Associate Director AI Transformation & Enablement (m/f/d)

As Associate Director AI – Transformation & Enablement (m/f/d), you are the central driving force behind our AI strategy. You don’t build PowerPoint slides — you build something real. You work directly with executive management, drive the company’s AI agenda forward, and turn us into an AI-native organization.

You will report disciplinarily to the CEOs Executive Office and functionally to the CTO organization, working closely with senior stakeholders across all divisions.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and own the company-wide AI roadmap — from vision to execution
• Enable teams and leaders to truly use AI tools and processes — not just know about them
• Identify, prioritize, and drive concrete AI initiatives across the entire value chain (asset management, transactions, research, operations, corporate activities)
• Foster a culture in which AI is seen and used as a tool by everyone — not as a threat
• Report directly to executive leadership and act as a trusted advisor at eye level
• Support and further develop the AI Champions network by providing structure, coordination, and guidance
• Ensure that AI initiatives are implemented in line with internal governance, security, data protection, and regulatory requirements, in close collaboration with IT and compliance functions
• Continuously scan the organization for new AI opportunities, emerging needs, and scalability potential, ensuring momentum beyond initial rollout phases

What we look for:

• Excellent academic background in business, economics, (business) informatics, engineering, or a comparable discipline
• Proven experience in implementing and scaling AI within organizations
• Deep understanding of LLMs, automation, data, and AI infrastructure
• Ideally, knowledge of the real assets industry (real estate, infrastructure, private equity, or similar)
• Hands-on mindset: you can prompt, test, iterate — and enable others to do the same
• Strong leadership skills and C-level communication capability
• Entrepreneurial mindset — you prefer building rather than managing
• Business‑fluent in German and English

What We Offer

• A strategically important role with direct exposure to senior leadership and tangible impact on key business decisions
• High visibility and close collaboration with top management, enabling accelerated learning and professional development
• Significant ownership of high-priority topics, shaping initiatives that drive business performance and transformation
• Flexible working model: hybrid set‑up with an average of two mobile working days per week
• Individual development: extensive training and development opportunities via the PATRIZIA Academy, complemented by continuous on-the-job learning and exposure to complex, high-impact topics
• An inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace within an international company, actively promoted by our ED&I Council
• Attractive benefits: including JobRad leasing, childcare subsidies, and a monthly ShoppingCard allowance
• Time for social engagement: two additional days of paid leave, e.g. for projects of the PATRIZIA Foundation

Sounds like you?

If you want to create a better tomorrow with us, we want to hear from you via our job portal (www.patrizia.ag/careers). Together, let’s make a positive impact.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

At Patrizia, we are committed to leading the industry in how we advance the equity diversity and inclusion of our global teams. The opinion and experience of each individual counts. With inherent trust in each other, we do our greatest work steeped in courage, integrity, optimism, collaboration and tenacity.

PATRIZIA SE | Human Resources

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