Operational Excellence Manager

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 1 minute ago

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Polarise

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

🤝 B2B

Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • B2B

Polarise is a European sovereign AI infrastructure provider offering GDPR-compliant, "Made in Germany" GPU cloud and on-premises solutions for enterprise AI workloads. It provides dedicated GPU clusters, bare metal servers, private clouds, colocation, and high-density "AI Factories" optimized for large-scale training and inference using the latest NVIDIA Blackwell hardware. Polarise also offers an API-first GenAI platform, managed MLOps tooling, and developer integrations while emphasizing data sovereignty, EU jurisdiction, and enterprise-focused compliance and security.

📋 Description

• As an Operational Excellence Manager, you work closely with the COO to ensure that operational processes, strategic initiatives, and cross-functional projects are clearly structured and consistently executed. • You analyze workflows, identify bottlenecks, develop scalable standards, and actively drive key initiatives forward. • You are responsible for identifying process gaps, inefficiencies, and bottlenecks, and deriving concrete improvement measures as well as use cases for AI agents. • You design and document clear target processes, roles and responsibilities, handovers, and standards. • Setting up and managing project plans - including target state, scope, milestones, timelines, risks, and decision requirements - is part of your day-to-day work. • You facilitate alignment across departments and track actions, decisions, and open items. • You prepare decision-making materials, management updates, and structured communication for the COO and relevant stakeholders. • You support the development of a scalable operating system for the company’s next growth phase. • You help introduce the right tools, templates, dashboards, routines, and AI agents to improve transparency and execution speed.

🎯 Requirements

• You have experience in Operations, Operational Excellence, Consulting, Project Management, Process Management, or a comparable role in a dynamic environment. • You bring a strong understanding of scaling organizations, operational processes, interface management, and KPI-driven steering. • You stand out through your strong analytical and structuring skills, with the ability to quickly translate complex topics into clear decision-making and execution logic. • You have solid project management expertise, including roadmaps, milestones, risk management, and stakeholder communication. • You demonstrate a high level of execution strength, reliability, and ownership, and enjoy driving topics forward in a visible and impactful way. • You excel through strong communication skills and confidently collaborate with the COO, leadership team, and operational teams. • You are proficient with common tools for project management, documentation, data analysis, and reporting (e.g. Asana, Notion, Jira, Google Workspace, Excel/Sheets, or BI tools), and have already gained experience using AI agents in an organizational context. • Your personality is further characterized by: • A pragmatic, solution-oriented, and hands-on mindset. • A structured, reliable, and detail-oriented way of working, without losing sight of the bigger picture. • Strong communication skills and the ability to create impact even without formal authority. • Comfort in highly dynamic environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous starting points. • A strong motivation to help scale an organization by improving processes, clarifying projects, and driving focused execution.

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful work: Contribute to strengthening Europe’s technological independence in AI. • Real ownership: Enjoy a high degree of creative freedom, modern tools, and an environment that truly values great design. • Remote-first setup: Work in a way that genuinely supports your work–life balance. • Thoughtful onboarding: Including a welcome package, merch, and your preferred hardware (MacBook Pro or ThinkPad). • Room to grow: Shape and develop your role in directions that align with your strengths and interests.