Principal Value Engineer

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our 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. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

The Team: Value Engineering is responsible for our largest Fortune 500 customers and owns their transformation journey by working on the very frontier of what’s possible with data and AI on the Celons Platform. Partnering closely with the Sales team, Value Engineering is responsible for ensuring that the Celonis Platform is deployed to tackle the most strategic business challenges, fits into the right place in our customers’ technology stack and most importantly generates strong ROI through deep and broad deployments.

The Role: As a Principal Value Engineer, you are a visionary leader and industry authority spearheading global AI and data-driven business transformations for major organisations, driving the customer’s end-to-end value journey. Operating as the expert technology and business advisor, you will partner directly with Fortune500 CxOs and Board members to reimagine their operating models and optimize critical workflows using the Celonis Context Model. As the AI strategist and thought leader, working alongside Senior and Lead Value Engineers, your core mandate is to design, negotiate, and steer monumental, multi-year programs that permanently alter the competitive landscape for your customers.

The work you’ll do:

Value Selling & Realization: Act as a visionary trusted advisor, defining how Celonis serves as the foundational intelligence layer for the customer’s global AI strategy. Take ultimate accountability for hundred-million-dollar value realization targets. Deliver compelling, board-ready financial narratives and define the industry standard for value workshops.

Stakeholder Management: Command the C-suite. Mobilize global executive sponsorship and align fragmented organizational silos around a singular transformation vision. Architect the global change management and CoE strategy that sets the benchmark for the industry.

Program Management: Steer multi-year, global mega-transformations. Pioneer new AI-driven orchestration models for account planning and enterprise governance. Automate and elevate executive alignment, ensuring seamless SteerCos at the highest levels of leadership.

Platform & AI Fluency: Act as the pinnacle of AI-fluent operations, dictating the technical strategy and orchestrating entire teams of Applied Value Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers to deliver ground-breaking, customized enterprise solutions.

Scale Value: Define the blueprint for global expansion roadmaps. Act as a strategic liaison to the Celonis Product & Engineering leadership, shaping the future roadmap of the platform based on macro-industry trends.

The qualifications you need:

Experience: 10+ years of deep, expert-level experience in Management Consulting, Value Engineering, or Enterprise Strategy. Recognized as an industry expert who works purely at a strategic, transformational level.

AI & Technical & Fluency: Unmatched strategic understanding of global IT architectures and SaaS ecosystems (e.g., SAP). A visionary AI-fluent operator who uses AI to scale strategy and execution, directing technical teams to build state-of-the-art solutions.

Builder Mentality: Entrepreneurial mindset. You define the direction for massive global account teams and are intrinsically motivated to set new industry records for living for customer value.

Process Improvement & Value Realization: Global authority on value realization and enterprise process excellence. You write the playbook on business-critical use cases.

Strategic Program & Stakeholder Management: Unparalleled capability to orchestrate global, multi-year mega-programs. A trusted advisor to C-level executives with flawless English and Dutch communication and commanding preferably, boardroom-ready executive presence.

Domain & Industry: Master industry strategist with recognized thought leadership in the Finance/Supply Chain domains.

Degree: Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Analytics or a comparable technical degree (Master’s/MBA preferred).

What Celonis can offer 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.

About Us:

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI, empowering organizations to analyze, design, and operate AI-driven processes. The Celonis Platform is powered by the Celonis Context Model, which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence to create a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can understand — turning AI’s operational blind spots into operational clarity. Industry-leading companies around the world 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.

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