Working Student - Platform manager
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For our company headquarters in Hamburg's HafenCity, we are looking for you to start as soon as possible as Working Student (m/w/d) Platform Manager Our offer to you:
- Ability to work freely: flexible working hours and individual remote work arrangement
- Support in various life situations: through our partner PME Family Service, offering support in life crises as well as professional advice on work-related and personal matters, such as childcare, elder care, and more
- Health: Subsidized membership with EGYM Wellpass, providing access to a wide range of sports facilities across Germany, as well as online courses in fitness, nutrition and meditation; free access to the Headspace app; bicycle leasing
- Learning & Development: support on your individual development path with internal and external training opportunities
- Networking: Networks within the company to establish cross-team and international connections, as well as company events
- Open corporate culture: at heart, a family-owned company with drive, a culture of lived tolerance, speak-up mentality and strong team spirit on the path to a green future
- Modern collaborative office: with a subsidized employee restaurant, open-plan office concept and views of the Elbe River and the harbour
Here's what you can look forward to: As a Working Student (m/w/d) Platform Manager in our Data, Integration & AI Platforms Department, you will be part of a cross-functional platform team, working closely with product, data and engineering colleagues to support our day-to-day delivery. You will help make agile work visible by facilitating Scrum ceremonies, keeping boards and backlogs sharp, and turning stakeholder input into clear, value-driven user stories that ship every Sprint. In this role, you will contribute directly to high-performing agile delivery and lay the groundwork for scalable data and AI products, while gaining hands-on experience with modern product and agile practices in a real platform environment. Your tasks in a nutshell:
- Facilitate Agile Rituals: You help plan and run Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives, keep timeboxes, capture follow-up actions, and support Daily Scrums when needed.
- Manage the Backlog: You draft and refine user stories and acceptance criteria, maintain a clear and well-ordered backlog, and ensure work is always linked to the Product Goal.
- Sync with Stakeholders: You collect input from users and data consumers, summarize feedback for prioritization, and prepare content and talking points for Sprint Reviews.
- Track Impediments: You log issues and risks, nudge owners on their actions, follow up on dependencies, and help the team remove blockers.
- Maintain Metrics & Reporting: You keep Jira/ADO boards up to date, maintain simple dashboards and burndown charts, and support the team's continuous improvement.
- Grow Your Agile Skills: You deepen your Scrum and product discovery skills and practice turning complex requirements into clear, testable user stories that deliver value.
Requirements
Do you have experience in SharePoint?, * Education: You are enrolled in a university program, ideally in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Informatics, or a comparable field.
- IT Skills: You are proficient in Microsoft 365 applications (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.); first experience in SQL queries and Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
- Languages: You are fluent in English; German knowledge is beneficial.
- Organized & Detail-oriented: You bring strong organizational and multitasking skills with attention to detail.
- Structured & Analytical: You work in a reliable, structured, and analytical way.
Even if you do not fulfil all of the above requirements, we encourage you to apply if you believe your experience will add value to our team. You feel this could be a match?
