Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cofinity-X manages an open marketplace and services that support secure, standardized data exchange across the automotive value chain. The Project Manager leads publicly funded European AI research projects end to end, coordinating consortium partners, project finances, funding compliance, technical work plans and dissemination.
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end responsibility for our portfolio of large-scale, publicly funded European AI research projects, from kick-off to final reporting
- Steer all work packages across multiple projects: plan scope, milestones and deliverables, track progress and resolve dependencies between partners
- Manage multi-partner consortia of industrial companies, research institutions and associations across several EU member states
- Act as the primary contact for funding bodies and project management agencies, owning interim and final reports, change requests and proof of use
- Own project financials in close alignment with Finance, including budget planning, cost tracking, personnel planning and eligibility of costs
- Ensure compliance with national and European funding and state aid requirements, including documentation, dissemination and open-source obligations
- Work closely with our Machine Learning team to translate project objectives into technical work plans and make sure deliverables land on time and in quality
- Coordinate dissemination activities such as publications, open-source releases and events across the dataspace ecosystem (e.g. Catena-X)
- Identify project risks early, escalate where needed and drive mitigation
Skills
- 5+ years of project management experience, including at least 3 years in publicly funded R&D projects with multi-partner consortia (e.g. IPCEI)
- Solid knowledge of German and European funding frameworks and their financial rules (e.g. AGVO)
- Strong technical affinity: you can discuss AI, machine learning and data architectures with engineers at eye level, without writing code yourself
- Proven ability to run several complex workstreams in parallel with a high level of structure and reliability
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and comfort working with senior representatives from industry, research and public authorities
- Fluent German and English, written and spoken
- Ideally, you have already acted as consortium coordinator
- Experience with dataspaces
- A project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2)
Benefits
- Hybrid working model
- Balanced work-life balance with flexible working hours
- Annual training budget for continuous professional and personal development (1.500 EUR)
- Free choice of hardware
- Monthly lunch subsidy (up to 115 EUR)
- Deutschland Ticket and Job Bike for environmentally friendly mobility options
- Workation to work remotely from different locations within the EU
- We offer every employee a pensions scheme (bAV) with company sponsorship
- Regular team events to strengthen cohesion and foster a positive working atmosphere
- A modern office with an impressive view of the Cologne Cathedral
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