Senior Business Intelligence Manager (m/d/f)

Your Mission:

Join us in providing OTC access to the European energy trading market!

Join us as a Senior Business Intelligence Manager and leave your mark in re-defining how energy traders work! This is a hands-on, individual contributor (IC) role focused on defining and executing our data strategy.You will have a real impact while working together with internal stakeholders across the organization to generate data-based insights to steer and develop our business more effectively, assuming responsibility and growing within our quickly scaling start-up.

Your Responsibilities / What you’ll do:

The Senior BI Manager will be the driving force behind the transformation of our data platform, shifting the organization from static reporting to predictive, AI-driven decision-making and advanced data insights. This role reports to the Head of Data and is focused on technical leadership and execution, not people management.

I. Strategic Data & AI Leadership

• Roll-out Advanced Self-Service: Define and execute strategy for utilizing Gen AI and Agentic BI/LLMs to create conversational/intuitive self-service capabilities across the organization.
• Establish the Semantic Layer: Take ownership of modeling and implementing a robust semantic data layer (e.g., using technologies like dbt or similar) to ensure consistent definition, calculation, and quality of all business metrics and KPIs.
• Drive Data Governance: Establish and enforce comprehensive data governance standards, policies, and processes across departments to ensure data quality, compliance, security, and integrity, treating data as a critical company asset.
• Strategic Sparring Partner: Act as a strategic partner to executive leadership and department heads to define, standardize, and implement effective, measurable KPIs that align with business strategy. Guide drill-downs into metrics to offer a data-based approach to solutions.

II. Team Leadership & Cultural Enablement

• Elevate Team Capability: Provide hands-on guidance or support to junior team members, working together in modern Data Science, ML operationalization, and advanced analytics techniques.
• Foster a Data Culture: Actively foster and promote a robust data-driven culture and data self-service across the organization, providing the necessary training, tools, and documentation for departmental users to access and interpret standardized data independently.
• Resource Management: Drive day-to-day operations of the BI/Data Science team (currently 3 people); align OKRs, manage workloads, and ensure timely, high-quality execution of strategic data projects.

III. Technical Execution & Data Science

• Advanced Analytics & AI/ML: Personally contribute to and oversee the development of advanced Data Science projects, including training, deploying, and maintaining regression, time-series forecasting, and clustering models that deliver predictive and prescriptive insights.
• Agentic BI Implementation: Lead the evaluation, piloting, and training of Agentic BI/LLMs on our proprietary data to enable non-technical users to query and analyze data using natural language.

Your profile / What you’ll need:

• 5+ years work experience in business intelligence, ideally in a start-up/tech/software environment
• Excellent knowledge of data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI etc
• Experience with conversational/agentic BI tools (specific experience with Thoughtspot a plus)
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases; experience with AWS and BigQuery a plus
• Good knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets
• Ideally good knowledge of data analysis with Python/R and experience working with data scientists
• Working knowledge of data pipelines
• Developed people skills with experience in stakeholder management
• Business acumen - you can bridge between BI and other departments 
• Strong team player with low-ego personality 
• Strives both at conceptual work and detailed implementation
• Graduate in business informatics, business, economics, computer science or related quantitative field

Our Offer / What You'll Get

• Entrepreneurial company culture with flat hierarchies
• Competitive Remuneration Scheme
• Learning & Development: a Personal Development Plan along with especially allocated budget and 5 days off to further your personal & professional development
• Being part of our supportive, persistent, curious and fun culture!
• Joining a grown-up start-up in the SaaS/energy field
• Modern office spaces in the heart of Munich
• Hybrid work set-up, allowing you to combine working in the office with working from home
• State of the art Apple hardware and software
• Diverse, international team that celebrates differences
• Free drinks, fruit, and coffee, special fitness offers and discount offers
• German classes
• Relocation assistance for international candidates