales, product development and technical project teams. You will develop internal processes for project preparation, setup and execution phases. You will follow up on project KPIs and budgets. You will act as the escalation point for issues during projects. Interaction, Networking, internal/external contacts Closely collaborate with UAI CEO and peers in the leadership team and with other dSPACE organizations Lead customer communication in the steering level Engage with engineering partner companies to enhance delivery capabilities Be able to represent the company at external events. What will you need to be successful? Core competencies / soft skills Proven experience in managing complex B2B projects specially in automotive industry Able to drive development of standard processes Able to interact with stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization Strong business understanding Proven leadership skills Technical background to understand complex topics Curious, open to new ideas, and foster learning Education, job experience and special requirements Bachelor degree in business, technology or IT related field Minimum 10 years experience in relevant enterprise solution developers in technical or program / project management roles Minimum 5 years of leadership experience and stakeholders management Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus) What we offer A company where you can make a difference A crucial role in a young, dynamic, and fast-growing environment that fosters trust, respect, and personal growth. Being part of a German high tech success story on AD/ADAS and AI/ML. Competitive salary package, flexible working hours, hybrid working model. EGYM Wellpass. Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket. BusinessBike. Up to 30 Days Workation all around the world. About us Understand.ai was founded in 2017 with the vision in mind to make AI accessible to everyone. To achieve this goal, we’re solving the data problem of AI. The tooling and services provided by understand.ai enable our customers to get the right data, at the right quality and right quantity, to make production-grade AI products a reality. Join us to become part of this journey Headquartered in Karlsruhe, our team has grown to more than 70 employees since 2017 and is part of the dSPACE Group since 2019. dSPACE is a market innovator and leader in providing solutions and systems for embedded controller software development in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Manufacturing industries. Founded in Germany in 1988, dSPACE employs over 2200 people worldwide, who are committed to making the embedded controls software development process more efficient through innovative tools and services. Due to our success in growing customer numbers and projects, we need to scale our structure and team sizes in order to continue providing excellent service. Our goal is to make our customers happy and our employees happy. We offer a variety of benefits, but more importantly, we offer an interesting & meaningful work environment and responsibilities, on which you can work with a great level of autonomy. We can’t wait to see what kind of future you choose to build at UAI - so click on the “apply for this position” button and together create the gold standard for ground truth data for autonomous transportation