(Senior) Manager Strategy & Corporate Development

About the role

You will operate at the absolute center of Bunch's highest-stakes initiatives, translating ambiguous founder vision into concrete, completed projects that move the business forward. As a senior member of the Founders' Office at Bunch, you will take the company's highest-priority projects from "we need to do this" to done, owning cross-functional initiatives end-to-end. You will define the problem statement from scratch, align conflicting stakeholder priorities without formal authority, and personally drive the analysis and execution required to close critical gaps. Your work will directly determine which strategic bets the company pursues and how they are implemented across commercial, product, and operational dimensions. You will take charge of initiatives that cut across departments, stepping into commercial, product, or operations as needed to ensure alignment and delivery of outcomes. You will be responsible for conducting opportunity assessments to provide clear recommendations that support the Founders in identifying new areas for growth and rigorously evaluating new markets, business lines, and products. You will manage significant scope, either running one large, complex project with multiple workstreams or several parallel initiatives, always ensuring follow-through on commitments.

Key facts

What you'll do

• As a senior member of the Founders' Office at Bunch, you will take the company's highest-priority projects from "we need to do this" to done, owning cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
• You will Your Role.
• Lead high-importance, high-urgency strategic projects end-to-end - defining the problem, coordinating stakeholders (including senior leadership), running the analysis yourself, and driving projects to completion.
• Take charge of initiatives that cut across departments, stepping into commercial, product, or operations as needed to ensure alignment and delivery of outcomes.
• Conduct opportunity assessments to provide recommendations that support the Founders in identifying new areas for growth and evaluating new markets, business lines, and products.
• Depending on scale, run one large project with multiple workstreams or several projects in parallel.
• Identify what the company should work on next and make it happen.
• You will About you.
• years of experience in high-velocity environments (top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking, or a high-growth VC-backed startup), ideally with hands-on startup experience.
• Independent and proactive - you identify what needs to happen and move it forward without waiting for direction.
• Able to bring the right people in early, build alignment across functions and with senior stakeholders without needing authority, and manage multiple workstreams without dropping balls.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills - able to break down ambiguous problems, identify root causes, and turn data into actionable insights.
• Experienced in designing and executing analyses end-to-end, QA'ing your own work rigorously, and delivering outputs that drive decisions.
• Structures recommendations with a clear "so what" - quantifies trade-offs, flags risks, and proposes a preferred path.
• Comfortable pushing back on work that doesn't serve the company's top priorities, including your own.
• Curious about new tools and quick to adopt what makes you faster
• AI-assisted research, drafting, and analysis - while understanding their limits and building your own workflows around them.
• You need Fluent English required; German is a plus.
• You need Workplace & Benefits.
• You will use aws. You will use go.

Requirements

• You must possess years of experience in high-velocity environments, specifically within top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking, or a high-growth VC-backed startup, with a demonstrated track record of hands-on startup experience.
• You must be able to independently identify necessary actions, build alignment across diverse functions and with senior stakeholders, and simultaneously manage multiple workstreams without failing to deliver on any critical task.
• You must demonstrate strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities, including the ability to deconstruct ambiguous and complex problems, pinpoint root causes, and transform raw data into clear, actionable insights.
• You must have extensive experience in conceiving, designing, executing, and quality-assuring analyses from start to finish, ensuring that your outputs are robust, reliable, and directly influence high-stakes decision-making.
• You must structure your strategic recommendations with a clear "so what," explicitly quantifying trade-offs, highlighting associated risks, and articulating a preferred course of action.
• You must be comfortable challenging and pushing back on work that does not align with the company's top strategic priorities, even if that work is your own initiative.
• You must be intensely curious about emerging tools and methodologies, rapidly adopting technologies such as AI-assisted research, drafting, and analysis that genuinely increase your velocity, while always recognizing the constraints and limitations of these tools.
• You must be fluent in English, which is a non-negotiable requirement for this position; proficiency in German is considered a significant advantage.
• You must be eligible to work in Germany and have the right to live and work in the country without requiring additional visa sponsorship, as this role is based in Berlin.

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Practical notes

This is a full-time, onsite position based in Berlin, Germany. The role requires immediate availability or the ability to start work without delay due to the high-stakes nature of the projects managed. You must be legally authorized to work in Germany and cannot require visa sponsorship, ensuring you can begin employment as soon as necessary. Fluency in English is mandatory for success in this role, while conversational German skills are noted as a beneficial addition for deeper integration with local teams and stakeholders. You will utilize tools such as AWS for infrastructure and Go for development tasks, meaning prior familiarity with these technologies or a rapid ability to learn them will be essential. No specific working hour range is stated beyond the expectation of full-time commitment to demanding strategic initiatives.