Consultant (m/f/d) - Innovation and Ventures

hy is looking for a motivated Consultant for the Innovation and Ventures team to redefine consulting under their motto 'Redefine Consulting'. The role involves conceptualizing, managing, and executing client projects, building MVPs and products, validating ideas, and acting as an interface to clients. The consultant will also contribute to redefining management consulting and utilize AI-powered applications.

Must Have

• Responsible for the conception, steering, and execution of client projects, ensuring excellence and impact.
• Responsible for building MVPs and products/product areas for clients and internally at hy.
• Validate ideas based on prototypes, analyze collected data, and define product visions, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Act as an interface to clients.
• Support the approach to redefine management consulting as an active team player.
• Independently use various AI-powered applications in your work.
• Initial professional experience in consulting, corporate innovation, company builder, or start-ups with experience in digital business models.
• Focus on analytical topics or experience in product development and technology integration.
• Master's degree or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of digital innovations, new technologies, and business models.
• Initial leadership experience.
• Ability to recognize patterns in large datasets and derive pragmatic recommendations.
• Well-maintained network of freelancers and agencies in product development.

Good to Have

• Experience founding a company or running a "side hustle".
• Team spirit based on cohesion, excellence, curiosity, and entrepreneurship.
• Authentic, confident presentation style.
• Fluent in English and German.
• Experience with no-code/low-code and AI-powered automation tools.
• Understanding of the implications of current AI developments for the business model.

Perks & Benefits

• Fair and transparent salary structures.
• Modern office in Kreuzberg.
• 28 vacation days per year, plus Christmas and New Year's Eve off.
• State-of-the-art hardware setup.
• Mobility offers (e.g., free Deutschland-Ticket and JobRad).
• Corporate Benefits platform via Axel Springer with exclusive advantages and discounts.
• Discounts on fitness offers from the Axel Springer family, plus internal subsidy for an Urban Sports Club M membership.
• FreeFood Initiative - subsidy for lunch/snacks and drinks in Axel Springer canteens and on the rooftop.
• Drinks, fruit basket, and foosball.
• Culture based on transparency, appreciation, and trust.
• Opportunity to participate in hy (dividends and potential exit).
• Full salary during child (emergency) care time without loss of earnings.
• Two weeks paid special leave for (married) partners after birth.
• Time blockers for personal topics, respected by all.
• Annual training budget of 1,000 € for professional and personal growth.
• Multi-day company retreat once a year.
• Extremely steep learning curve and transparent career development concept with two development dialogues per year.
• Concierge Service (at Axel Springer) - dry cleaning, flower services, shoe repair, tailoring, etc.
• 2 days paid special leave per year for charitable engagement.

Consultant (m/f/d) - Innovation and Ventures

hy is looking for a motivated Consultant for the Innovation and Ventures team to redefine consulting under our motto 'Redefine Consulting'. Find out how you can become part of the team!

Your Team

In the Innovation & Ventures team, we identify and develop promising growth opportunities and create sustainable solutions for the successful scaling of innovative business models.

With the systematic validation of business ideas along the dimensions of desirability, viability, and feasibility, we create the basis for sound entrepreneurial decisions. We advise our clients on the implementation of a business idea with regard to a build, partner, or investment strategy and actively support them as partners in its implementation. We consider the entire value chain, from intelligent supplier management and necessary transformation processes in production to digital customer interfaces in sales and communication. We also support our clients as competent co-entrepreneurs or investors in building an MVP, a Minimum Viable Venture, or in scaling existing business models. We always act as if it were our own business and always work for the success of our clients.

Your Mission

• You are responsible for the conception, steering, and execution of client projects and ensure the excellence and impact of the projects.
• You are responsible for building MVPs and products or product areas for our clients as well as internally at hy.
• You validate ideas based on prototypes and analyze collected data to define product visions, strategies, and roadmaps.
• You act as an interface to our clients.
• You support the approach to redefine management consulting in your role as an active team player.
• You independently use various AI-powered applications in your work.

