AI Engagement Manager_3204

About the Job

As an AI Engagement Manager, you serve as the delivery interface between our AI Factory and Allianz Operating Entities (OEs). Partnering closely with Heads of IT (HoITs), Account Managers, and Local/Global service teams, you translate OE pain points into fundable delivery engagements and steer multiple projects in parallel. You proactively shape and secure demand by making AI Factory capabilities visible early, matching Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and reusable assets to real problems, and converting these into funded engagements before OEs look externally.

What You Do

• As the primary AI delivery interface for assigned OEs, you partner closely with HoITs, Account Managers, and Local/Global service teams to shape and execute demand.
• Qualify & shape OE/Group pain points into deliverable project charters, roadmaps, and business cases; converting qualified opportunities into funded engagements.
• Orchestrate multiple AI Factory engagements in parallel, transferring patterns, learnings, and reusable components (MVS reuse) across OEs.
• Ensure AI Factory capabilities are visible early through discovery workshops, value hypothesis mapping, and reuse assessments to accelerate time-to-value.
• Define right-sized deliverables and milestones; cut or adjust scope pragmatically to protect value, timelines, and budget.
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers to align backlog, delivery plan, risks, and dependencies; remove blockers and escalate with facts and options.
• Manage stakeholder communications and expectations across OE leadership, HoITs and service owners; ensure alignment from discovery to go-live.
• Own the build-to-run handover (including support models, SLAs/OLAs, runbooks, MLOps/monitoring) and maintain the OE relationship post go-live.

What You Bring

• Proven experience in steering IT delivery or IT programs and translating business problems into delivered software in large, matrix organizations ideally in insurance or other regulated environments. Knowledge of Allianz Group & Allianz Technology is a plus.
• Solid communication and stakeholder management with ability to influence and guide leadership through technical and decision making conversations through strategic roadmaps, milestones and refined scope of work when required.
• Experienced in demand shaping and delivery conversion: discovery, value hypothesis definition, scoping, solution framing, and turning opportunities into funded work (SoW/proposals).
• Advanced stakeholder management and communication skills across OE/HoIT leadership, technical teams, and security/compliance; ability to own relationships beyond delivery and into run.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, taking ownership, driving clarity in build-up environment to turn ideas into reality.
• A degree in business, management, technology, IT or related field.
• Fluent in English
• Solid knowledge of AI technologies, agentic principles and their practical use.

What We Offer:

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program, and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery, and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. Access to over 10,000 on-demand learning resources and programs, to support you in taking control of your career development.
• Access to the AYMC Sportpass with the opportunity to engage in various sports and fitness activities.
• Parking support, ensuring a seamless and stress-free commuting experience to and from the workplace.