Chief of Staff

YOUR IMPACT Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. After being the clear leader in our space, we want to now grow our ambition again in terms of scale and impact on our customers. We think that AI is revolutionizing how our organization and our product work, and we want to thrive and shape the future. We're scaling with a high-performing team to develop the frontier in industrial AI, the opportunity for Europe. We have very high expectations of our people (and our people for our organization). Our ambition is to be the lighthouse organization for industrial AI in Europe (and beyond). As Chief of Staff you are making our ambition reality. You are a member of our core leadership team, you work directly with André (CEO) to make sure the company's most important priorities actually move forward with a focus on our organization and talent. You turn ambition into clarity, clarity into structure, and structure into outcomes. At Tacto, we believe everyone should be hands-on - especially leadership. We've found that combining talent & organizational development ownership with the CoS role is a natural fit: it keeps recruiting close to the CEO and gives you direct influence over the single biggest lever we have, our people. You'll own our entire talent function E2E - with a team reporting to you - and collaborate directly with André on org development topics like performance management, leadership development, and AI enablement. As you prove yourself or as priorities evolve, your scope might grow into expansion, cross-functional strategy, or wherever you want it to be. For the good and bad: you have complete freedom to build here with high expectations and full support. It's a hands-on, high-trust, and very demanding role at the center of our growth story - ideal for someone who wants to build a company from the inside and see real impact fast. YOUR TASKS - Drive strategic priorities forward: You are part of our leadership team and make sure strategic priorities translate into real progress across the organization, decisions are well-prepared, and nothing critical falls through the cracks - Own Talent end-to-end: Build and run our talent engine across all departments with a team that you manage. Identify, engage, and close the best talent in the market. You're building the team that builds the company - Support & drive Org Development: Collaborate directly with our CEO on performance management, comp & career frameworks, AI enablement, and leadership development. Some of these you'll own, some you'll co-own - either way, you make sure they move - Keep Tacto at the AI frontier: We're already deeply AI-native, but the frontier changes every week. Your job is to make sure we stay ahead - pushing every team to find the next level of leverage, adopting new tools fast, and ensuring nobody in the market works smarter than we do - Keep the organization aligned: Make sure 100+ people understand not just what we're doing, but why. Drive change management, own internal communication on key decisions, and ensure cross-functional initiatives don't stall in complexity - Grow your scope: Depending on your profile and how fast you progress, the role expands - into market expansion, cross-functional strategy, or other CEO-level priorities. The ceiling is as high as you make it YOUR PROFILE - 3–5+ years in a high-performance environment - Tier 1 consulting, VC, high-growth startup, banking, or you've founded something yourself - You combine structured problem-solving with raw execution speed - You have a super high bar for great people - you know what excellence looks like (e.g. from environments like CDTM, MBB, A+ startups) - You're outgoing - you genuinely like working with people, convincing them, and building relationships - You're deeply AI-native - you use AI tools daily and are excited about pushing an entire organization to do the same - High agency, good taste,