Chief of Staff (f/m/d)

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 experience in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment, such as a startup, scale-up, consulting, investment, strategy, operations, or another relevant leadership environment.
• Tool stack fluency/requirements Project management, collaboration and productivity tools?
• Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and strong presentation skills in PowerPoint/Google Slides.
• Excellent project and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate clearly with senior leaders and diverse teams.
• Strong judgment and the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
• A high level of ownership, initiative, and personal accountability.
• Comfortable working in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
• The ability to move seamlessly between high-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

BONUS:

• Exposure to a corporate spin-off or carve-out process — understanding how a new entity separates from and continues to work with a parent company
• Experience working in or with a startup or scale-up in robotics, deep-tech, or another hardware-intensive industry

As Chief of Staff, you will work closely with the leadership team, gain broad exposure across the organization, and have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the company's strategy, execution, and development.

You will join an ambitious team working on meaningful challenges and will have significant ownership from day one.

The next chapter of robotics won't be built in a lab. It will be built by people who care about what happens when technology meets the real world.

At TACTILIA, you'll work on one of the hardest open problems in robotics: giving machines the dexterity, reliability and robustness to interact with the physical world at industrial scale.

The technology is taking shape, the team is being built, and the standards around robotic hands and their skills are still open. That means your decisions will have a lasting impact — not just on a product, but on what comes next for Physical AI.

Build the hand. Define the standard. Shape what comes next.

If you're excited by the challenge of building robotic hands that works reliably in the real world, we'd love to hear from you.