Operations & Strategy Lead, All Genders

Klim

Operations & Strategy lead in a Berlin-based AgriTech startup driving strategic execution across cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with company goals and impact. Join to make a difference in sustainable agriculture.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will own and drive cross-functional execution across key processes connecting commercial/sales, farmer account management, MRV (measurement/monitoring, reporting, verification), scientific modelling, product, engineering, agronomy and finance. This includes setting up or re-thinking some of our most critical business processes and parts of our operating model
Drive alignment across teams: clarify owners, timelines, dependencies, and escalation paths.
Lead process improvement: map workflows, remove bottlenecks, increase automation/documentation, and improve reliability.
Ensure execution through meetings, stakeholder management, decision support and documentation
Support strategic decisions with strong content input (option framing, trade-offs, recommendations), driving the convergence of commercial thinking and client/farmer needs with both operational complexities and the impact we want to generate.
Improve leadership and management cadence (e.g. supporting our extended leadership team).
Design and build practical KPI dashboards and the corresponding setup and processes to strengthen data-driven steering.
Support transformation towards AI-enabled business operations: Identify and implement fast AI/automation wins across teams.
You will take ownership of high-priority operational topics end-to-end (e.g., data/client/process incidents)

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bright and curious mind: Strong academic background and the desire to dive deep into a highly complex business model with conceptual, commercial, agricultural, technological, regulatory and operational challenges - and the prospect of generating massive impact by improving soil health at scale
Strategic thinker with strong execution skills: 4-8 years of operational or project management experience, able to combine commercial/strategic judgment with a bias for hands-on execution and follow-through.
Structured Problem Solver: Exceptional attention to detail, capable of deeply understanding complex problems (content and process), aggregating them into clear decision options with commercial implications.
Scaling and Process Expertise: Proven ability to bring structure to rapidly scaling organisations and implement pragmatic, non-bureaucratic process improvements.
Stakeholder Management & Influence: Comfortable in complex, fast-paced environments, with strong communication, accountability, and influence across all seniority levels.
Data-Driven & High Ownership: Highly analytical, KPI-fluent, comfortable building effective management dashboards, and demonstrates high ownership, resilience, and speed in both strategic and tactical work.
Required Languages: Fluent in English; German is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity: Be part of our journey from the very beginning, working on an equal footing with the leadership team to build a new company.
Impact: Make a daily and active contribution to combating climate change, promoting consumer education, and fostering fair conditions for our climate-conscious farmers.
Autonomy: Take ownership of your projects and enjoy a high degree of creative freedom.
Flexible work model: At Klim, we foster a flexible, hybrid work approach and facilitate remote work (within the EU). It is advantageous for this role if you live in Berlin or can be present in our office regularly.
Additional benefits for full time, permanent employees: We offer membership in the Urban Sports Club or subsidisation of the Deutschlandticket, a company pension scheme, plus team lunches (if based in Berlin) and regular team events.

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Hard Skills & Tools

process improvementworkflow mappingKPI dashboard designdata analysisAI implementationautomationproject managementstakeholder managementstrategic decision supportcommercial judgment

Soft Skills

strong execution skillsstructured problem solvingattention to detailcommunicationinfluenceaccountabilityresiliencehigh ownershipstrategic thinkingcuriosity