# Chief of Staff

- Company: [Bowatt](<https://jobstar.asia/company/bowatt>)
- Location: Munich
- Team: Operations
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: August 31, 2026

## Job description

**About BoWatt**

BoWatt is building **agentic requirements and system engineering software for manufacturing**. We believe AI will reach **PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years**. This will unlock massive value across several complex manufacturing industries. Cars. Planes. Rockets. Factories. Chips. Medical devices. All will be engineered with agents.

We bootstrapped BoWatt to **€500k+ ARR** before raising our first round. BoWatt is backed by **tier-1 investors**, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.

You’ll join a small, exceptional team of startup builders, driven by innovation and execution. **Over half the team are former founders** across DeepTech AI, psychedelics, and gaming. We’ve studied and worked at top institutions and companies like **Stanford, TUM, Google, EA**, and **YC**-backed AI startups.

**The role**

* Partner with our CEO, Steven, to set priorities, make trade-offs, and ensure the company stays focused on the work that matters most
* Take on whatever's breaking, slowing us down, or the bottleneck to our growth
* Drive important projects from definition through execution, working across fundraising, product, engineering, sales, customer success, people, and operations
* Own and improve key people operations, including hiring plans, recruiting processes, onboarding, team development, and company culture
* Impactful culture and energy setter across the company. Build deep relationships with everyone, be an "always on" context connector across the company.
* Take ownership wherever the company most needs it. The scope of the role will evolve alongside BoWatt

**You**

* **Exceptional** **Generalist**: you are an exceptional generalist who can quickly understand unfamiliar problems and turn ambiguity into a clear plan
* **Clear communicator**: you write clearly, speak confidently, and know how to get to the point
* **High judgment**: you have strong judgment and know how to prioritize when everything feels important
* **Speed**: you thrive in a fast-moving startup environment where responsibilities are broad, priorities can change, and there is significant freedom to shape how the company operates
* **Team-oriented**: you build trust across different teams and can align people without relying on formal authority
* **Ambitious:** You set a high bar for yourself and care deeply about outcomes

**What we offer**

* Competitive salary based on experience
* 5–10% virtual equity package
* 25 vacation days/per yr, plus public holidays
* Company retreats
* WellPass membership

**Interview process**

* 20 min Screening interview
* 90 min Case interview
* 60 min Culture fit interview
* Reference calls
* Offer

We aim to complete the interview process within 14 days.

## Apply

[Apply on Bowatt](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bowatt/5a26e18e-75fd-455c-bee8-d453fa78eab6>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/chief-of-staff-bowatt-munich-a87f9e1de69ed158>
