Strategy & Operations Lead

You sit inside the Founders' Office and work on the decisions that set SPREAD's direction. You own the strategy cycle and translate it into company goals and OKRs; you drive the strategic and improvement initiatives that come out of it, and you run the operating rhythm that keeps the leadership team deciding and the company executing.

What you'll do

• Own the strategy cycle from analysis through to a written strategy the leadership team commits to, then translate it into company OKRs, goals, and the quarterly review rhythm that keeps every team measured against them.
• Drive strategic and improvement initiatives end to end. Recent examples include improving our cross-functional delivery model, leveling up our performance management system, building out our competitor intelligence, and rolling AI agents out company-wide.
• Run the operating rhythm of the leadership team across the weekly leadership meeting, monthly workshops, and half-year offsites. Set the agenda, prepare the discussions and decisions, and track every decision and task.
• Own the monthly company Assembly, from storyline to deck, so every team leaves knowing where SPREAD stands, where we are going, and what it means for their work.
• Build and steer SPREAD's partner ecosystem across hyperscalers, systems integrators, strategy consultancies, and tech companies, and convert those relationships into commercial opportunities, co-marketing and integrated offerings.
• Manage SPREAD's portfolio of senior industry advisors, former executives from the automotive and defense industry, to generate commercial opportunities and capture deep industry insights and expertise.
• Step into selected high-stakes commercial opportunities and ongoing engagements alongside Sales, Product, Value Realization, and Engineering, bringing structure and pace.

What you'll need

• 4+ years in strategy consulting, investment banking, or an operating strategy role inside a scale-up, with end-to-end ownership of your own workstreams and direct exposure to the client side.
• Deep understanding of the automotive and/or defense industry. You know how a vehicle or a defense platform moves from requirement to development to integration to testing to production to field service, and you can hold that conversation with a senior engineering leader.
• Business-fluent German and English, because both appear in the same week across leadership meetings, partner negotiations, customer conversations, and investor material.
• A strong analytical toolkit covering quantitative analysis and executive-level materials. You do the analysis, and you write the slide that makes it decision-ready.
• Track record of driving decisions with executive stakeholders, including the judgment to know which questions belong in the room and which you resolve before the meeting starts.
• Experience turning strategy into action, whether through OKRs, a goal cascade, or an operating rhythm you designed and ran yourself.
• AI-native working style. You use AI tools daily to scale your output across research, analysis, drafting, and workflow automation.
• Based in Berlin or close enough for regular in-office collaboration.

What they offer

• Attractive compensation and annual learning budget
• Workation options
• Deutschlandticket mobility budget and Urban Sports Club partnership
• 30 vacation days and one paid volunteering day per year
• Lunch provided three times per week in Berlin office