Team Assistant; Communications, Government Affairs & Marketing; f​/m​/d

About Focused Energy

Focused Energy is the leading laser-driven fusion company pursuing the most promising path to clean, limitless fusion power. With headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany and the San Francisco Bay Area, we have united top scientific and engineering minds to unlock fusion power at commercial scale. We are dedicated to driving the next phase of economic growth and scientific innovation through the widespread adoption of clean, abundant fusion energy.

As the Team Assistant (Communications, Government Affairs & Marketing), you will serve as the operational backbone of our global Communications, Government Affairs, Public Policy, and Marketing departments.

This pivotal role ensures the smooth coordination of internal processes, executive operations, international stakeholder interactions, and cross-functional collaboration across Europe, the United States, and other international markets. By expertly managing schedules, travel logistics, events, documentation, budgets, and workflows, you will create the necessary space for our leadership team to focus on strategic priorities — while guaranteeing flawless execution across all administrative and organizational activities.

In this position, you will play a critical enabling role across a spectrum of high-impact activities, including political engagement, investor relations, international conferences, executive communications, branding, media operations, and high-level stakeholder coordination. The role demands exceptional organizational skills, reliability, discretion, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced international setting involving governments, industry leaders, investors, research institutions, and global partners.

This is an empowered, active support role — you will be a trusted operational partner, ensuring one of the company’s most externally visible teams runs with utmost precision and professionalism.

• Provide proactive operational and administrative support to the Chief Communications & Government Affairs Officer and broader teams.

• Manage complex international calendars, coordinate meetings, and optimize executive schedules across multiple time zones.

• Facilitate internal workflows and support cross-functional collaboration between teams in Europe, the U.S., and global partner organizations.

• Act as a reliable communication hub between leadership, staff, external stakeholders, and service providers, ensuring seamless information flow.

• Proactively identify and resolve scheduling conflicts, preparation gaps, and follow-up requirements.

• Plan and manage all aspects of international travel, including flights, hotels, visas, transfers, itineraries, and conference logistics.

• Support executive participation in political meetings, ministerial visits, investor roadshows, trade fairs, summits, and high-level engagements.

• Prepare detailed travel briefings, background documents, and logistical plans to ensure executives are fully prepared.

• Organize visits from politicians, investors delegations, industrial partners, and media, managing logistics from invitation to follow-up.

• Organize political round tables, parliamentary visits, stakeholder workshops, diplomatic events, and strategic government engagements from an operational perspective.

• Maintain up-to-date stakeholder contact lists, manage briefing distribution, invitations, follow-ups, and documentation.

• Ensure all political and regulatory interactions are managed with the highest standards of confidentiality and professionalism.

• Coordinate operational aspects of communication campaigns, media activities, social media planning, branding materials, and marketing initiatives.

• Liaise with PR agencies, graphic designers, photographers, video teams, printers, and external communications vendors; manage timelines and deliverables.

• Support the preparation and formatting of presentations, policy papers, press materials, briefing documents, and speeches — ensuring high quality and brand consistency.

• Oversee content workflows,…