OUR VISION

We connect the physical world with its digital twin so that companies can work more safely, efficiently and sustainably

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Mission

Businesses rely on billions of non-networked assets every day. Through IoT technology, we enable them to be connected to optimize workflows with real-time data.

SmartMakers was founded in 2016 and is now one of the leading providers of complete IoT solutions. Our technologies offer companies of all sizes an immediately measurable improvement in their business processes.

Our Connected Operations platform, thingsHub, integrates IoT endpoints, low-power wireless technology, and machine learning to make IoT deployment simple and value-added.

Several hundred companies from a wide range of industries rely on IoT from SmartMakers.

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Experience

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Management

Sebastian Stute Smartmakers CEO

Sebastian mare

CEO
Julia Bayer Smartmakers COO

Julia Bayer

COO

Become part of our team

We are shaping the future with the Internet of Things. Help us do it!

Are you interested in the latest technologies and are you looking for challenging tasks and the opportunity to realize your ideas in the field of innovations?

Then apply with us, we look forward to your support.

We can offer you these exciting tasks:

  • You will be the interface between customers and the product development team.
  • You will support the product development team in extending our IoT platform to integrate with customers' IT infrastructure.
  • You advise and support our customers during the installation of the platform on site, the integration into their infrastructure and the subsequent operation as well as the effective use.
  • You will support the product development team in improving the operability, scalability and stability of our platform, e.g. by observing functions like tracing, logging or monitoring.

 

With these skills you can convince us:

  • At least a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or an equivalent degree
  • Four years of work experience in a company or with the operation of cloud infrastructure
  • Strong programming experience
  • Great interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), Radio Communication
    technologies (e.g. LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, etc.)
  • Commitment to learning modern DevOps approaches e.g. Infrastructure as a Code, GitOps, etc.
  • Desirable: 2-3 years experience with Kubernetes in cloud and on-premises operation
  • Practical experience with:
    • Linux Administration and Tooling
    • Kubernetes Administration
    • PostgreSQL application and administration
    • Message brokering (especially MQtT)
    • Identity and access management

 

Your advantages:

  • Your working hours: Flexible | within core working hours/customer accessibility and your results are in the foreground.
  • Your workplace: Flexible | office or mobile working? Both possible, primarily on site in Karlsruhe
  • Your equipment: Modern | Everything you need to be successful
  • Your contract: Unlimited | We offer security
  • Your development: on-the-job training | varied and responsible tasks in a growing team with start-up charm
  • Your contribution: is in demand for innovative and future-oriented products and strategies for the sustainable digitalisation of companies.
  • Your environment: we have a great working atmosphere, cultivate a 'you' culture and live flat hierarchies

 

Are you in? Then apply now - we are looking forward to meeting you!

Apply now

We are shaping the future with the Internet of Things. Help us do it!

We are looking for creative "doers" with a special flair for marketing concepts in content and online marketing. You are looking for challenging tasks and love innovations?

Then apply with us, we are already looking forward to your support.

We can offer you these exciting tasks:

  • You create marketing concepts for our IoT solutions, follow them up independently and lead them successfully from the first idea to the final realization.
  • You will be a key part of the team in conceptualizing, planning and implementing campaigns in close collaboration with our sales team.
  • You continuously plan and control your activities in the CRM system.
  • You will be responsible for increasing our reach and related marketing activities.

 

You can convince us with these skills:

  • You have enthusiasm and passion for digitalization, innovative products and technologies.
  • You are creative, self-organized, excel at communication and teamwork skills, and tackle things independently.
  • You convince with your positive charisma and work in a structured, goal-oriented manner and possess a high degree of initiative.
  • You have a commercial education/studies with a focus on business administration or relevant professional experience and ideally already have some experience from B2B and online marketing.
  • Ideally, you already have first points of contact with the IoT solutions business.
  • You speak and write very good German and English.

 

Your advantages:

  • Your working hours: Flexible | within core working hours. Your results are in the foreground
  • Your workplace: Flexible | Office or mobile working? Both are possible. If possible on site in Karlsruhe
  • Your equipment: Modern | Everything you need to be successful
  • Your contract: Unlimited | We offer security
  • Your development: on-the-job training | varied and responsible tasks in a growing team with start-up charm
  • Your contribution: is required for innovative and future-oriented external communication in order to expand marketing.
  • Your environment: we have a great working atmosphere, cultivate a 'you' culture and live flat hierarchies

 

Are you in? Then apply now - we are looking forward to meeting you!

Apply now

We can offer you these exciting tasks:

  • Support in the creation of specific marketing concepts, e.g. reference customer concepts or communication concepts for new products
  • Planning and implementation of digital marketing projects, campaigns and services
  • Planning of national/international trade fairs and events
  • Close cooperation and coordination with the management to support the communication strategy
  • Creation of presentations and development of sales documents
  • Support for interdepartmental projects
  • Creation of texts, press releases, blogposts, etc. in the context of content marketing

 

You can convince us with these skills:

  • Degree in business administration, ideally with a focus on marketing or a degree in communication sciences
  • First relevant work experience
  • Ideally experience in project management as well as trade fair and event management
  • A feel for design, typography and texts
  • Absolute confidence in the use of the German language and orthography
  • Ability to work in a team, reliability and flexibility
  • Quick familiarization with new topics and their text-safe implementation
  • Creativity and ambition

 

Your advantages:

A versatile and responsible job in a successful, dynamic and young company. In addition to a variety of training opportunities, team events and leisure activities, you can expect friendly workplaces with modern equipment.

