Strategy & Operations Lead (f/m/d)

Job description

Short Description SPREAD builds engineering intelligence for the world's most complex products. Our AI-native platform gives automotive OEMs, defense primes, and industrial manufacturers a single source of product truth so engineering teams can make confident product decisions, fast. We work with companies like Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Bosch, and Rheinmetall. Backed by HV Capital, DTCP, La Famiglia, and Salesforce, and recognized with the SPARK AI Innovation Award and a place among LinkedIn's Top Startups in DACH. Role In this role, you sit inside the Founders' Office and work on the decisions that set SPREAD's direction. You own the strategy cycle and translate it into company goals and OKRs; you drive the strategic and improvement initiatives that come out of it, and you run the operating rhythm that keeps the leadership team deciding and the company executing. Alongside that, you own SPREAD's ecosystem of partners and senior industry advisors. You shape how the whole company hears about strategy through the monthly Assembly, and you build the material founders and the leadership team decide on. You report to the VP Strategy & Finance and work daily with the founders, the leadership team, and the people delivering the outcomes you help define. Your Mission Own the strategy cycle from analysis through to a written strategy the leadership team commits to, then translate it into company OKRs, goals, and the quarterly review rhythm that keeps every team measured against them. Drive strategic and improvement initiatives end to end. Recent examples include improving our cross-functional delivery model, leveling up our performance management system, building out our competitor intelligence, and rolling AI agents out company-wide. Run the operating rhythm of the leadership team across the weekly leadership meeting, monthly workshops, and half-year offsites. Set the agenda, prepare the discussions and decisions, and track every decision and task. Own the monthly company Assembly, from storyline to deck, so every team leaves knowing where SPREAD stands, where we are going, and what it means for their work. Build and steer SPREAD's partner ecosystem across hyperscalers, systems integrators, strategy consultancies, and tech companies, and convert those relationships into commercial opportunities, co-marketing and integrated offerings. Manage SPREAD's por…