The Role
Own the company strategy cadence, including annual reviews, quarterly milestones, OKRs, and leadership reporting. Manage the roadmap process, dependencies, interfaces, and priorities while partnering with SciTech teams. Build and operate the technology partnership ecosystem, including partner mapping, governance, onboarding, working groups, and joint development collaborations. Support strategic partnerships with organizations such as Siemens Energy and Fusion Hubs.
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Who we areWhy Marvel Fusion
Your responsibilitiesFounded in 2019, Marvel Fusion is Europe’s leading fusion energy company, uniting 120 scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs across our locations in Munich and Colorado.
Backed by over €385 million in public and private funding, we’re driven by a shared mission: to deliver clean, abundant energy to the world.
By joining us, you will be:
- Solving one of the most complex technological challenges known to humanity, harnessing Fusion on Earth
- Part of a highly purpose-driven team working on providing the world with clean, safe and abundant energy
- Working alongside world-leading scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of Fusion
- Part of a start-up where growth on a company and individual level is the default
- Build and operate Marvel Fusion's ecosystem and alliance program, modelled on leading industry alliance programs: partner mapping, alliance governance, onboarding, and working-group cadence.
- Structure and advance technology collaborations aligned to the roadmap, including MoUs, JDAs, and joint development agreements, with judgement on partner selection, timing and location.
- Own selected strategic partnerships and programs directly, including the Fusion Hubs.
- Lead the coordination and delivery of public funding projects (IPCEI, Milestone-based-funding, Hubs): consortium setup, partner steering, manage internal bid narrative creation, and submission against fixed external deadlines.
- Maintain the funding and partnership pipeline: a live view of instruments and prospective partners, with go or no-go recommendations against roadmap fit together with Corporate Affairs
- Represent Marvel Fusion with industry partners, research institutes, consortia and Projektträger.
- University degree in engineering, industrial engineering, physics or a related technical field. A combined technical and business background is welcome.
- 3+ years in technology partnerships, consortium management, public funding or corporate development in a technical or industrial environment.
- Demonstrated experience building or operating a partner or alliance programme, not only managing individual bilateral relationships.
- Track record with German or EU public funding (BMBF, BMWK, Horizon Europe, IPCEI or comparable), including consortium setup and partner steering.
- Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders across industry partners, research institutes and consortia, and to assemble input from people who do not report to them.
- Strong technical understanding and genuine affinity for deep tech topics; can hold a substantive conversation with physicists and engineers.
- Commercially literate: reads a project budget, structures a consortium cost split, and supports negotiation of an MoU.
Our mission is motivation enough for many. But we also support our team with benefits that foster wellbeing and growth:
- Public transport reimbursement
- EGYM Wellpass fitness club access
- Complimentary health insurance
- Professional development support
- Company pension plan
- Healthy office snacks
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Skills Required
- Sharp strategic thinking and ability to set direction and build execution processes
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Technical background with willingness to understand physics and engineering concepts deeply
- 3-4 years of experience in operations and strategy at a deep tech startup, such as aerospace, biotech, or energy
- Significant experience rolling out OKRs
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The Company
What We Do
Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by developing a laser-driven fusion power plant.