Look forward to exciting and challenging projects as well as flat hierarchies and open communication.

Apply now

We are shaping the future with the Internet of Things. Help us do it!

We are looking for a customer- and service-oriented sales talent with closing power, who is also happy to make initial contact with our prospects by phone and in social selling. Results-oriented support and the development of key customers are a matter of course for you. Are you looking for challenging tasks in solution sales in finding and developing target customers and industries? Can you imagine being actively involved in the management and expansion of a field sales team in the future?

Then apply with us!

Your mission
On the basis of partnership-based cooperation with potential and existing customers, you will use your closing power to ensure that our customer-specific solutions achieve even greater market penetration. You are our link between product owners and customers. As an accomplished and experienced "hunter", you always keep an eye on our growth and our future customers.

Your day at SmartMakers
As the main contact person, you take care of building and expanding close customer relationships. At regular meetings in Karlsruhe, you will actively work together with the team on our Sales & Marketing machine. In addition, your "North Star" is the deal closing and the further development of leads to enterprise customers. You actively contribute your B2B and industry experience to the sales and marketing process and support the design of the strategy. You report directly to the CSO.

Your tasks in detail

  • You coordinate the identification and acquisition of new customers as well as the support and further development of existing customers together with our Inside Sales.
  • You create proposals for our IoT solutions, follow up on them independently and successfully lead them to completion.
  • You are skilled at giving presentations and performing online customer demos.
  • You have negotiating skills in dealing with decision-makers and the ability to "close deals".
  • You will be part of the team in conceptualizing, planning and implementing campaigns in collaboration with the marketing team.
  • You develop campaign ideas (target group, offer) and the campaign logic (e.g. mailing, pre-qualification by telephone) in the team.
  • You continuously plan and manage your sales activities in the CRM system.

Your benefits at SmartMakers

  • Your working hours: Flexible | within core working hours/customer accessibility and your results are in the foreground.
  • Your workplace: Flexible | Office or mobile working? Both possible, primarily in the office in Karlsruhe
  • Your equipment: Modern | Everything you need to be successful
  • Your dress code: Situational | No suit and tie obligation
  • Your contract: Unlimited | We offer security
  • Your compensation: success and performance-oriented base salary and motivating commission model
  • Your development: on-the-job training | varied and responsible tasks in a growing team with start-up charm 
  • Your contribution: is in demand for innovative and future-oriented products and strategies for the sustainable digitalisation of companies.
  • Your environment: we have a great working atmosphere, cultivate a 'you' culture and live flat hierarchies

Your profile

  • It is in your DNA to inspire people and you seek direct customer contact.
  • You can convey your enthusiasm and passion for digitization, innovative products and technologies to customers.
  • You find it easy to create new ideas and you burn for creative solutions.
  • You have a strong will to succeed
  • You are reliable, self-motivated, a team player and get things done.
  • You convince with your positive charisma and work in a structured, goal-oriented manner and possess a high degree of initiative.
  • You have commercial training/studies with a focus on business administration or relevant professional experience and ideally already have management experience from B2B sales.
  • You speak and write very good German and English; other languages are not a must, but an advantage.
  • You bring willingness to travel with you.
  • You are confident in using office tools and already have experience with CRM systems.

Are you in? Then apply now - we are looking forward to meeting you!
We are looking forward to getting to know you by sending us your application (CV, motivation letter as well as starting date and salary expectations) as an online application or by e-mail to info@smartmakers.de.

Apply now

We are shaping the future with the Internet of Things. Help us do it!

We are looking for a customer- and service-oriented sales talent who seeks initial contact with our prospects, especially by phone and in social selling. Are you looking for challenging tasks in solution sales in finding target customers and industries?

Then apply with us!

Your mission
On the basis of partnership-based cooperation with potential and existing customers, you will ensure that our customer-specific solutions achieve even greater market penetration. As a "hunter", you always keep an eye on our growth and our future customers in new customer segments and industries.

Your day at SmartMakers
As the main contact person, you take care of building close customer relationships. You identify the right contacts in the company, understand their problems and show customer-specific solutions based on our technology. At regular meetings at the Karlsruhe location, you will actively work together as a team on our Sales & Marketing machine. In addition, your "North Star" is the deal closing and the further development of leads. You actively contribute to the sales and marketing process with your first B2B and industry experience. You report directly to the CSO.

Your tasks in detail

  • You coordinate the identification and acquisition of new customers as well as the support and further development of existing customers together with our Inside Sales.
  • You create proposals for our IoT solutions, follow up on them independently and successfully lead them to completion.
  • You're not afraid to give presentations and demonstrate online customer demos.
  • You possess negotiation skills and the ability to "deal close".
  • You will be part of the team in conceptualizing, planning and implementing campaigns in collaboration with the marketing team.
  • You develop campaign ideas (target group, offer) and the campaign logic (e.g. mailing, telephone pre-qualification) in the team.
  • You continuously plan and manage your sales activities in the CRM system.

