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title: 'AI Lead at JUPUS'
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# AI Lead at JUPUS

- **Company:** JUPUS
- **Location:** Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jupus/a40c4367-20c9-4afe-9b6c-bdc8608c6677

## Job description

We’re seeking a driven AI Lead to take ownership of AI across one of the fastest-growing legal tech companies in Europe, leading the development and evolution of our core AI products.

This role combines applied generative AI development with AI leadership, balancing hands-on work on production systems with leading the AI team, defining the roadmap, and establishing best practices for AI across the company.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for the entire AI function: setting direction, building systems, and enabling the organization to effectively leverage AI. You will work closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver reliable AI features while continuously improving infrastructure, observability, and evaluation workflows across all AI products.

For a leader with strong experience building and deploying AI systems in production, this is an opportunity to own multiple AI products, scale a high-performing AI team, and shape how AI is applied across the company.

## YOUR CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY IN THIS ROLE

You will define how AI is built, shipped, and scaled at JUPUS. As AI Lead, you are responsible for both strategic direction and execution, ensuring that AI systems across voice, chat, and document processing deliver real value to users.

You will lead the development and evolution of Phonebot, Chatbot, and Document AI, while establishing the technical and organizational foundations needed to scale AI across the company.

Expect strong ownership, fast iteration, and pragmatic decision-making, with a clear focus on building reliable, production-ready systems that improve productivity for law firms.

## TASKS

## AI STRATEGY, LEADERSHIP & IMPLEMENTATION:

- Define and execute the AI roadmap across all AI products
- Lead, mentor, and grow the AI team, fostering a high-performance, execution-focused culture
- Architect and implement production-ready generative AI systems across voice, chat, and document workflows
- Contribute hands-on (≈40%) to core AI systems, including architecture, implementation, and optimization
- Design and oversee agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-based architectures across products
- Establish and scale evaluation, testing, and observability frameworks for AI systems
- Define and enforce best practices for AI development, deployment, and iteration
- Ensure reliable delivery and fast iteration within a small, high-impact team

## CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION:

- Partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to integrate AI into real product workflows
- Translate complex AI capabilities into clear, practical product features
- Act as the AI authority within the company, supporting teams in adopting and applying AI effectively
- Communicate AI strategy and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

## REQUIREMENTS:

- 5–6 years of experience building and shipping applied AI systems in production
- Proven hands-on experience with agentic AI systems and/or RAG in production (beyond simple API usage)
- Strong proficiency in Python and backend development for AI-driven products
- Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring AI engineers, including setting technical direction and raising team standards
- Track record of owning and delivering AI features end-to-end in a product environment
- Experience with LLM evaluation, monitoring, and observability (e.g. LangSmith, Langfuse, or similar)
- Ability to balance hands-on work with technical leadership in a fast-paced environment
- Strong product mindset and ability to translate AI capabilities into real user value
- Fluent in English
- Must be located within the CET -2/+2 time zone

Nice to Have:

- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or custom agent frameworks
- Familiarity with Django or similar
- Understanding of LLM architectures or deep learning fundamentals

## BENEFITS

🚀 Foundational Impact – Help build and scale the core AI capabilities of JUPUS from the ground up

🔒 Technical Ownership – Work directly on the systems powering AI features across multiple products

🌱 Growth Environment – Build production AI systems at the cutting edge of generative AI and agentic workflows

💼 Leadership Visibility – Flat hierarchy with direct access to the Head of Engineering and CTO, reporting to the AI Lead

🏡 Fully Remote – Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere

💻 Top Equipment – State-of-the-art MacBook plus all the accessories you need

🏋️ Wellbeing Perks – Urban Sports Club membership to support your healthy lifestyle

If you're passionate about building practical AI systems, shipping agentic workflows, and creating real impact for users through generative AI, we’d love to hear from you.

## About JUPUS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: JUPUS provides an AI-powered legal secretary platform that automates client intake, document generation, and communication for law firms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – €13M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Cologne, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: René Fergen and Jannis Gebauer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal technology (AI software for law firms)
- **Target customers**: B2B – solo practitioners, small to mid-size law firms, and larger practices in German-speaking Europe
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Automate the client intake process from initial contact to complete file, reducing administrative load and enabling lawyers to focus on billable work.

## Products & Services
- **JUPUS AI Chatbot**: An intelligent chatbot for law firm websites that captures visitor inquiries, asks for relevant information and documents, and converts 3x more visitors into formal requests.
- **JUPUS Phone AI**: An AI answering machine that understands caller concerns, asks for key details, and never misses an important call.
- **Online Appointment Booking**: A calendar widget synced with the firm’s calendar; clients reserve appointments and provide preliminary legal information before booking.
- **Digital Questionnaires & Document Generation**: Automatically generates powers of attorney, fee agreements, and other legal documents from client-submitted information; supports digital signatures.
- **Automated File Creation**: One-click creation of case files in the firm’s software, including all collected master data, documents, and communication history.
- **Central Request Platform**: All inquiries (email, phone, website) are aggregated in a single dashboard with AI-powered summarisation and suggested replies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – €13M Series A (lead investor undisclosed in snippet; previous seed of €6.5M led by Acton Capital) [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) | Total funding approx. €20M (combining angel, pre-seed, seed, and Series A)
- **Notable Investors**: Acton Capital (lead seed), HTGF (High-Tech Gründerfonds, lead pre-seed), plus multiple angel investors including Marcus Bez, Ingo Weber, Laura Wolfram [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/jupuslegal)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 176% YoY to 59 employees; 20 active job postings (monthly job postings +17.6%); hundreds of law firms processing 200+ inquiries per day (as of May 2023) [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) | LinkedIn followers grew 129% YoY to 4,397

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first automation** that covers the entire client intake workflow – from chatbot to digital signature – not just a single piece of software.
- **Full compliance** with GDPR, BRAO (German legal professional rules), and use of certified EU servers.
- **30-minute setup** and immediate integration with 30+ law firm software systems (e.g., AnNoText, RA-Micro, DATEV).
- **No training required** – platform is pre-configured with the firm’s own documents during onboarding.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling sales and customer success** to capture the growing German legal-tech market (20 open positions in sales, onboarding, and customer success).
- **Deepening AI capabilities** with the new Phone AI module and expanding conversational AI to handle more complex legal queries.
- **Internationalisation** – small presence already established in the UK, Nigeria, and Spain; likely expansion beyond DACH region.

## Why Work Here
- **Fast-growing startup** with 176% headcount growth and a clear product-market fit in a traditional industry ripe for disruption.
- **Hybrid/office culture** – headquartered in Cologne (WeWork at Pilgrimstraße 6c) with a young, multidisciplinary team (engineering, product, sales, marketing).
- **Strong technical team** – 11 engineers (16% of workforce) led by a Head of Engineering, with a Lead Product Designer and a Head of Product.
- **Impactful work** – every employee directly contributes to reducing lawyers’ administrative burden and improving client experience.
- **Transparent culture** – open job postings show heavy investment in go-to-market roles, indicating aggressive growth and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [jupus.de](https://www.jupus.de/en) – Official product and pricing page
2. [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/jupuslegal) – Company overview, employee data, funding details, open positions
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jupus) – Headquarters, financials, total funding
4. [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) – Funding history, team size, daily inquiry volume, founder names
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jupus) – Careers page (20 active openings)

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