Senior Front Office Manager (m/w/d), befristet - ab 1. September 2026 bis voraussichtlich 1. Juni 2027 (mit Option auf Verlängerung)

MTR Legal

WIR MTR Legal Rechtsanwälte ist eine wirtschaftsrechtlich ausgerichtete Full-Service-Kanzlei mit Standorten in Köln, Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, München und Stuttgart. Wir beraten mittelständische Unternehmen, internationale Investoren und Private Clients – mit kurzen Entscheidungswegen, unternehmerischem Spirit und einem starken Team. Damit unsere Anwält:innen exzellent beraten können, brauchen wir jemanden, der unser Office in Köln mit Klarheit, Souveränität und einem klugen Blick fürs Detail führt. Genau hier kommst du ins Spiel. DU * Mindestens 5 Jahre Erfahrung als Office Manager:in, Front Desk Manager:in oder in der Assistenz der Geschäftsführung – Erfahrung in einer Kanzlei oder Beratung ist ein Plus, aber kein Muss * Erste Führungserfahrung oder klare Ambition, ein kleines Team zu führen und zu entwickeln * Verhandlungssicheres Deutsch (C2) und fließendes Englisch (mind. C1) * Souveränes, freundliches und professionelles Auftreten – auch in stressigen Situationen * Strukturierte, lösungsorientierte Arbeitsweise und ein gutes Gespür für Priorisierung * Diskretion und ein sicherer Umgang mit vertraulichen Themen * IT-Affinität und Freude an der Arbeit mit digitalen Tools (SharePoint, MS Office) CONNECTING THE DOTS * Leitung und Weiterentwicklung unseres Office-Teams in Köln (Sekretariat und studentische Mitarbeitende) * Erste Ansprechperson für interne und externe Kommunikation – am Empfang, am Telefon und im persönlichen Kontakt * Optimierung und Digitalisierung unserer Office-Prozesse mit Blick auf Effizienz und Qualität * Organisation des Büroalltags: Bestellwesen, Post, technische Ausstattung, Catering * Enge Zusammenarbeit mit Geschäftsführung und Partner:innen, inklusive Sonderaufgaben und strategischer Office-Themen * Mitgestaltung interner Events und eines positiven Arbeitsumfelds PERSPECTIVE * Verantwortung: Eine Schlüsselrolle mit Gestaltungsspielraum und direktem Draht zur Geschäftsführung * Entwicklung: Individuelle Weiterbildung und klare Karriereperspektiven in einer wachsenden Kanzlei * Kultur: Flache Hierarchien, kollegiales Du, kurze Entscheidungswege * Mehrwerte: Urban Sports Club, Deutschlandticket, Business-Bike-Leasing, täglich frisches Obst * Modernes Setup: Office am Rheinufer, State-of-the-Art IT und digitale Tools Du möchtest Teil von MTR Legal werden? Auch wenn du dich in unserer Stellenausschreibung nicht zu 100 % wiederfindest oder nicht alle Kriterien erfüllst, freuen wir uns trotzdem auf deine Bewerbung.

