Job Description

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Oxyle is an award-winning Swiss clean-tech startup, founded in 2020 to solve one of the most pressing environmental and public health challenges of our time. We are looking for an experienced leader/director with a long-standing background in industrial water treatment project engineering to guide our customer project engineering team.
Our mission is to restore and protect our bodies of water from PFAS, down to the last drop. PFAS, often referred to as Forever Chemicals, are a group of more than 10,000 persistent and toxic man-made substances polluting our water, soils, and food. Our breakthrough destruction technology permanently degrades challenging PFAS compounds from wastewater. No two wastewaters are alike, so our solutions aren't either. We design complete treatment systems by integrating our core technology with tailored approaches to ensure optimal performance.
Join a purpose-driven team tackling one of the world's most urgent environmental challenges. Shape how PFAS destruction technologies are deployed across industries -- and help protect our planet, one drop at a time.
The opportunity
The Deployment Team brings Oxyle's technology to life -- turning lab innovation into real-world impact. From understanding customer challenges to designing, piloting, and scaling treatment systems on-site, the team ensures every solution performs reliably in the field.
As Head of Customer Projects (water treatment), you will lead and grow the department responsible for all customer projects -- from first technical contact to pilot trials and full-scale installations. You will shape the overall deployment strategy, guide project delivery excellence, and ensure our solutions create measurable environmental and customer value. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will collaborate closely with Engineering, R&D and Commercial teams while building and guiding a talented deployments team that ensures every project delivers measurable impact.
Will you join us in protecting the future of our waters?
Your key repsonsibilites

• Lead Oxyle's Deployment team by building and mentoring high-performing engineers focused on safe, efficient, and successful customer installations.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of customer projects with your team- from first technical contact to design, lab & pilot testing, commissioning, and hand-over.
• Drive deployment strategy and design, processes, and best practices to ensure scalability, in-depth risk management and operational excellence.
• Serve as the key technical interface for customers, ensuring smooth collaboration, accurate planning, data-driven decision-making, and excellence in execution.
• Translate learnings from deployments into actionable suggestions for product design, engineering, and commercialization improvements.
• Manage resources, budgets, and timelines across multiple projects to ensure reliable execution and customer satisfaction.
• Foster close collaboration with cross-functional teams and align deployment activities with Oxyle's technology roadmap and business goals.

Requirements
What you need to bring to the role

• 10+ years of experience in implementing complex industrial water treatment (e.g., RO, NF, MBR, AOP, adsorption).
• Proven experience leading management, delivery and operations of complex customer projects.
• Strong understanding of process design, system sizing, and performance optimization.
• Solid grasp of cost, value, and risk drivers in project delivery and customer operations in industrial wastewater treatment.
• Deeply familiar with water treatment technologies and their operational challenges (e.g., AOPs, adsorption, filtration).
• Skilled at cross-functional collaboration with commercial, R&D, and engineering teams.
• Professional communicator able to connect technical and commercial perspectives with clarity.
• Excellent stakeholder management, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Have a Swiss working permit or be eligible to work in Switzerland.
• Fluency in French and/or German language preferred

Your mindset

• Purpose-driven: You care deeply about sustainability and making measurable environmental impact.
• Hands-on leader: You guide your team with clarity and are not afraid to be close to the action.
• Operationally sharp: You plan carefully and execute with precision and stay calm under pressure.
• Collaborative: You build trust and alignment across diverse technical and non-technical teams.
• Adaptive: You embrace change and thrive in the fast pace of a growing startup.
• Customer-first: You approach every project with a commitment to quality, service, and long-term success.

Benefits
What we offer

• 25 days paid holidays and Winter Recharger.
• Generous retirement plan.
• Public transport subsidies.
• Flexible and trust-based working hours with the option of working from home when needed.
• Team events and team-building activities throughout the year.
• Entrepreneurial company with a non-hierarchical mindset.
• A passionate and international team where you can move the needle to create a sustainable impact.
• An open and welcoming culture where diverse perspectives are valued, and your individuality and input are always taken into account.
• Modern, well-equipped office spaces and laboratory infrastructure designed to support both collaboration and focus.
• Opportunity to help you develop valuable soft skills.
• Participation in Oxyle's Employee Stock Option Plan

Skills Required