What we wish for

• You bring initial professional experience in demanding environments such as consulting, corporate innovation, company builder or start-ups with extensive experience in the development and realization of new digital business models.
• Your focus was primarily on analytical topics or you have gained experience in product development and technology integration.
• A big plus is if you have already founded a company yourself or run a "side hustle".
• You have a Master's degree or equivalent.
• You bring a deep understanding of digital innovations, new technologies, and business models.
• You have initial leadership experience. Communication with various stakeholders is not a problem for you.
• Large datasets do not deter you. On the contrary, they allow you to recognize patterns that you creatively process with your outstanding analytical skills to derive pragmatic recommendations.
• You have a well-maintained network of freelancers and agencies in the broader product development environment.

What else you can score with

• Your team spirit, based on our values of cohesion, excellence, curiosity, and entrepreneurship, distinguishes you.
• Your presentation style is authentic, confident, and you are fluent in English and German.
• You have already gained experience with no-code/low-code and AI-powered automation tools and understand the implications of current AI developments for our business model.

What is a matter of course for us

• Fair and transparent salary structures.
• With our modern office in Kreuzberg, we offer you an ideal working environment.
• 28 vacation days a year, plus Christmas and New Year's Eve off.
• State-of-the-art hardware setup.
• Mobility offers, e.g., free Deutschland-Ticket and JobRad.
• Corporate Benefits platform via Axel Springer with exclusive advantages and discount campaigns.
• Discounts on fitness offers from the Axel Springer family, as well as an internal subsidy for an Urban Sports Club M membership #hyenergy.
• FreeFood Initiative - subsidy for lunch/snacks and drinks in the Axel Springer canteens and on the rooftop.
• ... and last but not least: drinks, fruit basket, and foosball ;-)

What makes us special

• A culture based on transparency, appreciation, and trust, which puts the people at hy at the center.
• Opportunity to participate in hy: You benefit from dividends and potential exit of a rapidly growing company.
• During child (emergency) care time, hy pays your full salary - completely without loss of earnings.
• In the first weeks after birth, (married) partners receive two weeks of paid special leave.
• Time blockers for your personal topics, which are respected by everyone without exception.
• Annual training budget of 1,000 € for what makes you grow - professionally and personally.
• Multi-day company retreat once a year.
• Extremely steep learning curve and transparent career development concept with two development dialogues per year.
• Concierge Service (at Axel Springer) - dry cleaning, flower services, shoe repair, tailoring, etc.
• As a company, we want to give back and enable our employees to engage for a good cause, either as a team or individually - during working hours. For this purpose, every hy employee receives 2 days of paid special leave per year to engage in charitable activities.

All different, all smart

As an equal opportunity employer, hy is committed to a diverse, inclusive, and healthy work environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of ethnicity, skin color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Dear women, don't hold back! Research shows that women set the bar lower than men and only apply for a position when they are highly qualified for a specific position. So if you believe you meet some but not necessarily all of the criteria we require, please still contact us. We look forward to hearing from you and jointly checking if we are a good fit.

Start date

Immediately

Your path to our team

• We will review your application documents and get back to you within 5 working days.
• Introductory meeting with our People Team via video call – 30 minutes.
• Interview with the Team Lead (and possibly another team member) via video call - 45 minutes.
• Case Study - 75 minutes.
• Offer.

About us

Thinking consulting differently, rethinking it, developing it further – that's what we do at hy. We redefine consulting. Our team consists of founders and executives with many years of corporate expertise. hy thus combines the best of both worlds. Since 2017, our team has grown from six to over 50 colleagues. To ensure this growth is sustainable and to adapt dynamically to changing requirements, we are building a partner organization at hy. Colleagues within an expert team work together on projects within their core competence and are holistically responsible for everything – from client acquisition to project implementation. To show how hy actually ticks, we have captured the most important aspects of our corporate culture on 50 pages.

Department: Innovation and Ventures

Role: Consultant

Locations: Berlin

Workplace (on-site, home office...): Hybrid

Contact Franziska Woyde Lead HR Business Partner – People and Organization

About Axel Springer hy GmbH

Data-driven. Entrepreneurial. Opinionated. hy is a new generation consulting firm in innovation, pricing, sales, and digital transformation. We help our clients turn their most ambitious growth plans into reality.

REDEFINE CONSULTING – WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT

Founded 2017

Employees 50