JUNA

YOUR MISSION As JUNA's Senior Product Manager, you'll take full ownership of our products — one in particular, which is currently an internal sales tool that we're about to grow significantly and open up to customers. You'll step in to cover the role during a maternity leave, and take on lasting ownership beyond that, working side-by-side with our CTO in a small, fast-moving team with no layers between you and the people building or using the product. This is a hands-on, generalist product role: you'll run discovery, prioritize a constantly flowing stream of ideas, consider our business goals and market opportunities, enable idea/design validation by building your own clickable prototypes with AI tooling, and work directly with engineers day to day. * Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our key product: discovery, idea validation and prioritization, shipping, and iteration. * Handle a continuous flow of ideas and requests while maintaining a roadmap that people stand behind — even when the answer is "not now." * Work directly and daily with engineers, without a technical intermediary. * Build your own clickable, testable prototypes using AI-assisted tools to move ideas from concept to validation fast. * Partner closely with our CEO and CTO, who are both directly involved in roadmap and prioritization decisions. * Help shape our product's evolution from an internal tool into a customer-facing product. What that looks like In the first 3–6 months: * Ramp Up Fast: Get a full picture of our products, their users (internal and future external), and the current roadmap; build working relationships with the tech team, internal stakeholders, and our CEO/CTO. Ship your first AI-assisted prototypes and use them to validate ideas with real stakeholders. * Take the Reins: Independently run initiatives and take over active workstreams. After 12 months: * Trusted Owner: Be the clear, trusted owner of our roadmap. * Multi-Front Operator: Be running several concurrent workstreams smoothly, without things falling through the cracks. * Driving the Transition: Have meaningfully contributed to our product's growth toward customer readiness. YOUR PROFILE What you bring: * Several years of experience as a (senior) Product Manager, ideally including time as the sole or lead PM on a product with limited supporting infrastructure (no dedicated design/research team). * A strong, demonstrable ability to prioritize by impact — you can take competing input from various stakeholders and land on a defensible roadmap. * Hands-on experience using AI-assisted design tools to build clickable, testable prototypes yourself. * Experience managing multiple distinct projects or products concurrently. * Experience working closely with senior stakeholders, ideally including C-level. * Comfort working closely with engineers day to day — deep technical background is however not required. Who you are: * Hands-on and pragmatic — you'd rather build the process you need than wait for one to exist. * Autonomous — you set your own priorities and know when to make the call yourself versus when to escalate. * A clear, confident communicator — especially when the answer to a stakeholder is "not now," you can explain why in a way that keeps people on board. * Comfortable with ambiguity and a flat, still-scaling organization. Bonus points if you have: * Experience in logistics, particularly trucking — familiarity with operational concepts is a plus. * Experience taking a product from internal-only to customer-facing. * Exposure to both B2B/SaaS and more operational or back-office tooling contexts. * Ambition to grow as the team scales. OUR VALUES, IN THIS ROLE * Think outside the truck: challenge the internal-only status quo, prototype fast. * Impact, not activity: cut through noise, prioritize what actually matters. * Own it: end-to-end roadmap ownership, no safety net. * Collaboration drives the core: daily work with engineers, CEO, and CTO. * Customer in the driver's seat: internal or external, understand what they need. WHY US? Ownership from day one: You won't be managing a slice of a product — you'll own one of our most strategically important products, with real autonomy and a direct line to our CEO and CTO. Room to grow: We don't have a Head of Product yet. As we scale, this role has a clear path to grow into broader product leadership. Impact you can see: In a small team, your decisions ship fast and visibly — no waiting for a big org to move. Sustainability: Join a company where your work directly contributes to reducing carbon emissions in logistics. Benefits: Join a great team in our dog-friendly, hybrid work model with an office located at the heart of Kreuzberg, where you'll enjoy a relaxed, no-micromanagement culture, regular company events, access to Urban Sports Club and an L&D budget, and an office stocked with snacks and drinks to keep you energized. At JUNA, we value authenticity, humility, and potential — so even if you don't check every box, we encourage you to apply. We know that diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences are what drive true innovation. Our team is collaborative, international, and always evolving. Come as you are — we're excited to meet you and hopefully welcome you on our journey to transform the logistics industry across Europe.

Man Group

About Man Group Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent. Headquartered in London, we manage $228.7 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com At Man Group, we respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your Personal Data. We have developed policies and processes which are designed to provide for the security and integrity of your Personal Data. We are committed to Processing your Personal Data fairly and lawfully, and being open and transparent about such Processing. For further information on how we process your data, please see the privacy notice for applicants here * As at 31 March 2026   The Role As an Lead Quantitative Developer in the Front-office Engineering organization at Man Systematic, you will work closely with Quantitative Researchers and Portfolio Managers. Your challenges will be varied and may include onboarding new datasets, implementing new trading signals, developing portfolio optimization tools, building data visualization frameworks, enhancing our research platform, and performance tuning existing code using efficient numerical algorithms and cluster-computing solutions. As the local lead for our growing Front-office Engineering team in China, you will also be instrumental in hiring, onboarding, and shaping the team from the ground up.   Our Technology Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Python, with the full scientific stack: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, statsmodels, and scikit-learn to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB and MS SQL.  We use Control-M and Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication. Our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.   Technology and Business Skills We strive to hire only the brightest, best and most highly skilled, passionate technologists.    Key Competencies Required * 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably with a focus on quantitative applications * Experience as a technical lead or people manager, encompassing both team development (hiring, building teams, and mentoring junior engineers) and project management (driving technical delivery) * Expert knowledge of Python and Pandas and proficiency with related scientific libraries including NumPy, SciPy, statsmodels, and scikit-learn * Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment * Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git * Working knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies, such as MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB * Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured Advantageous * Experience in quantitative software development within a front-office setting, such as at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or investment bank * Experience building web applications using modern frameworks like React * Proficient with distributed computing technologies such as Spark, Dask, Kubernetes, Redis * Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing * Strong understanding of financial markets and instruments * Experience working with financial market data * Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g., statistics, time-series analysis   Personal Attributes * Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics * Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving * Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities * Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process * Strong interpersonal skills: able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, traders and senior business people alike * Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views   Working Here Man Systematic has a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do.  We are actively engaged with the broader technology community. * We regularly talk at leading industry conferences across the globe * We host and sponsor Boston meetups and London’s PyData and Machine Learning Meetups * We open-source some of our technology, including our ultra-high-performance DataFrame database, ArcticDB. See https://github.com/man-group for a full list and more information. We believe that agile working allows us to deliver the best business outcomes for our clients and investors as well as having a positive impact on work-life balance and the wellbeing of our staff. We are simultaneously committed to “levelling the playing field” and believe that agile working promotes inclusivity across teams, regions and business units. In general, Technology roles are expected to be in the office for 3-4 days a week. However, the specifics can vary based on the role, team, and individual circumstances, and are ultimately subject to the manager’s discretion. We offer competitive compensation, a generous holiday allowance, various health and other flexible benefits. We are also committed to continuous learning and development via coaching, mentoring, regular conference attendance and sponsoring academic and professional qualifications. Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity. You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering. Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance. Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.