Program Director (all genders) – mioty® LPWAN

Our international team at Fraunhofer IIS is shaping the future of IoT by developing cutting‑edge wireless data transmission technologies such as mioty®, a leading Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) standard. mioty® is deployed across smart metering, smart cities, industrial IoT, logistics and environmental.
As Managing Director for the mioty® program, you will be responsible for global strategic development, commercialization, and ecosystem expansion. You will lead all operational, business, partnership, and organizational activities to establish mioty® as leading LPWAN technology - driving adoption from pilot deployments to mass‑market rollouts across continents.

• Global Strategy & Growth: You shape and drive the global growth of mioty®, from strategic commercialization and scalable go-to-market approaches to building a thriving international ecosystem, while strengthening its worldwide positioning, brand, and value proposition across key verticals.
• Strategic Partnership Building: You establish, maintain and manage trusted relationships with industrial partners, public institutions, technology providers, and global enterprise stakeholders across the mioty® ecosystem. 
• Create Industry Impact: You promote mioty® in high‑level industry forums, policy and regulatory bodies, alliances, and standardization groups.
• Empowering Leadership: You guide the Fraunhofer IIS mioty® team across business development, marketing, and engineering.
• Financial Stewardship: You oversee financial stewardship, including budgeting, commercial operating models, and reporting.
• Governance and Innovation Management: You ensure sustainable governance, IP and licensing frameworks, long-term competitiveness, compliance, and innovation in close coordination with Fraunhofer IIS leadership.

• An exciting role: We offer a diverse and challenging field of work in an international environment, oriented toward state-of-the-art research and technology.
• Room for creativity: Projects with strong practical components motivate our employees to drive innovation.
• Our colleagues enjoy our positive work culture: We are open-minded, we help and trust each other.
• Top of the line infrastructure at your workplace: With our state-of-the-art technologies, we develop solutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
• We value personal contact: With our structured onboarding process, you will quickly become familiar with our institute and be able to extend your network successfully.
• We take your needs seriously: We support your work-life balance by offering flexible working hours and hybrid work.
• Your goals and interests are important to us: We offer ongoing professional and personal seminars, coaching, and language classes.
• We offer equal opportunities: Our female scientists, for example, benefit from the »Fraunhofer TALENTA« career program.
• Dedicated colleagues with broad professional expertise in a personal and collegial working atmosphere.
• We offer complementary parking spaces, charging stations for electric cars and covered bicycle parking, and showers at the institute.
• In-house health management including sports courses, running groups, and relaxation seminars. 

The position is initially limited to 2 years with the aim to extend it subsequently. The weekly working time is 39 hours. 

We value and promote the diversity of our employees' skills and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, sexual orientation and identity. Appointment, remuneration and social security benefits based on the public-sector collective wage agreement (TVöD).

With its focus on developing key technologies that are vital for the future and enabling the commercial utilization of this work by business and industry, Fraunhofer plays a central role in the innovation process. As a pioneer and catalyst for groundbreaking developments and scientific excellence, Fraunhofer helps shape society now and in the future.