Chief of Staff

**The Role**:
We're looking for a results driven **Chief of Staff (M/F/d)**who will operate as a strategic right hand to the management, helping steer the company through complex growth, high-impact partnerships, and mission-critical initiatives in the defence technology space. You will coordinate across teams, facilitate strategic planning, and ensure that execution matches ambition. You’ll be joining a forward-thinking German dual-use technology company that develops autonomous unmanned ground systems for both defense and commercial use. With a strong international presence and a dynamic team, this role offers a chance to shape recruiting initiatives in a high-growth environment.

**To join our team, you should be excited to**:

- Act as the management's strategic partner supporting decision-making, internal alignment, and external visibility
- Drive operational excellence across the company by identifying gaps, removing blockers, and enabling rapid execution
- Lead and manage cross-functional strategic initiatives (e.g., go-to-market launches, fundraising, government outreach)
- Serve as an internal sounding board ensuring the leadership team are focused on the right priorities at the right time
- Protect leadership bandwidth by filtering information and surfacing what matters most.

**Your Profile**:

- 2-5 years of experience ideally in consultancies, scale-ups, or innovation teams of corporates
- Excellent project management skills, building slides and spreadsheets for daily business use cases with an analytical, structured, and process-oriented approach
- Professional and clear communication in both written and verbal form
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and be able to lead something with little input/context
- A natural ability to build and maintain relationships and anticipate needs and challenges as well as think ahead
- Resilient, persistent, and proactive attitude as well as trustworthy with confidential information
- Business-level proficiency in both **German and English** is a must
- Excited by in-person collaboration and willingness to travel from time to time

**Benefits and Perks**:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- A shaping role in an emerging dual use company
- Opportunity to work with a highly innovative, international, and dynamic team
- Room for professional growth and development
- Participation in the company's success, with access to regular events, knowledge exchange and meetups

**About us**: