Senior AI Transformation Lead

Ali Aydi; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Resonance is an applied AI company building its Berlin hub to serve Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We’re hiring a Senior AI Transformation Lead to run our top engagements across the DACH region, owning relationships with C-suite and leading a team of transformation leads and AI engineers.

You will map core processes, identify AI-enabled economics, prototype workflows, build business cases, and guide adoption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in equivalent roles, including AI client engagements or transformation programmes.
• Senior operator with deep understanding of technology and AI tooling.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead top client engagements across DACH for Resonance.
• Own relationships with C-suite leaders, PE sponsors and management teams.
• Map business processes to identify AI-enabled economics and redesign workflows.

Skills

AI transformation

Client engagements

Leadership

German language

Project management

Prototype & tooling

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

TLDR: We’re looking for top 1%, high agency, AI-forward transformation leads to be part of our early team at Resonance in Berlin. We have recently raised one of the largest ever European seed rounds, with investment from Anthropic and Hg Capital, to deploy AI into the economy and rebuild businesses for the AI era. You’ll work at the frontier and solve real problems in an environment that champions ownership, autonomy and innovation at pace.

Who we are

Resonance is an applied AI company. We have recently raised one of the largest ever European seed rounds, with investment from Anthropic and Hg Capital. Our mission is to close the AI diffusion gap and rebuild businesses for the AI era. We're looking to hire Europe’s elite AI talent, and we're building our Berlin hub to serve clients across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Why now

We believe the economic diffusion of AI is the major challenge of the next decade. Foundation models are advancing far faster than organisations can absorb them; the bottleneck is embedding AI deeply into the core processes of a company to drive an inflection in pace and create organisational advantage. Europe is falling behind on AI, and we exist to help its businesses build real, defensible advantage from it rather than simply adopting it.

The role

As a Senior AI Transformation Lead in Berlin, you’ll run our most ambitious client engagements across DACH. You’ll own relationships with C-suite leaders, PE sponsors and management teams, and lead a team of transformation leads and AI engineers. You’ll map how a business runs its key processes, find where AI fundamentally changes the economics, and redesign them agentic-first rather than bolting AI onto today’s process. You’ll prototype the new workflows yourself with Claude Code or similar, build the business case, and lead the change through to the people who have to adopt it. Every engagement starts with a value case and ends with the metric that moved in the client’s P&L. As one of our first 100 and one of our first leads in Berlin, you’ll also coach your team, turn each engagement into playbooks the next team starts from, and help shape how Resonance hires, operates and grows in DACH.

What we’re looking for: You’re a senior operator, typically with 5+ years of experience in equivalent roles, including running AI client engagements or transformation programmes end to end. You might be a senior consultant, engagement manager or associate partner at a top-tier strategy firm, a VP or Director on a PE value creation team, an AI director, or an operator who has led a transformation from inside a business. You’re a builder with a deep understanding of technology. You don’t need to write production code, but you use AI every day, prototype with new models and tools the day they land, and know where to challenge your engineering counterparts. Just as important, senior executives trust you with their most important outcomes, you frame hard trade-offs clearly, and you bring resistant organisations through change. We want both in one person. You have extreme agency, operate with urgency, and have consistently been among the very top performers of your peers. PE portfolio or value creation experience, operating experience in software or services, and German for client work in DACH are a plus. If you don’t tick every box, apply anyway.

What we offer: Competitive total compensation plus equity. Frontier AI work with real stakes, driving tangible outcomes for consequential companies. A team built to be one of the most talent-dense in Europe, and the autonomy to shape how the firm delivers and grows in Berlin as an early leader. A chance to help close Europe’s AI gap, moving European businesses to the right side of the productivity chasm.

Logistics: Berlin, 3+ days a week in the office or at client sites, mostly in DACH and Europe. English is our working language; German is a plus. We can sponsor visas for eligible candidates, start dates are flexible, and we're open to people relocating to Berlin.

We hire people from every background and judge them on what they've built. If you don't tick every box, apply anyway.

Resonance is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. If you need adjustments at any stage, tell us and we'll make them.