Expansion Lead
FullTimeJob Overview
Your Impact
Tacto is redefining manufacturing with its Procurement Intelligence platform that 300+ manufacturers in DACH already use every day. We've found product-market fit, retention is strong, and the pipeline keeps growing fast. Now we want to level up our ambition and grow beyond our proven core into the largest industrial groups in DACH.
Enterprise is our next major revenue stream and one of the most strategic bets we're making this year. The motion is fundamentally different from what got us here. Longer cycles, higher stakes, more stakeholders, bigger budgets. The playbook doesn't exist yet, and we're hiring you to build it.
You'll own this expansion vector end to end. From day one, you're the person figuring out how Tacto wins inside the largest industrial groups in the region, and if it works, you build the team and lead the practice.
Your Tasks
Explore the opportunity. Research, size, and validate how Tacto creates the most value inside enterprise accounts. The strategic direction is clear, you figure out the fastest path to revenue.
Get your hands dirty. Build your own pipeline from scratch, run the sales cycles, and close the deals yourself. Outbound, discovery, exec workshops, commercials, contract close.
Engage at the top. Walk into rooms with CPOs, CFOs, and management board members at some of Europe's most important industrial companies, and earn their trust.
Build repeatable systems. Turn messy learnings into playbooks others can run, on pricing, messaging, sales cycles, stakeholder engagement, and pilot design. You write the playbook because you ran it.
Orchestrate cross-functionally. Work hand in hand with Product, Sales, CX, and Procurement Advisory to make the enterprise motion work end to end.
Scale what works. Once the motion is proven, you hire your team and build the growth engine.
Your Profile
5+ years in high-performance environments. Tier 1 management consulting at Project Lead / Engagement Manager level or higher, VC-backed startup, or as a founder. Industrial / manufacturing exposure is a strong plus.
You can own complex projects end to end without anyone looking over your shoulder.
You've earned credibility with senior stakeholders and you're equally comfortable cold-calling a procurement lead the next morning.
Strong problem-solving, sharp communication, high agency.
You're comfortable building from nothing. The research phase, the first cold call, the awkward early demos where the pitch isn't polished yet.
Native German, fluent English. Industry touchpoints in DACH industrial / Mittelstand are a strong plus.
Who Thrives Here (and Who Doesn't)
This role is for people who can move fast between thinking and doing. You're not starting from zero. There's a proven product, a strong customer base, and clear strategic direction. But the enterprise playbook doesn't exist yet, and you'll need to figure out what works through real-world execution, not slide decks. If you need perfectly defined processes or clear KPIs from day one, this will feel frustrating. If you've been waiting for the chance to actually own the outcome instead of recommending it, you'll love it here.
Interview Process
Intro call with our Chief of Staff
Deep dive with our Head of Revenue, the person you'd report to
Get-to-know call with our CEO
Case study + meet the team
Why Tacto
Real ownership: You define the where, the how, and the pace. 20% strategy with the Sr. Leadership team, 80% in the field
A strong foundation to build on: 300+ customers, product-market fit proven, backed by Sequoia and Index. The product works - your job is to take it into adjacent markets and segments
The team: 100+ people, founded by CDTM/TUM/Berkeley alumni. You work directly with the Sr. Leadership Team
AI-native product: We ship AI features continuously and are building for the AI endgame
Munich, hybrid (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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