Hybrid Engineering Manager – AI, Agentic Product

at happyhotel

• Job title: Engineering Manager – AI, Agentic Product
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Offenburg, Germany

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading AI and Agentic product teams at happyhotel. Focusing on team building, leadership and product execution in a dynamic startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Team building & scaling
• You will establish the new “Agentic Application” unit. In the first phase you will coordinate development with external partners and freelancers while simultaneously recruiting the internal team.
• You are responsible for the entire hiring process (interview loops, case design, final decisions).
• People leadership
• You act as a coach and mentor for your teams. You handle feedback, individual development plans, and foster a healthy team dynamic.
• You create structures where engineering quality and reliable delivery align.
• Execution & processes
• You establish a planning and release cycle system suited to a startup.
• You ensure ML experiments and frontend features integrate sensibly and that we learn quickly through measurability (e.g., A/B tests).
• Product focus
• You work closely with the product team on the roadmap and make pragmatic trade-off decisions between UX, technical risk, and speed.

Requirements

• Background: You have experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead with a clear focus on people and processes.
• Builder mentality: You are motivated to grow a team from 0 to 1 and to establish processes where they are missing.
• Communication: You can mediate between ML experts, app developers, and product managers—without buzzwords, but with clarity and solution orientation.
• Stakeholder management: You have experience not only managing external service providers but leading them operationally so that no technical chaos emerges. You know how to combine external speed with internal quality standards.
• Languages: Fluent German and English.

Benefits

• True greenfield: You will build a completely new product in the area of agentic AI.
• A dynamic startup environment with lots of creative freedom and flat hierarchies
• A motivated, helpful team that aims to achieve big things together
• Equity: We offer an attractive employee equity plan (ESOP).
• Personal training budget and regular development reviews
• Flexible working hours and remote work
• Attractive additional perks such as Hansefit, bike leasing, company events, workations, support for work–life balance, and many other benefits!