Chief of Staff (f/m/d)

Job description

About TACTILIA: At TACTILIA, we are building the industry-ready robotic hand that closes one of the biggest gaps in Physical AI. Spun out of SCHUNK, the global market leader in gripping technology, we combine a decade of robotic-hand expertise and real industrial access with the speed and ambition of a deep-tech startup. This isn't a research project waiting for its first customer. We already have a product, customers are ready to use it, and we are launching now. Your work will directly shape the electronics, actuators, and embedded systems that make that possible. You will join at the moment when the hard engineering questions become real product decisions: how do we make a highly capable robotic hand reliable, manufacturable, serviceable, and simple enough to deploy on a real shop floor? The Role: TACTILIA is entering a new chapter as an independent company, following its spin-off from SCHUNK. As Chief of Staff, you will work closely with the leadership team as a key operational and strategic partner, helping shape and drive the company’s next phase of growth. This is a high-ownership role, you will operate across strategy, technology, product, business and operations, taking on the TACTILIA’s most important and ambiguous problems and driving them from idea to outcome. You will help build the operating infrastructure that allows TACTILIA to scale without losing its speed, ambition or quality. What you will do: Act as a trusted thought partner to the leadership and help drive the company’s highest-priority initiatives. Own the leadership´s operating rhythm, including strategic planning, leadership meetings, company priorities. Take ownership of complex cross-functional problems where no obvious owner exists from defining the problem through to execution. Build the processes, tools and systems that help TACTILIA operate more effectively as the team grows. Drive strategic and operational initiatives across technology, product, commercial, hiring and organisational development. Build and maintain a clear view of company performance, translating data into insights, priorities and actions. Partner with the leadership on headcount planning, resource allocation, partnerships, fundraising and other critical company decisions. Identify bottlenecks and opportunities before they become problems, and design pragmatic solutions. What you bring: Several years of experi…