Venture Manager HealthTech (m/f/d) - Healthcare

Published November 14, 2026

The TUM Venture Labs are a joint initiative of UnternehmerTUM and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). At the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare, we support science- and clinic-based founding projects in Digital Health, MedTech, and BioTech – from the very first idea to investor readiness. We combine entrepreneurial excellence with medical research, clinical application, and a strong network of academia, clinics, industry, and investors.

For this role, we are looking for a Venture Manager HealthTech with a background in medicine, medical technology, or digital health – clinical practice is welcome. In this role, you support venture teams from Digital Health and MedTech, often with a direct clinical link. You also organize the interdisciplinary Digital Health master course with Stanford University, which is meant to have an impact at universities and university hospitals across Bavaria.

Your Mission

• Organizing the Digital Health master course (35%)

Overall organization of the course from planning through the semester to the public final event in July; recruiting and selecting students of medicine, computer science, and management; finding and coordinating suitable experts, lecturers, and mentors; selecting real clinical challenges together with clinicians at TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar and further partner hospitals; involving the clinical partners; follow-up of each cohort including evaluation and certificates

• Partner management: Stanford University, hospitals, and faculties (15%)

Developing the partnership with Stanford University, e.g., jointly designing the course, workshops, and mutual visits, including the exchange for the winning team; building cooperation with the university hospitals and faculties of the five other Bavarian universities to source clinical challenges and to anchor the course in their curricula as well; coordinating with faculties, deans’ offices, and chairs at TUM to anchor the course permanently in the curriculum

• Supporting venture teams (25%)

Independently supporting selected teams across several development phases, e.g., on clinical need, use case, validation, regulatory questions, piloting, and readiness to found; focus on Digital Health and MedTech teams, often with a direct clinical link; active sparring at eye level; guiding promising course teams into clinical pilots, research projects, or spin-offs

• Promoting Sciencepreneurship (15%)

Raising awareness among researchers and students for ventures from science and encouraging them to act, e.g., through info sessions at chairs and clinics, office hours, and formats for PhD students; working with TUM’s transfer and patent offices; identifying research results with founding potential and guiding them on the way to a spin-off

• Project monitoring and reporting (10%)

Responsibility for KPI tracking and reporting on the master course and the supported teams; helping to shape and continuously improve processes, formats, and support offerings

Your Profile

• Completed degree in medicine, medical technology, health informatics, or a comparable field; physicians and clinicians with experience in patient care are explicitly welcome; a doctorate is an advantage, but not a requirement

• Good understanding of clinical workflows and of what makes digital health solutions succeed in care; experience or a subject focus in Digital Health or MedTech

• Strong experience and interest in the startup and innovation environment; ideally, you know the founding journey firsthand or have supported founding teams

• Experience in project or program management, ideally in teaching, education, or innovation programs; a structured way of working, clear priorities, and reliability until results are delivered

• Enjoyment of working with students and teams; you coach with clarity, empathy, and respect

• Knowledge of the regulation of medical devices and digital health applications (e.g., MDR, DiGA) is an advantage

• Networking comes naturally to you: you enjoy connecting clinicians, researchers, students, and industry partners

• Very good German ( C1 at least ) and English, written and spoken, including in exchange with international partners such as Stanford

• You take initiative: you spot what is missing and turn new ideas into action on your own

What we offer

• A (most likely) permanent position at TUM Venture Lab Management gGmbH

• The opportunity to shape a Digital Health course together with Stanford University and to build a lasting program in Bavaria’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem

• A dynamic, well-connected work environment with inspiring talents, founders, clinicians, and experts in Munich’s startup ecosystem

• Plenty of room to shape things and entrepreneurial freedom in building new formats

• Flexible working hours and home-office options

• A flexible mobility budget via the Moovster app

• A budget for your personal and professional development

• The option of a company-supported Wellpass membership and a JobRad

Interested? Please apply through the application form on our website. For questions, Dr. Nicolai Heinzelmann, Director TUM Venture Lab Healthcare, is happy to help: nicolai.heinzelmann@tum-venture-labs.de – we look forward to hearing from you.