Working student - Process Automation and Operations (m/f/d)

Published September 1, 2026

The TUM Venture Labs are a non-profit initiative of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) – Europe's top-ranked technical university – and UnternehmerTUM, Europe's leading center for innovation and business creation. Together, we build Europe's leading hub for deep-tech and life-science entrepreneurship. In our domain-specific labs, we bring high-tech founding teams from first idea to investor readiness, with access to research facilities, industry partners, mentors, and tailor-made programs.

In this role, you join the nationwide German incubator for battery technology startups (BaStI), which supports founders along the entire value chain – from the early idea through prototyping and scaling to market entry – with access to infrastructure, experts, and capital. In this way, you actively help bring innovations in energy storage more quickly into industrial application.

Your Mission

AI Automation & process development (50%)

  • Build automations that improve startup onboarding, monitoring, and engagement.
  • Turn manual tasks into efficient workflows using AI tools, no-code platforms, and scripting.
  • Connect and improve workflows across tools such as Salesforce, Slack, Mailchimp, and calendars.
  • Keep automations organized, reliable, and easy to maintain.

Operations support (50%)

  • Assist in the planning and execution of startup events and community activities.
  • Support the team with day-to-day operations, including email management, internal communication, and team coordination.
  • Provide operational support for ad-hoc tasks and help keep the team running smoothly.

Your Profile

  • Builder mentality with a passion for translating processes into simple, scalable, low maintenance automation workflows.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s student in a relevant field such as Management & Technology, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, or a strong portfolio of AI and automation projects.
  • Interest in startups, innovation, deep tech, or the battery/energy ecosystem
  • Curious and systems thinker, eager to experiment with AI tools, no-code platforms, and scripting.
  • Ownership mindset with a bias toward execution, process simplification and optimization.
  • Experience or willingness to learn from Make, Notion, Google Suite, VS Code, App Scripts.
  • Good communication skills and confidence interacting with founders, scientists, and industry partners.
  • Strong written and spoken English.

What we offer

  • Opportunity to turn TUM's entrepreneurial ecosystem into Europe's leading deep-tech innovation hub.
  • A highly dynamic and well-connected work environment with inspiring talents, entrepreneurs, leaders, and experts in Munich's start-up ecosystem.
  • Hybrid work based in Garching near Munich

As an equal-opportunity employer, we explicitly encourage applications from women and from all individuals who can bring additional diversity to our team. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference when equally qualified.

Please send your application including your CV, and a cover letter stating your earliest possible start date.

The application process is conducted by TUM Venture Labs; in this regard, we are the data controller as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The employment relationship is established within the framework of employment at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). However, the activity is performed for TUM Venture Labs. For further information regarding the processing of your personal data, please refer to our privacy policy (especially Section 41). 

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