Let’s start with the role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Technical Project & Partner Manager to join our dynamic team. This role is ideal for a professional who excels at managing relationships with external development vendors and has a deep understanding of the technical project lifecycle within the iGaming industry. 

You will be the primary point of contact for our key partners, overseeing technology projects from initiation to completion and ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and according to specifications. In addition, you will manage relationships with external vendors, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services and products, optimizing vendor performance, and mitigating associated risks. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, a proven track record in project and vendor management, and a passion for the online gaming world.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will:

Vendor Management:

• Identify, evaluate, and select suitable vendors for IT projects and services.
• Negotiate contracts, service level agreements (SLAs), and pricing with vendors.
• Manage vendor relationships by ensuring clear communication, collaboration, and alignment with project goals.
• Monitor vendor performance against contractual obligations and SLAs.
• Evaluate vendor performance, identify areas for improvement, and address any performance issues.
• Manage vendor contracts, ensuring compliance with terms and conditions.
• Mitigate risks associated with vendor relationships.
• Ensure the delivery of required services or products within budget and timelines.
• Assess and onboard specialized AI technology partners, evaluating their agentic AI capabilities, integration readiness, and compliance with strict industry regulations.

Project Management:

• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Lead and manage project teams, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and performance.
• Monitor project progress, identify and resolve issues, perform escalations when necessary and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Ensure projects adhere to project management methodologies and best practices.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their use in projects.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of AI projects—from proof-of-concept (PoC) to deployment—ensuring safety, data privacy, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and agentic AI architectures (e.g., LLM-based autonomous agents) to automate repetitive workflows, optimize internal processes, and enhance overall delivery efficiency.

Leadership Responsibilities

• May be responsible for managing a team of project coordinators, technical staff, or vendor management specialists.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to team members.
• Set performance expectations, provide improvement suggestions, conduct performance reviews, and support employee development.
• Foster a collaborative and results-oriented team environment.
• Manage team budgets and resources.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience (typically 5+ years) in IT project management, with a strong understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).
• Demonstrated experience (typically 3+ years) in vendor management, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, and performance management.
• Technical proficiency in relevant IT areas, such as software development, infrastructure, or systems integration.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Knowledge of IT procurement processes and best practices.
• Practical experience or a strongly demonstrated interest in Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), and emerging Agentic AI frameworks
• Familiarity with the unique challenges of AI/ML project lifecycles, including prompt engineering, model evaluation, and mitigating risks associated with autonomous system deployments
• A proactive approach to evaluating how cutting-edge technologies (like Generative AI) can solve traditional operational bottlenecks
• PMP or other relevant project management certification is a plus.

Kaizen Gaming Perks

• 🕑 Hybrid way of working
• 🏃 A buddy will support you with your onboarding
• 💸 Competitive pay & bonus scheme
• ⭐Developmental 360° feedback framework
• 💰 Monthly meal allowance
• 👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance for you and your family
• 📚 Unlimited access to Udemy & continuous training
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Support.

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Senior Software Engineer - Conversational AI & Automation

Aisera is a leading provider of AI Copilot solutions, utilizing AiseraGPT and Generative AI to facilitate business transformation and drive revenue growth through a self-service model. Aisera’s AI Copilot uses industry and domain-specific LLMs to deliver human-like experiences and auto-remediate requests through AI workflows. With 400+ integrations and 1200+ prebuilt workflows, customers achieve 75%+ automation and 90% cost reduction.

Aisera has received numerous recognitions, including the following: FastCompany Best Workplaces for Innovators; Inc 5000 Award for Fastest Growth; Forbes AI50; EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023; CNBC Upstart 100 Top Startup; Gartner Cool Vendor; Red Herring Top 100 Global Innovator; CIO Innovation Startup Award; CIO Review Top ITSM Solution; and Silicon Review 50 Most Admired Companies. 

Our seasoned founding team has led companies through several prior successful startups and acquisitions. We give our employees a lot of responsibility and ownership of their work, and we hire people from a very wide range of backgrounds and experience. Our team members operate with a high degree of empathy for our customers and each other.

Join our dynamic and fast-paced team and be a part of our journey to revolutionize the industry.

The Role: 

We are looking for a skilled software engineer with strong hands-on experience and the ability to provide technical guidance and direction to team members.

As a Senior engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our conversation AI & Automation building blocks and features, with a focus on microservices architecture. Your expertise in product development, technical vision and leadership will be valuable in shaping our innovative solutions and enhancing our existing products. 

This role is based out of Athens, Greece (Remote)

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver scalable and real-time systems with high quality, scalability, and operability in mind.
• Collaborate with product management, data science, and other engineering teams to bring end-to-end solutions with the highest business value to our customers.
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs and code changes to ensure highly available, scalable, maintainable designs and high code quality standards to engineering peers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues that arise in production and provide timely resolutions.
• Proactively identify areas of technical debt and improvement opportunities, and drive solutions or innovation in engineering organization.
• Take operational ownership of the system by using monitoring and observability tools to identify and resolve production issues. 
• Mentor and support team members to raise the technical bar on the team.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years hands-on experience with microservices and scalable software development.
• Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data, and the full software lifecycle of modern computer languages (java, python, postgres/mariadb, Redis, Kafka etc).
• Strong understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Practical experience in database design and integration, including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g AWS, GCP) is highly desired
• Familiarity with SaaS concepts and experience in developing SaaS-based applications is a plus.
• Domain knowledge experience with ServiceNow, Salesforce, workflow, business process etc.

Aisera is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

Aisera is a leading provider of AI Copilot solutions, utilizing AiseraGPT and Generative AI to facilitate business transformation and drive revenue growth through a self-service model. Aisera’s AI Copilot uses industry and domain-specific LLMs to deliver human-like experiencs and auto- remediate requests through AI workflows. With 400+ integrations and 1200+ prebuilt workflows, customers achieve 75%+ automation and 90% cost reduction. Aisera has received numerous recognitions, including Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Artificial Intelligence Applications in ITSM, FastCompany Best Workplaces for Innovators, Inc 5000 Award for Fastest Growth, Forbes AI50, EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023, CNBC Upstart 100 Top Startup, Gartner Cool Vendor, Red Herring Top 100 Global Innovator, CIO Innovation Startup Award, CIO Review Top ITSM Solution, and Silicon Review 50 Most Admired Companies.

The Role
Take this opportunity to lead the design and development of advanced AI systems including intelligent agents, conversational interfaces, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and systems. Drive technical strategy and implementation for next-generation AI products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution
• Architect, design and optimize dialog agents with natural language understanding, context management, and multi-turn conversation capabilities
• Develop and optimize robust search and retrieval systems for RAG implementations, including vector databases, embedding strategies, and knowledge integration
• Take ownership of complex system design, from proof-of-concept to production deployment
• Establish best practices for AI model integration, prompt engineering, and system reliability
• Collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into technical AI solutions
• Develop and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines that automate the ingestion, transformation, and storage of data
• Identify performance bottlenecks and improve systems scalability.

Requirements

• At least 7 years in senior software engineering roles, with 2+ years as tech lead or architect 
• 2+ recent years professional work on AI or Search systems 
• Expertise in vector search, embedding models, or RAG system optimization
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native AI infrastructure
• Experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.), and vector databases or information retrieval systems (preferably Elastic)
• Solid understanding of software development principles and architectural best practices.
• Professional experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• Professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Proficiency in using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and orchestration tools.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications (in order):

• Ph.D. in distributed systems, AI systems, or related area
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch).
• Experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks. 

This is a Greece-based, full-time, employee-status, fully remote position.  

Aisera is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.