What you'll do

• Nurture and Grow the Team: Coach and develop our team of Data Scientists and Analysts. You will foster a healthy, collaborative culture rooted in continuous learning, best practices, and practical business impact.
• Integrate AI into Everyday Work: Guide the team in adopting modern AI tools and methodologies to improve our daily workflows, while helping identify smart opportunities to leverage AI.
• Drive Pragmatic Execution: Manage the roadmap for data initiatives. You will keep a steady delivery pace, ensuring the team's output translates into clear, measurable value for Zenjob.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Data, Engineering and Business stakeholders to ensure we are building a collaborative, reliable, and accessible data ecosystem.
• Focus on What Matters: Help the team prioritize high-impact initiatives, ensuring we are solving mission-critical business problems rather than getting lost in the noise.

What you bring

• Team Leadership Experience: A proven track record of managing and developing data professionals (analysts and/or data scientists) in a fast-paced environment.
• An Open Mind Toward AI: Curiosity and practical experience with modern AI tools, with a clear view of how to use them to automate workflows and enhance analytical capabilities.
• Marketplace Intuition: Prior experience or a deep understanding of two-sided marketplace dynamics (supply, demand, and matching optimization) is highly valued.
• Strong Business Translation: The ability to bridge the gap between technical data work and business reality, turning complex analysis into simple, actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Solid Technical Foundations: A strong background in data modeling, analytical methodologies, and experimentation, combined with a highly pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Great Communication Skills: An empathetic communication style that allows you to influence stakeholders, build trust, and bring people along on the data journey.

What we offer

• Innovative mission: Together we create something new. Work in a dynamic set-up where you learn a lot and your every idea is heard.
• Unique team spirit: We can rely on each other blindly and celebrate all successes together as a team.
• Vacation: Recreation and further education is important, which is why we offer 28 days of paid vacation (increased by 1 day for every 2 calendar years of service with us, up to a maximum of 30 days), 1 day of special leave for community service, 5 days of paid educational leave, and the possibility of unpaid leave
• Hybrid working model: We love our brand new office in Prenzlauer Berg. But sometimes you need a little more flexibility. Zenjob’s flexible working model combines the best of both worlds, so you can work remotely up to 2 days / week (1 day, during the first 6 months, so we can guarantee you the best onboarding).
• Dog-lover: If you have a dog, feel free to bring it with you. We don’t bite and always have a bowl of water in our range of drinks
• Personal growth: Ongoing focus on your personal development (annual training budget of EUR 1000, mentoring opportunities, constant career development conversations)
• Healthy mind in a healthy body: With us you will receive a 30 EUR Urban Sports Club grant to keep you fit. In addition, we have a small sports room in the office ourselves.
• Always mobile: You will receive EUR 40 credit per month for NAVIT, a sustainable mobility tool for public transport, bike sharing and much more.
• Legendary Events: Quarterly team events, winter and summer parties, budget for birthdays and anniversaries of our employees