Technical Sales & Funding Expert (m/f/d)

Job description

About PFASuiki GmbH PFASuiki is a deep-tech startup based in Oberhaching, south of Munich, developing electrochemical oxidation technology to destroy PFAS and other contaminated water challenges at the source. The team works to eliminate forever chemicals from industrial wastewater and landfill leachate to protect the environment and maintain compliance. The Technical Sales & Funding Expert (m/f/d) turns PFASuiki’s technical results into customer decisions, non-dilutive funding and regulatory clarity within a fast-paced deep-tech startup focused on PFAS destruction. PFASuiki’s platform concentrates PFAS and then destroys them on site by electrochemical oxidation. Reporting to the Head of Business Development and sales, this role bridges R&D, customers, funding bodies and authorities. It acts as the technical counterpart in pre-sales, turns lab and pilot data into reports and communications, owns the grant pipeline, and tracks PFAS regulation, IP and competitors. It works daily with the technology team, the laboratory team and the commercial team, so that engineers can keep their time on developing the technology and the platform. Key Responsibilities: Application & Sales Engineering Act as the technical counterpart for prospects in pre-sales: qualify water matrices, scope tests and answer technical objections. Build and maintain an objection-and-answer playbook on unit cost, energy per m³, electrode life, by-products and plant integration. Build techno-economic evaluations comparing PFASuiki’s technology other technologies targeting PFAS destruction. Write feasibility study proposals and reports for landfill operators, industrial sites and water utilities. Present the technology in customer meetings, at trade fairs and in technical webinars. Data to Narrative & Reporting Turn lab and pilot data (destruction rates, fluorine mass balance, LC-MS/MS results, energy use) into validation reports and customer-ready visuals. Produce a case study package for every completed pilot: validation report, technical webinar, LinkedIn and newsletter assets. Prepare charts and KPI pages for investor, board and Steering Committee reporting. Non-Dilutive Funding & Consortium Projects Identify, prepare and manage applications for governmental funding, public grants and related subsidies, owning the pipeline from call scouting and go/no-go to consortium building, drafting, budge…