Lead Project Manager (German speaker)

EngineersOfAI; Madrid; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Celonis Services is seeking a Lead Project Manager to drive end-to-end implementations of Celonis technology across large, strategic customers. You will articulate Celonis’ value and collaborate with Sales, Partners and Value Engineering to create statements of work during pre-sales.

You’ll help customers build enduring capabilities, identify additional Services needs, and ensure satisfaction throughout the engagement with Celonis.

Qualifications

• Client-facing Project Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformational customer programs, shape and define the project outcome and then steer towards it.
• Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers' requirements.
• Manage resources, schedule, scope and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery and maximise the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements.
• Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation. You will be their primary point of contact for product feature requests and escalation of support issues.
• Regularly communicate project status, covering key discussion items, action items, risks and issues. Keep projects up to date in the Celonis Professional Services Automation System to enable accurate and timely project and portfolio reporting.
• Proactively manage and escalate risks and issues internally to Celonis management and externally to customer project sponsors to minimize impact to project success.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team, including partner resources, to ensure Celonis methodology is being followed.
• Use your experience to contribute to the continual improvement of Celonis Services methods as well as the maturing field expertise and best practices.

Skills

Client-facing PM

Communication skills

Job description

Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world’s fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities—specifically our Process Intelligence Graph—to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

The Team

Celonis Services is the delivery engine of our Celonis Customer Organization, responsible for turning the Celonis platform into measurable, business-critical outcomes for our customers. In the AI era, our role has elevated: as AI agents like our own Apollo take on more of the technical build, our people focus on the work that drives real impact—understanding our customers' business-critical problems, designing the solutions that solve them, and quantifying the value delivered. Our Deployment Engineers and Deployment Architects pair deep domain and industry expertise with serious platform mastery and AI-augmented delivery, directing agentic systems while owning the judgment, architecture, and customer relationships that AI cannot replace. We deliver faster and smarter than ever, and we own the outcome: solution go-live, solution adoption, initial value realization support and the long-term success of our customers.

The Role

As a Lead Project Manager, you will support end-to-end implementations of Celonis’ technology across our largest and most strategic customers. You will articulate Celonis’ product positioning to customers and collaborate with Sales, Partners and Value Engineering to establish Celonis’ Services Value proposition and create statements of work with customers during the pre-sales phase.

In this role, you will assist customers in understanding how to build best practice and enduring capabilities, are responsible for identifying further Services needs by the customer whilst engaged and responsible for customer satisfaction throughout a customer's engagement with Celonis.

The work you’ll do:

• Lead complex transformational customer programs, shape and define the project outcome and then steer towards it.
• Planning, scheduling, and management of project timelines and activities from project kick-off through to training, ensuring each project is delivered on time and meets the customers' requirements.
• Manage resources, schedule, scope and budget on multiple projects by creating and maintaining detailed project plans that emphasize speed to delivery and maximise the efficient use of resources needed to meet the requirements.
• Collaboration with senior executives, process owners and technical teams within each customer to understand their goals, objectives and requirements and to ensure their successful implementation. You will be their primary point of contact for product feature requests and escalation of support issues.
• Regularly communicate project status, covering key discussion items, action items, risks and issues. Keep projects up to date in the Celonis Professional Services Automation System to enable accurate and timely project and portfolio reporting.
• Proactively manage and escalate risks and issues internally to Celonis management and externally to customer project sponsors to minimize impact to project success.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to the implementation team, including partner resources, to ensure Celonis methodology is being followed.
• Use your experience to contribute to the continual improvement of Celonis Services methods as well as the maturing field expertise and best practices.

The qualifications you need

• Client-facing Project Management experience in enterprise software implementations, managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Extensive experience in project management disciplines, including documenting and maintaining project plans, risk/issue/action logs, and driving problem resolution in partnership with customers and Celonis executives.
• Strong communication skills and a backgrou