Working Student / Thesis - Strategy Operations & Business Development (f/m/d)

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About TACTILIA</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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 team, culture and processes that make that possible.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will join at the moment when a strong product turns into a real business: how do we build the strategy, the partner and customer pipeline, and the operating rhythm that let us scale as fast as the technology allows?</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Working Student or thesis student in Strategy Operations &amp; Business Development, you will work directly with our Business Development lead and on the questions that decide how TACTILIA grows: which markets we go after, how we price and cost what we build, who our first partners and customers are, and how we prove our progress to the board.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Some days you're sizing a market or building a competitor teardown. Other days you're pulling together the numbers for a board update or helping shape a pricing model. Both matter equally here.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You Will Do</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Support business strategy and market sizing. Help translate our target markets and product priorities into clear numbers – market size, growth, and where the real opportunity sits.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Track the competitive landscape. Keep tabs on competitors, adjacent players, and relevant funding and product news, and turn it into insights the leadership team can actually use.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Help build our partner and customer pipeline. Research and qualify potential integrators, partners, and anchor customers, and prepare the materials that support outreach and first conversations.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Get our office and internal structures off the ground. Help plan and implement our office set-up and the practical structures a growing team needs on the ground – this is a hands-on part of the role, not just an analytical one.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Help build our internal reporting and steering tools. Contribute to the dashboards and processes that give the leadership team a real-time view of the business.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You Bring</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Currently studying business administration, industrial engineering, economics, or a related field (Bachelor's or Master's)</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– A structured, analytical way of working and genuine comfort with numbers and data</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Real interest in robotics, deep tech, or Physical AI</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Confident with Excel and PowerPoint, and quick to pick up new tools</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Fluent English; German is a plus</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">– Available for at least four to six months, whether as a working student or for a thesis project</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">At TACTILIA, you'll work on one of the hardest open problems in robotics: giving machines the dexterity, reliability, and robustness they need to interact with the physical world at industrial scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The technology is taking shape. The team is being built. And the standards for robotic hands and their skills are still wide open.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">That means your decisions will have a lasting impact – not just on a product, but on what comes next for Physical AI.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build the hand. Define the standard. Shape what comes next.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you're excited by the challenge of building robotic hands that work reliably in the real world, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>