Senior Applied AI Engineer

About Celonis

Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities—specifically our Process Intelligence Graph—to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

The Role

As a Lead Applied Value Engineer, you are spearheading our mission of solving critical operational challenges for enterprise customers. You will be working with strategic clients to understand their unique objectives, from modernizing legacy systems to optimizing finance processes and deploying an agentic business. In partnership with the Celonis Sales Teams, you have full responsibility for the end-to-end value journey of our customers. You are our customers' trusted advisor and help them drive adoption and realize measurable business value using Celonis.

You can expect to blend process and industry expertise with a solution-first mindset, analyzing customer data and deploying tactical solutions. By using the Celonis Process Intelligence platform to feed critical operational context to AI and LLM tools, you will help our customers move past simple automation to deploy intelligent, autonomous agents that solve complex business bottlenecks. You're the Celonis expert, connecting the dots between their pain points and how our platform can solve the problem. You'd be managing weekly cadences, QBRs, and value plans to demonstrate the value of our solutions to VP+ level executives.

Key Responsibilities

• Pre- and Post-Sales Execution: Actively drive the full customer lifecycle. Lead technical discovery and capability demonstrations during the pre-sales expansion cycles and remain deeply involved post-sale to guide implementation, ensuring agreed value and adoption thresholds are successfully met.

• Insights Framing and Value Realization: Own driving enterprise-wide ROI and adoption programs. Increasingly accelerate customer autonomy with improved cadences and executive sponsorship through QBRs, strategic roadmaps, and enterprise-wide value opportunities. Enable cross-functional alignment and establish repeatable frameworks for customers to independently track, realize, and expand on business value.

• Domain & Industry Leadership: Serve as the internal and external technical subject matter expert for your customer industry domain to scale knowledge across the organization.

• AI Discovery & Solutioning: Understand your customers' AI strategies and specific challenges. As a Celonis product expert, find the best problem-solution fit and translate customer requirements into innovative solutions that deliver measurable impact.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in pre-sales, customer success, and/or consulting functions with a background in pre/post-sales consulting, strategy consulting, business process improvement, digital transformations, or customer value realization

• Strong technical skills across Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g. Azure, Data Engineering). Knowledge of Data Connections, Data Objects, Data Validation and Data Analysis. Knowledge and use of LLMs, across Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g. Claude, Copilot). Understanding of basic prompting and data constructs within a prompt.

• Value-driven selling through expertise in identifying and prioritizing use cases, implementing improvement measures and becoming a change agent for the customer by establishing an operating model and training users for the customer to realize value and renew/expand their subscription with Celonis

• Project Management: You are able to plan and manage project scope, expectations and timelines. You will need to manage multiple projects across your aligned accounts that will be at different parts of the value journey. You will leverage partners from the Celonis Ecosystem wherever possible.

• Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders, whether leading technical whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.

• Bachelor's Degree required; focus in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent work experience preferred.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of business processes across sectors (such as Supply Chain or Finance) with the ability to translate high-level business needs into specific AI use cases.

• Good knowledge of Python and common ML libraries (such as LangChain, pandas, sklearn, PyTorch) as well as data engineering tools and technologies.

• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLM orchestration, RAG, function calling, and prompt engineering, while ensuring safety through rigorous evaluations and guardrails.

Compensation & Location

Base Salary Range (New York, Full Time): $140,000—$160,000 USD

Total compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off). The base salary range is a guideline, and the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location.

Note: Visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.

What Celonis Offers 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.