Your Impact

Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. After being the clear leader in our space, we want to now grow our ambition again in terms of scale and impact on our customers. We think that AI is revolutionizing how our organization and our product work, and we want to thrive and shape the future. We're scaling with a high-performing team to develop the frontier in industrial AI, the opportunity for Europe. We have very high expectations of our people (and our people for our organization). Our ambition is to be the lighthouse organization for industrial AI in Europe (and beyond).

As Chief of Staff you are making our ambition reality. You are a member of our core leadership team, you work directly with André (CEO) to make sure the company's most important priorities actually move forward with a focus on our organization and talent. You turn ambition into clarity, clarity into structure, and structure into outcomes.

At Tacto, we believe everyone should be hands-on - especially leadership. We've found that combining talent & organizational development ownership with the CoS role is a natural fit: it keeps recruiting close to the CEO and gives you direct influence over the single biggest lever we have, our people. You'll own our entire talent function E2E - with a team reporting to you - and collaborate directly with André on org development topics like performance management, leadership development, and AI enablement. As you prove yourself or as priorities evolve, your scope might grow into expansion, cross-functional strategy, or wherever you want it to be. For the good and bad: you have complete freedom to build here with high expectations and full support.

It's a hands-on, high-trust, and very demanding role at the center of our growth story - ideal for someone who wants to build a company from the inside and see real impact fast.

Your Tasks

Drive strategic priorities forward: You are part of our leadership team and make sure strategic priorities translate into real progress across the organization, decisions are well-prepared, and nothing critical falls through the cracks
Own Talent end-to-end: Build and run our talent engine across all departments with a team that you manage. Identify, engage, and close the best talent in the market. You're building the team that builds the company
Support & drive Org Development: Collaborate directly with our CEO on performance management, comp & career frameworks, AI enablement, and leadership development. Some of these you'll own, some you'll co-own - either way, you make sure they move
Keep Tacto at the AI frontier: We're already deeply AI-native, but the frontier changes every week. Your job is to make sure we stay ahead - pushing every team to find the next level of leverage, adopting new tools fast, and ensuring nobody in the market works smarter than we do
Keep the organization aligned: Make sure 100+ people understand not just what we're doing, but why. Drive change management, own internal communication on key decisions, and ensure cross-functional initiatives don't stall in complexity
Grow your scope: Depending on your profile and how fast you progress, the role expands - into market expansion, cross-functional strategy, or other CEO-level priorities. The ceiling is as high as you make it

Your Profile

3–5+ years in a high-performance environment - Tier 1 consulting, VC, high-growth startup, banking, or you've founded something yourself
You combine structured problem-solving with raw execution speed
You have a super high bar for great people - you know what excellence looks like (e.g. from environments like CDTM, MBB, A+ startups)
You're outgoing - you genuinely like working with people, convincing them, and building relationships
You're deeply AI-native - you use AI tools daily and are excited about pushing an entire organization to do the same
High agency, good taste, and the resilience to sustain intense workloads over extended periods

We know nobody is perfect. If the role sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you - whether you check every box or not.

Who thrives here (and who doesn't)

This role is for someone who wants to be at the center of a fast-scaling company. You'll start by owning Talent and Org Development because that's where the biggest impact is right now, but the role is designed to evolve. If you want a pure strategy role or a neatly scoped job description, this will feel frustrating. This role comes with very demanding expectations and is for people who prioritize ownership, growth, and impact. If you want to own the organization's most important priorities, build things from scratch, and grow your scope as fast as you can handle it.

Why Tacto

You own what matters most: You won't do busywork but own one of our most important priorities (winning and developing the best possible talent) from day one and collaborate directly with our leadership team on org development topics
You have freedom to build: You have clear expectations, but complete freedom and full support to build here at Tacto, the limit is your agency and taste.
Core leadership team from day one: You work directly with the CEO and Senior Leadership and will help shape our most important decisions
Full ownership: There's no manual for this role. You define how we operate, how we scale, and how we stay ahead
AI-native company, AI-native role: Tacto ships AI features daily and is building for the AI endgame. You'll drive AI adoption not just in product, but across every function in the company
Top-notch team: 100+ people, founded by CDTM/TUM/Berkeley alumni, backed by Sequoia and Index
Munich (4+ days in office): Competitive compensation + equity

Our Background

Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform, trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material.

Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans.

Why It Matters

Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives.

But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms, manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europe's strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI.

Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits, empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech.

What We Offer

The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization, growing themselves, and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. You'll grow at the forefront of AI, have real ownership and impact, and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding, but that's where we thrive. Besides that you have:

Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success
Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich
Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people, e.g., Lunch & Learns, peer mentoring, external speakers
Freetime: 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”) as well as regular off-sites and team events
Health: Wellpass membership, of course, a fruit basket (!), and access to Jobrad, for your health
Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution, voluntary KITA subsidy for your children

Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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