IT Lead

München, Bayern, 81249 Unbefristet Vollzeit Your way into the future

As our IT Lead you will lead and further develop our local IT organization while acting as the primary interface to Rocket Lab, our US-based parent company. This role is for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-moving manufacturing environment who can set strategic directions, coach a growing team, and roll up their sleeves when it counts. What awaits you at Mynaric

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of junior and mid-level IT professionals,acting as a coach and role model who gives clear direction and fosters a culture of ownership
• Take overall responsibility for IT operations and strategy across ourtwoMunich manufacturing sites, ensuring business continuity, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Own and continuously improve our ERP landscape, with a strong focus on SAP S/4HANA and its integration into business-critical processes.
• Drive the alignment and integration between ERP, MES, and shopfloor systems to ensure efficient and reliable manufacturing operations.
• Serve as the primary IT liaison to our California-based parent company, Rocket Lab, with close collaboration across time zones
• Lead infrastructure, cybersecurity, digitalization, and manufacturing IT projects from concept through implementation.
• Manage IT budgets, vendors, and service providers with a strong focus on value creation, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Define and enforce security, risk, and compliance standards aligned with German regulations
• Act as an escalation point for major IT incidents and drive sustainable root-cause resolution
• Translate business and manufacturing requirements into a clear IT roadmap that supports growth, operational efficiency, and scalability.

• Several years of leadership experience managing and developing IT teams, with a proventrack recordof building strong, engaged, and high-performingIT professionals.
• Strongexpertisein ERP systems, ideally SAP S/4HANA, including governance, implementation, optimization, and business process integration.
• Good understanding of MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and the interaction between ERP, production, engineering, quality, and supply chain processes.
• In-depth knowledge of security practices, frameworks, and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, NIST 800-53)
• Solid background managing hybrid IT landscapes, with Microsoft/Azure-based environments preferred
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and execution-focused mindset with a proven hands-on approach, actively supporting the team while effectively prioritizing in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• High levelof personal integrity, resilience, ownership, and authentic leadership behavior

Have you always wanted to come to work in your favorite space outfit? Then you are exactly right with us! Forget bureaucracy and work together with inspiring colleagues from all over the world while you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity.

We offer flexible working hours as well as time off in lieu, diverse areas of responsibility, and an attractive compensation package as well as additional benefits such as: a mobility budget (public transport ticket, business bike, fuel voucher), non-cash benefits in the form of a shopping voucher, and company events.

Mynaric produces optical fiber for the skies and, as a pioneer in laser communications, enables extremely fast and secure wireless data transmission between satellites, drones and the ground. The products are used by well-known international technology companies to build global communication networks. The emerging Internet over the clouds will connect the previously disconnected 3 billion people, bring the Internet of Things to the remotest corners of the earth and make international communication more secure than ever.