Agile Manager (m/f/d) | Legal AI Tech Start-up | Hybrid

The AI Startup Xayn develops Noxtua, Europe's leading sovereign Legal AI. The legally compliant and competent AI helps legal professionals to research legal issues and review, and draft legal documents. The GDPR-compliant Legal AI meets the high professional and data protection requirements for lawyers (§ 203 Penal Code, § 43e Federal Lawyers' Act) and is certified according to ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, 42001, and BSI C5. The product version Beck-Noxtua is based on the exclusive data of Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.Beck and Germany’s largest business law firm CMS.

Emerging from a 2017 research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the Berlin-based Legal-Tech company, formerly known as Xayn, boasts extensive experience in developing highly efficient GDPR-compliant AI solutions. Strategic partners, including Germany's leading legal publisher C.H.Beck, the High-Performance Computing specialist Northern Data, Germany's largest business law firm and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua CMS, as well as the world's largest law firm Dentons, have invested a total of € 80.7 million in the German startup as part of its Series B funding round.

Your Mission

As 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.

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

Requirements

• 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.)

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