 

Your benefits at SmartMakers

  • Your working hours: Flexible | within core working hours/customer accessibility and your results are in the foreground.
  • Your workplace: Flexible | office or mobile working? Both possible, primarily on site in Karlsruhe
  • Your equipment: Modern | Everything you need to be successful
  • Your dress code: Situational | No suit and tie obligation
  • Your contract: Unlimited | We offer security
  • Your remuneration: Success and performance-oriented basic salary and motivating commission model
  • Your development: on-the-job training | varied and responsible tasks in a growing team with start-up charm  
  • Your contribution: is in demand for innovative and future-oriented products and strategies for the sustainable digitalisation of companies.
  • Your environment: we have a great working atmosphere, cultivate a 'you' culture and live flat hierarchies

 

Your profile

  • It is in your DNA to inspire people and you seek direct customer contact.
  • You can convey your enthusiasm and passion for digitization, innovative products and technologies to customers.
  • You find it easy to create new ideas and you burn for creative solutions.
  • You have a strong will to succeed.
  • You are reliable, self-motivated, a team player and get things done.
  • You convince with your positive charisma and work in a structured, goal-oriented manner and possess a high degree of initiative.
  • You have commercial training/studies with a focus on business administration or relevant professional experience and ideally already have initial experience from B2B sales.
  • You speak and write very good German and English; other languages are not a must, but an advantage.
  • You bring willingness to travel with you.
  • You are confident in using office tools and already have experience with CRM systems.

 

Are you in? Then apply now - we are looking forward to meeting you!
We are looking forward to getting to know you by sending us your application (CV, motivation letter as well as starting date and salary expectations) as an online application or by e-mail to info@smartmakers.de.

Apply now

You have more Arduinos and Raspberry Pis in your closet than other people have socks?
You don't think LPWAN is the Russian exchange student and LoRa is not a new species of parrot? Then you've come to the right place!

Digitalization in companies is already becoming a reality with us today. LPWAN technology, especially the innovative LoRa transmission technology, and the latest cloud software form the basis for a customer-oriented overall solution. As with any new technology, however, there is still a lot to discover and try out. And for this we need your support.

With you...

  • Let's set up our LPWAN-LAB with our own IoT network
  • Let's test both industrial sensors and smart sensors based on Arduino and Rasperry Pi
  • Let's configure embedded gateways
  • Let's explore the limits of LPWAN performance

 

You bring...

  • Thirst for knowledge and the compulsion to explore all technical details
  • Experience with embedded systems and Linux
  • Programming knowledge in C, C++, Golang, Node.js

 

We offer...

  • Flexible time management
  • A cool team in a young company
  • Above average payment
  • option of permanent employment

 

Apply now

We are shaping the future with the Internet of Things. Help us do it!

We are looking for energetic support in our delivery team, which implements, consults and projects IoT solutions at the customer. If you are looking for an exciting, varied and innovative work environment, then apply with us! We are already looking forward to your support.

We are SmartMakers

Businesses rely on billions of non-networked assets every day. We enable them to be networked and controlled with real-time data.

SmartMakers was founded in 2016 and is now one of the leading providers of IoT solutions. Our technology offers companies of all sizes an immediately measurable improvement in their business operations through the use of IoT. Our Connected Operations platform, thingsHub, integrates IoT sensing, low-power wireless technology and machine learning to make deploying IoT simple and value-added. Over 250 companies from a wide range of industries already rely on IoT from SmartMakers.

Tasks

  • Planning and customer advice on IoT network and application solutions
  • Implementation of IoT use cases at customer sites
  • Interface between product development and sales
  • Contribution to innovative funding projects
  • Development of individual customer solutions 
  • Support and supervision of project rollouts
  • Development of radio network plans
  • Processing technical customer enquiries and support tickets

 

Qualification

  • Qualified university degree in electrical engineering / mechanical engineering or comparable training
  • More than 3 years of experience in industry, software or IT systems engineering
  • Experience working with APIs, Javascript (Node.js) and/or GoLang
  • Solid fundamentals in IT infrastructure, security and business systems
  • Enthusiasm for helping others network their things
  • Ability to work independently, in a customer-oriented and structured manner
  • Ability to work in a team as well as contact and communication skills
  • German and English fluent in spoken and written

 

Benefits

  • Your working hours: Flexible | within core working hours. Your results are in the foreground
  • Your workplace: Flexible | office or mobile working? Both possible, if possible on site in Karlsruhe
  • Your equipment: Modern | Everything you need to be successful
  • Your contract: Unlimited | We offer security
  • Your development: on-the-job training | varied and responsible tasks in a growing team with start-up charm 
  • Your contribution: is required for innovative and future-oriented external communication in order to expand marketing.
  • Your environment: we have a great working atmosphere, cultivate a 'you' culture and live flat hierarchies

 

Apply now