Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.
About the team:
Celonis Labs is the innovation engine of Celonis: an independent, rapid-innovation unit within Celonis focused on pioneering entirely new business models and novel platform capabilities. Merging the radical agility, clean-slate freedom, and speed of a pre-seed startup with the massive market leverage of a global tech giant, we turn wild hypotheses into high-impact, market-ready realities. This is a unique environment where high-agency builders have the mandate, resources, and speed required to turn blank-canvas ideas into next-generation enterprise solutions.
The role
As Innovation Lead, you will shape the direction of innovation across Celonis Labs, creating and championing a diverse portfolio that spans exploratory prototypes, new business models, and partner solutions. Your mandate is to scan the horizon for disruptive high-potential opportunities and build compelling cases that get stakeholders and teams alike excited to build the next big thing.
But getting people excited is only the spark.
Bringing a founder’s mindset, you have the radical autonomy to hunt for paradigm-shifting concepts, backing your vision with intellectual rigor and sound hypotheses.
The work you’ll do
- Source and curate a rich pipeline of disruptive ideas, applying first-principles thinking to isolate high-potential opportunities past the “cool idea” phase and pitch them to win the backing required to activate them as active Labs projects
- Rigorously pressure-test your core assumptions around market feedback, technical feasibility, and strategic fit to either ruthlessly prune weak ideas early, or seamlessly transition your concepts into execution
- Command executive attention and skip the slide-deck graveyard. Leverage AI capabilities and rapid mock-ups to bring abstract concepts to life instantly, turning a theory into a tangible, interactive experience that cuts through the noise and commands attention from our customers
- Go straight to the decision-makers within our massive global network of Fortune 500 customers to build your own high-trust advisory circle. Cultivate a tight feedback loop for radical ideas with these visionary allies, establishing the high-level buy-in and trusted sounding board needed to shape and validate disruptive concepts in absolute confidence
The qualifications you need
- Hands-on startup experience and a proven track record of building and launching products from scratch within the B2B software domain—whether as a venture-backed founder, co-founder, founder's associate, or intrapreneurial product manager
- A demonstrated ability to bring abstract concepts to life alongside cross-functional teams rallying them behind a shared vision through product empathy and collaborative drive
- Strong trend acumen and technical literacy that gives you a natural foresight for emerging technological shifts and a deep empathy for software architecture
- High comfort with radical ambiguity, thriving in unstructured, rapidly shifting environments where, instead of waiting for a map, you think like a founder and are excited by the opportunity to draw the map yourself
- An impatient bias for action and a "can-do" attitude, demonstrating exceptionally high agency and leading by example to actively getting things done and drive momentum
- Exceptional communication and persuasion skills, with comfort pitching and building C-level relationships in both English and German. You build trust through clear, compelling narratives whether public speaking on a stage, inspiring executives, or whiteboarding with engineers
- Resilience and brutal intellectual honesty guided by data over personal ego. You pressure-test your own assumptions, kill weak concepts early, and treat a customer's "no" as a constructive metric and a direct path to the right "yes."
Why you'll love working here
- True Autonomy: We despise corporate theater and micromanagement. You will have the absolute freedom to explore wild, clean-sheet ideas, design your own discovery cycles, and call your own shots on where to focus your energy.
- Zero to One, Constantly: If you love the thrill of the starting line, the rigor of proving hypotheses wrong, and hate the monotony of maintaining legacy software, this is your paradise
- Real Resource Backing: No bootstrapping required. You find the sparks; we have a talented builder team ready to build the fire
What Celonis can offer you:
- Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations.
- Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
- Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment.
- Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration.
- Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
- Holistic Well-being: Prioritize your health with subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance.
- Drive Sustainability: Participate in annual Impact Days, where you receive paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes with your local office, or virtually.
- Global Inclusion & Belonging: Find community through our Inclusion Think Tank and participate in our annual Inclusion Days, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
- Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where our core values—Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future—drive every decision.
About Us:
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI, empowering organizations to analyze, design, and operate AI-driven processes. The Celonis Platform is powered by the Celonis Context Model, which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence to create a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can understand — turning AI’s operational blind spots into operational clarity. Industry-leading companies around the world trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.
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