Agile Manager (m/f/d) | Legal AI Tech Start-up | Hybrid
Permanent employee, Full or part-time · Berlin
Our offer for youAs an Agile Manager, you will play a key role in improving development efficiency, optimizing collaboration between teams, and ensuring agile processes align with our privacy-first approach. Your expertise will help our tech and product teams work smarter, iterate faster, improve and maintain a stable development velocity.
YOUR TEAM
The Tech team consists of around 10 individuals who work remotely or at the office in Berlin city center. Besides the development team, Xayn’s technical lead and an external consultant team handle various tasks related to providing Xayn’s development team with the necessary technical environment, ensuring the smooth operation and scalability of Xayn’s AI applications.
OUR BENEFITS
Working hours: Flexible working hours: Full-time (32- 40h/week).
Vacation: 26 days + December 24th & 31st off
Hybrid: Work from home for up to three days per week
Company Discounts: e.g. Urban Sports Club Membership
Equipment: Laptop (Lenovo or Mac), second screen, keyboard etc.
Office: we have a beautiful office in the heart of Berlin
Your responsibilities
Enhance development efficiency: Streamline agile processes to accelerate AI product releases
Improve team dynamics: Foster collaboration between developers, data scientists, and product teams
Support Tech Leads: Facilitate Scrum routines, process management, and relieve tech leadership from operational bottlenecks
Incident management optimization: Improve response times and efficiency in managing incidents
Scaling agile processes: Adapt methodologies to support company growth and multiple development teams
About you
Work Permit: Germany
Language skills: English (C2 level), German optional
Agile Transformation: Proven track record in Agile Transformation & Scaling in software development related organizations, ideally through the different stages of company evolution (Start-up, Scale Up , Corporate) Experience in restructuring teams, optimizing sprints, and improving meeting structures
Agile Frameworks: Strong background in Scrum or Kanban in product-driven and data-focused environments
Tools and Technical Savviness: Hands-on expertise with agile tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Notion, etc.)
About us
The AI startup Xayn develops Noxtua, Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI. Noxtua helps lawyers analyze and draft legal documents and research legal questions while being legally competent and compliant. Hosted in the EU, Noxtua meets high standards of confidentiality in handling client data, professional secrecy (e.g. Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers), and European data protection. Noxtua is powered by specialized proprietary AI models. The models are trained with high-quality legal data provided by the Legal AI Alliance which the tech startup Xayn initiated with the international business law firm CMS. This makes Noxtua the secure, independent, and specialized European Legal AI.
The Berlin-based AI company Xayn was born out of research at Oxford University and Imperial College London by Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Michael Huth. Founded in 2017, Xayn’s academic vision remains, with a workforce comprised of approx. 30% PhDs. The startup has received investment funding of 19.5 million EURO from Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Earlybird, and Dominik Schiener.
