Vice President (f/m/d) Siemens Energy Ventures - EU

Vice President (f/m/d) Siemens Energy Ventures - EU

A Snapshot of Your Day

General Partner of Siemens Energy Ventures, you will lead the next chapter of corporate venturing at Siemens Energy: turning external innovation into measurable business impact. This role is designed to support the execution of Siemens Energy’s strategy, improving its ability to identify, pilot, scale, and adopt breakthrough technologies that help energize the world. Reporting to the SVP of Company Development, you will lead the global Ventures team, build trusted relationships across the company and the startup ecosystem, and ensure Ventures deliver concrete, tangible impact for the business.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Set the strategic direction for Siemens Energy Ventures and aligning venturing priorities with Siemens Energy’s Elevate strategy and North Star
• Lead global Ventures across scouting, evaluation, piloting, scaling, investment interfaces, venture-client processes and business adoption
• Build strong senior-level sponsorship across Siemens Energy to ensure ventures are connected to real business priorities and translated into tangible commercial and operational outcomes
• Strengthen Siemens Energy’s external positioning in the startup, investor, corporate venturing and climate-tech ecosystem
• Continue building a high-performing, globally connected Ventures team with clear priorities, strong accountability as well as a culture of collaboration, learning and ownership
• Provide transparent portfolio governance, performance reporting, board-level updates and decision support to ensure focus, speed and impact
• Represent Siemens Energy Ventures as a credible thought leader internally and externally, advocating for startup collaboration as a strategic lever for innovation and growth

What You Bring

• Combination of strategic business leadership, corporate innovation expertise, ecosystem credibility and execution discipline needed to scale Siemens Energy Ventures from a strong platform into a business-impact engine
• Combine thought leadership and senior stakeholder influence with hands-on investment, startup-collaboration experience and strong commercial judgment
• 10+ years of relevant exposure to the energy industry, with deep expertise in at least one of the following fields: corporate innovation, venture capital, corporate development/strategy, M&A/Finance or growth equity
• Ability to design and operate startup collaboration models in large, complex corporate environments
• Deep knowledge of venture-client processes, including business need identification, startup selection, procurement enablement, pilot execution, product ownership, scaling decisions, and technology adoption
• Strong understanding of the energy landscape, industrial decarbonization, climate tech, Industry 4.0 and the role of external innovation in accelerating transformation
• Excellent strategic judgment, commercial acumen and diligence capability across both qualitative and quantitative dimensions
• Experience working with senior executives, boards, investment partners, business units, customers, startups and external ecosystem partners
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to coach teams, build trust, raise standards and create clarity in ambiguous environments

About the Team

Siemens Energy Ventures plays a critical role in helping the company access external innovation faster, improve the robustness of Siemens Energy’s technological portfolio, and convert startup collaboration into concrete business value. As part of Company Development, the function is instrumental in taking the Group’s performance and ambition to the next level, by collaborating with Innovation, Strategy and the Business Areas. As leader of the function, you are expected to lead this highly ambitious, high-performing team and take it to the next level.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the 'compatibility of family and work', we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.