Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Project
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will help develop ambitious systems by acting as the operational and strategic backbone of Systems Architecture, managing cross-functional projects to create sustainable processes.
Your role in the team
- Help translate ambition into systems that last.
- You will work directly with the Chief Scientist as the operational and strategic backbone of Systems Architecture.
- You interface across all Sys. Arch. teams and contribute to external-facing work: board reporting, strategy offsites, stakeholder engagement.
- Your instinct is to build systems that outlast your involvement, creating durable processes rather than personal dependencies, and leaving things in better shape than you found them.
- Your technical background gives you the judgment to operate credibly in a deeply technical environment and to design internal infrastructure that's coherent, low-friction, and built to last.
- When cross-cutting initiatives arise, special projects that need a clear owner and draw on expertise from multiple teams you're the person who picks them up and sees them through.
- Support the Chief Scientist on projects within their scope, and help draft and communicate the department's strategy, plans, and priorities.
- Build and maintain systems across Sys. Arch. teams that support rapid development: coherent reporting formats, decision-making processes, and operational cadences.
- Coordinate cross-team special projects, for example, aligning Proxima with an external stakeholder and converging on a clear direction, and consolidate information across teams into a decision-ready form.
- Interface with external stakeholders on high-priority topics; contribute to board reporting and prepare the department's quarterly strategy sessions.
- Scope and drive strategic projects and organisational change, proactively identifying bottlenecks before they slow the department down.
- Support budget planning for the department.
- Own the people side of the department: improving onboarding, sourcing candidates through your domain network, to guiding hires from first contact to onboarding.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- A Master's degree in a technical field such as physics or engineering is an advantage, though we consider equivalent professional experience equally.
Qualifications
- You have a technical background and can move comfortably between 'plasma beta' and '316LN steel'.
- You are comfortable in high-growth teams.
- You take things to the finish line, not the 80% mark, hands-on, accountable, and driven by impact and urgency.
- You switch cleanly between strategic thinking and execution mode, navigating multi-stakeholder environments with ease and bringing professionalism to everything you touch.
- You are an excellent written communicator and presenter, capable of producing board-ready materials that land with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- You are willing to question the status quo, put in the hours when it matters, and take on new challenges with urgency.
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What we offer
- This role sits at L3 of our framework, please inquire during the recruitment process for further information.
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Proxima Fusion
Proxima Fusion GmbH, founded in 2023 in Munich, focuses on the development of the world's first commercial fusion power plant. The company employs innovative stellarator technology and modern methods such as machine learning to create market-ready fusion facilities by the early 2030s. As a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Proxima Fusion benefits from a strong connection to the European research landscape.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Power Sector, Economy
Chief of Staff, Systems Architecture
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
