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But it was the Formula Student team, building a race car, that showed me what engineering really feels like. The team and workshop shaped my entire career. Without it, MotionLab.Berlin would not exist.\" (Fridtjof Gustavs, MD & co-founder)\nThat is why we run the Tech Talent Program. For 12 weeks, teams of engineering students solve real hardware and tech challenges from Deep Tech startups, SMEs and corporates. Students earn credit points and a kickstart into their careers. Companies get working prototypes and fresh eyes on problems they have been stuck on.\nEurope will only build the technologies it needs if its engineers learn to build early. That is what this program is for.\nYou build and run this program hands-on, and you make it your own: you evolve it and turn its alumni into a talent pool that our startups and partners hire from.\nStart: 1 January 2027, full-time, on our campus in Berlin.\nYour role\nBuild and run the program: You own both batches per year end to end, from the call for applications and student selection to kickoff week and graduation. You design the curriculum, coordinate the students, the technical coaches and the companies that host the challenges.\nEvolve it: You build new formats, structures and quality improvements that raise the technical output of every batch.\nBuild the talent pool: You turn our graduates into an active alumni network and match them with the hiring needs of our startups and partners.\nMake our challenge hosts successful: You manage the relationships with the companies behind the challenges, from young Deep Tech startups to 100-year-old German SMEs and corporates, so that they come back for the next batch. You help our Sales team scope challenges realistically and pass on warm leads. You carry no sales quota.\nWin the universities: You are our face at technical faculties like TU Berlin, HTW and CODE, agree formal integrations such as ECTS credits, and build the relationships with professors and entrepreneurship centers that bring hundreds of strong applicants per batch.\nYour Profile\n2+ years of hands-on experience building and running programs, communities, university relations or talent acquisition. You do not just write the strategy, you run the daily operations.\nYou move easily between engineering students, technical coaches, Deep Tech founders and SME or corporate executives.\nYou understand that community and education programs have to pay off for the business, and you win returning customers through quality.\nYou do not need to be an engineer, but you understand hardware and software workflows well enough to judge whether a challenge is feasible.\nYou set the strategy for the talent pool in the morning and organise lab access or settle a team dispute in the afternoon. Both are the job.\nFluent German and English. German is essential for our work with university faculties and traditional SMEs.\nNice to have: a network in Berlin-Brandenburg's technical universities or Deep Tech scene, and experience with B2B relationships or corporate innovation partnerships.\nYour benefits\nReal ownership: There is no finished playbook. You write it, with short decision paths and direct work with our leadership team.\nFull access to our labs and machines, also for your own private projects.\nPersonal coaching and a budget for your further training.\nFlexible hybrid work: usually 2 to 3 days per week on campus, sometimes fully remote, depending on the program phase.\nA campus full of teams building sensors, drones, robotics and climate tech, and soon ringberlin, set to become Europe’s largest Hardware Hub\nAn honest, learning-oriented culture: We celebrate wins, discuss failures openly and treat feedback as a tool.\nAbout us\nMotionLab.Berlin is Germany's premier Innovation Hub & Makerspace, an ecosystem for Hardtech, art, creativity, and entrepreneurship. We are an operating and founding partner of Germany's official Deep Tech Hub, with campuses in Alt-Treptow and Marzahn. Soon we are launching Europe’s largest Hardware Hub at ringberlin.\nYour contact for this role is our co-founder, Fridtjof Gustavs.\nApply now and tell us why you are the right candidate!\nMore about our Tech Talent Program you will lead: https://motionlab.berlin/programs/tech-talent-program/","description_format":"text","description_chars":4388,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"German","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["3D Printers & Additive Manufacturing","Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T09:01:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.832,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":61589,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/motionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/motionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T16:30:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25177,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1884392},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1884392"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmotionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmotionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmotionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/motionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmotionlab-ml-gmbh-program-manager-connecting-engineering-students-industry-mfd"}]}