Job Description
A Business Analyst focusing on Market and Strategy at HyperHeat, responsible for analyzing markets, customer needs, and technical-economic data to develop business cases, support sales and partnerships, and help shape the company's go-to-market strategy in the industrial high-temperature heating sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive market and customer analysis to identify patterns and insights
- Prepare decision-ready analyses and materials for discussions with founders and customers
- Own market and application deep dives for target segments and refine customer personas
- Build customer-specific business cases and develop sales and investor materials
- Act as a first point of contact for inbound and outbound customer conversations
- Collaborate on market prioritization, pricing, and go-to-market strategies with founders
- Drive cross-functional projects such as application selection, partnership screening, and market entry hypotheses
- Anticipate customer questions and objections, providing data-backed responses
- Translate complex technical and economic topics into clear insights for decision-making
Requirements
- Proven experience building robust business cases, financial models, or techno-economic analyses that stand up to scrutiny beyond the spreadsheet.
- Strong analytical foundation and the ability to translate complex technical and economic topics into clear, decision-ready insights.
- Proven comfort operating in ambiguity, structuring open questions independently, and moving topics forward without waiting for detailed instructions.
- High level of ownership and reliability, with a track record of taking responsibility for outcomes rather than tasks.
- Clear, concise communication skills, both written and verbal, in English and German, tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience analyzing existing customer conversations, pilots, and proposals to extract patterns and insights.
- Ability to independently prepare decision-ready analyses and materials for founder and customer discussions.
- Ability to analyze market and customer data, shape customer personas, and act as a first point of contact for inbound and outbound customer conversations.
- Experience building customer-specific business cases that stand up in front of industrial decision makers.
- Experience creating sales and investor materials that clearly communicate economic and strategic value.
- Ability to build a deep understanding of technology, target industries, and priority applications within one month.
- Fluency in Techno Economic Analysis (TEA) model and underlying assumptions within one month.
- Ownership of market and application deep dives for selected target segments within three months.
- Ability to define and refine customer personas, including buyers, technical stakeholders, and internal champions within three months.
- Ability to build robust, customer-specific business cases and sales/investor materials within three months.
- Ability to become a trusted sparring partner to the founders on market prioritization, pricing logic, and go-to-market strategy within six months.
- Capability to independently drive cross-functional projects such as application selection, partnership screening, or market entry hypotheses within six months.
- Experience supporting sales, partnerships, or fundraising processes (preferred but not mandatory).
- Background in consulting, venture, energy, industrial tech, or deep-tech startups (preferred but not mandatory).
- Prior exposure to heavy industry, energy markets, or industrial economics (preferred but not mandatory).
- Comfort building high-quality slides and narratives for senior audiences (preferred but not mandatory).
- Legal right to work in the EU; visa sponsorships or relocation support are not offered.
Benefits & Perks
30 days of annual leave
Annual Christmas dinner hosted by the founders
Laptop and accessories provided based on preferences
Regular team activities
Access to a sports benefit
Flexible working hours and hybrid work options
Ability to work remotely up to two days per week
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