Commercial co-founder / Hardware and Electro-mechanical Manufacturing (Equity)

LoopforgeLab enables machine and hardware makers make better design decisions by better we mean shorter design iterations, more sustainable products with less cost to manfuacture and own.

We are building the Forge Engine is an agentic tool for manufacturing. Give it a BOM and a STEP file and it returns what the part costs to make and what the machine will cost to own over fifteen years, while there is still time to change the design. The lifecycle engine is built and runs on declared drivers. The agent already modifies geometry from natural-language instructions on our platform

Mechanical designers decide roughly 70–80% of a machine’s lifetime cost in the first weeks of a project, then find out what it actually costs months later, from purchasing. We built the Forge Engine to close that loop: BOM, CAD and purchasing data in, should-cost and cost-of-ownership out, while the design can still be changed.

The engine runs. We have pilot conversations with European packaging and handling OEMs, a VDMA membership, and a whitepaper our prospects actually read.

Company Description

LoopForgeLab is building a Product Intelligence Engine that integrates market, cost, and carbon data directly into engineering workflows. The platform enables teams to make informed product decisions early, reducing the risk of costly redesigns and delays.

By connecting real-time data with engineering processes, LoopForgeLab helps organizations optimize performance, sustainability, and profitability. The team focuses on empowering engineers and commercial leaders with actionable insights to stop the “Redesign Trap” before it starts. Joining LoopForgeLab means contributing to a data-driven solution at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and product development.

Role Description

The Commercial Co-Founder will lead the go-to-market strategy and drive revenue growth for LoopForgeLab’s Product Intelligence Engine. This full-time, on-site role in Berlin involves building and managing customer relationships, identifying new business opportunities, and developing partnerships with engineering-driven organizations. Day-to-day responsibilities include shaping positioning and value propositions, conducting market research, and designing commercial experiments to validate pricing and sales approaches. The role also includes creating and executing sales and marketing campaigns, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and representing LoopForgeLab at industry events and meetings. As a co-founder, the individual will help define the company’s commercial vision, contribute to fundraising efforts, and support the development of scalable processes and a high-performing team.

What you would own:

• The revenue line end to end. Pipeline, pilots, pricing, conversion to paid.
• Turning pilot evaluations into signed contracts that include field-data access. This is the hard part and the business depends on it.
• The pre-seed raise, run with founders. Angels, VCs, and the German and EU grant programmes (EXIST, ZIM, Eurostars).
• Deciding which segments we turn down and which segments we target.
• Financial Projection and budgeting

Who you probably are:

• Eight or more years selling into mechanical engineering, machine building, automation or industrial software, with deal cycles of several quarters.
• You can sit with a Konstruktionsleiter and an Einkaufsleiter and be credible to both. Either you have an engineering background or you earned the credibility the long way.
• A live network in DACH machinery or packaging. You can name people you would call next week.
• German and English at working level.
• Willing to be the only commercial person for the next year, including list building, CRM hygiene and trade fair floors.
• You live in Germany preferably Berlin
• Familiar with sustainability concepts and how do they be applied in the context of design and manufacturing

The stage, incorporating to a GmbH, raising pre-seed now. There is no salary until we close a round or a grant. Equity is meaningful and negotiable, with standard vesting and a cliff. Not for someone who holds shares and shows up occasionally.