Team Lead

**Your way into the future**:
**Join us as Team Lead - Optics Design (M/F/d) and work with us on changing the future**

**What awaits you at Mynaric**:

- Provide leadership for the Optics Design Team. Allocate human and physical resources to ongoing projects, resolve resource conflicts, ensure good coordination and provide reporting as required.
- Be very proactive in creating synergies with other disciplines to ensure smooth project execution, clear roadblocks and achieve efficiencies.
- Contribute with own design work to highly complex tasks. Able to fully own and execute design work at system and subsystem.
- Lead or contribute to multi-disciplinary task forces targeted at solving technical issues, preparing proposals, conducting feasibility studies and securing opportunities.
- Provide disciplinary leadership: Manage and motivate the team, monitor execution, manage performance, decide on recruitment, promotions and salary reviews. Ensure that the size of the team and the skills available are in line with the company’s business objectives. Foster a collaborative and innovative working environment where people can perform at their best.
- Contribute to the development of processes and methodologies. Ensure that existing company processes, best practices and quality standards are maintained and developed to keep pace with industry trends.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to team members, assisting with problem solving and technical challenges.
- Consult the Sales and Business Development on future projects.
- Challenge the status quo in aerospace and ensure that tasks being done are the maximum value added for the reliability of our products while cutting out unnecessary process waste.

**What you bring with you**:

- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Physics, Astronomy, Optical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in designing complex optical systems.
- 2+ years of experience in either a people management position (Team Leader level) or project / technical management position where leadership, technical coordination and motivation are fundamental in successful execution of projects.
- Proven ability to coordinate across disciplines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Comfortable in taking decisions under significant uncertainty and incomplete or inconclusive data.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Familiarity with relevant industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements.
- Good written and spoken English and / or German communication skills.

**What we offer you**:
**Be part of the company that is changing the world**
Have you always wanted to wear your favourite space outfit to work? Then you are exactly the
right fit for us Forget the office politics and come and work with inspiring colleagues from all
over the world as you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and
challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity.

We offer you permanent employment, varied areas of responsibility, and attractive employee.
benefits. Mynaric is absolutely committed to being an equal opportunity employer so we
disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

**About us**:
Mynaric produces optical fiber for the skies and, as a pioneer in laser communications, enables extremely fast and secure wireless data transmission between satellites, drones and the ground. The products are used by well-known international technology companies to build global communication networks. The emerging Internet over the clouds will connect the previously disconnected 3 billion people, bring the Internet of Things to the remotest corners of the earth and make international communication more secure than ever.