This isn't a normal job. This is a front-row seat to building a company.
At avoltra, we help energy-intensive companies optimize their full energy lifecycle: from forecasting to procurement to flexibility monetization. We're building the agentic operating system for how large industrial players manage energy.
We already work with leading industrial companies and have proven customer value. What we don't have yet is a second pair of founder hands — someone who can pick up whatever matters most this quarter, own it properly, and hand it back as a system instead of a one-off.
As our Founding Chief of Staff, you work directly with the founders across everything outside engineering: customers, commercial, operations, and the strategic bets that decide where the company goes next. Your scope will change every few months. That's the job, not a bug in it.
And importantly: this role is designed to grow with you. Prove yourself, and it becomes a launchpad into growing within avoltra.
🚀 Own whatever matters most
Take the hardest open problem and close it. Whatever is currently stuck between the founders — a stalled account, an unclear pricing question, a tender we need to answer — becomes yours end-to-end, from analysis to decision to execution.Run customer accounts without a founder in the room. Onboard new customers, set up environments, ingest and preprocess data, and advise on procurement strategy, battery business cases, and production scheduling — using our product rather than a slide deck as the basis of the recommendation.Quantify the value we create. Build and present business reviews that show realized savings against baseline, and carry expansion from the first signal through champions, budget timing, and procurement to a signed extension.Drive strategic projects. Pricing and contract design, partnerships with asset providers, tender responses, new segments — the things that only get done if someone owns them full-time for six weeks.Run the company's operating rhythm. Goals, weeklies, investor updates, hiring processes, and the reporting that tells us honestly whether we're winning.⚙️ Build the engine
Turn what you do by hand into a system. Every onboarding, business review, and analysis you run becomes a template, a playbook, or a product requirement instead of tribal knowledge.Make the company legible. Define the metrics that matter and build the reporting behind them, so decisions get made on numbers rather than instinct.Drive structured discovery. Test hypotheses with real accounts, separate what customers say from what they'd pay for, and bring the findings back sharply.Shape the product. You sit closest to where the product meets reality; recurring friction and unmet needs become structured roadmap input.Build partnerships in the industry. Establish meaningful relationships with asset providers (batteries, flexibility hardware, service partners) that make our offering stronger.Build the bench. Help hire and onboard the people who will take pieces of your scope off you — that's the measure of success, not headcount under you.Represent avoltra in the market. Industry events, trade fairs, and expert conversations where credibility in the German energy world is earned.🚀 Learn faster than anywhere else
Go deep on German industrial energy: procurement and hedging, grid fees, flexibility markets, and how large plants actually make decisions.See every part of a company being built — customers, pricing, hiring, product, financing — from the seat next to the founders.Gain real influence over strategy and prioritization, not just responsibility for execution.Build the track record of someone who ran the operating core of a company from pre-seed onward, and can both own executive relationships and do the technical work underneath them.👩🚀 Why this role is different
You are our first dedicated non-engineering hire; the standard you set becomes the standard.Direct founder access on everything — there is no layer between you and the decisions.You'll work with some of the largest industrial energy consumers in Germany, with direct access to their decision makers.Your impact is immediate, visible, and compounding.This role has no ceiling: depending on your strengths it can grow into commercial leadership, a customer success or solutions function, or ownership of a business line as we scale.Enterprise-scale impact, startup-speed learning, equity in the journey.🎯 You'll thrive here if
You're a generalist who still goes deep — equally comfortable in a board-level meeting and in a messy data file at 9pm.You'd rather write the playbook than follow one, and ambiguity is the reason you're interested rather than the reason you hesitate.You think like an owner: you see what's missing and you close it, without waiting for a ticket.You'd rather be measured on outcomes than on activity.🧩 What we're looking for
A generalist track record with real ownership: strategy consulting, an early operator or founder role, or investing with hands-on operational work — plus evidence that you can go technical, not just analytical.Energy domain expertise is a strong plus. Without it, show us you can learn a technical domain fast and earn credibility with expert customers.Fluent German and English, written and spoken.Based in Munich or ready to relocate.🌟 What you can expect from us
Competitive Compensation Package: We value your skills and expertise; enjoy a salary that reflects your impact.Ownership & Growth from Day One: Take on responsibility from the start, tackle exciting challenges, and accelerate your career with a steep learning curve.Team Events & Culture: Join a vibrant team with fun social events, and a culture of open feedback and continuous learning.Your Ideal Work Setup: Choose the equipment and workspace that help you perform at your best.Flexible Working Hours & Locations: Work when and where you're most productive. We focus on outcomes, not office hours.‣
Application Next Steps
Please send your application including your CV, referrals (optional) and any questions you might have to franz.zuenkler@avoltra.io
You feel you don't tick every box?
No worries. We know the "perfect" candidate rarely exists. What matters most is your drive to learn, grow, and make an impact.
About avoltra
We're building avoltra to be the operating system for industrial energy
helping Europe's industrial backbone buy energy smarter and monetize their flexibility.
We help energy-intensive companies optimize their full energy lifecycle: from forecasting to procurement to flexibility monetization; turning complexity into clarity.
Developed hand-in-hand with our customers and grounded in 300+ expert interviews, our platform is live in production with industrial customers representing several TWh of annual energy demand.
We're backed by €2.3M from tier-1 investors; funded to move and scale fast.
In the next few years, avoltra becomes the standard for how large industrial players manage energy: hundreds of sites, TWh of demand optimized through our platform every day, savings and emissions cuts you can measure. We're early enough that the people we hire now shape what that becomes.
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