About Celonis
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At its 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. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.
The Team
Value Engineering is responsible for Celonis's largest Fortune 500 customers and owns their transformation journey by working on the frontier of what's possible with data and AI on the Celonis Platform. Partnering closely with the Sales team, Value Engineering ensures that the Celonis Platform is deployed to tackle the most strategic business challenges, fits into the right place in customers' technology stack, and generates strong ROI through deep and broad deployments.
The Role
As a Senior Value Engineer, you will spearhead AI and data-driven business transformation within the Retail sector by contributing to your customer's end-to-end value journey using the Celonis Context Model. Working alongside Lead and Principal VEs, you will combine technical execution with consulting and project management. As an AI-fluent operator, your core mandate is to orchestrate complex roadmaps and execute targeted transformation initiatives that improve how these businesses operate across their [Core Functional Area] ecosystems.
Responsibilities
•Value Selling & Realization: Uncover the real issues by peeling back layers of organizational complexity. Own the outcome from first discovery through realized ROI for your process areas. Tell the value story by crafting powerful executive narratives and leading business value workshops.
•Stakeholder Management: Cultivate powerful executive sponsorship across core business units to champion transformation programs. Co-own change management with customer leaders and design CoE roadmaps that build self-sufficiency.
•Program Management: Steer global transformations across complex workstreams. Own and implement AI-driven account planning and AI-assisted project management. Automate executive governance (QBRs, SteerCos) with minimal manual friction.
•Platform & AI Fluency: Act as an AI-fluent operator, utilizing AI tools for rapid technical outputs while partnering with Applied Value Engineers for deep-dive solution builds. Champion platform adoption.
•Scale Value & Innovation: Build a strategic expansion roadmap embedding Celonis as a strategic platform to drive adoption. Provide feedback to R&D based on evolving customer use cases.
Requirements
•Experience: 5+ years of experience taking ownership of complex workstreams, process areas, and customer relationships in Value Engineering, Consulting, or Pre-Sales.
•AI & Technical Fluency: Solid background in enterprise IT and business software (e.g., SAP, Workday, Salesforce, Oracle). You operate primarily as an AI-fluent operator, utilizing AI copilots to generate outputs and automations, avoiding heavy manual coding.
•Builder Mentality: Comfortable setting your own direction within an account team. Driven to live for customer value, proactively hunting and ideating for highest-impact solutions.
•Process Improvement & Value Realization: Proven expertise in executing process improvements.
•Strategic Program & Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated expertise orchestrating multi-region or business unit transformation programs. Expert at mobilizing VP/Director-level sponsorship. Flawless English communication with commanding executive presence.
•Domain & Industry: Deep understanding of the Finance/Supply Chain domains and Retail trends. You stay continuously updated on business-critical use cases.
•Degree: Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Analytics, comparable technical degree, or a Business/Economics degree paired with a technical minor.
What Celonis Offers
•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: 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: Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, plus a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with office collaboration.
•Continuous Growth: 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
•Holistic Well-being: Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance.
•Drive Sustainability: Annual Impact Days with paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes, locally or virtually.
•Global Inclusion & Belonging: Community through the Inclusion Think Tank and annual Inclusion Days.
•Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where the core values — Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future — drive every decision.
