Culture and Community Manager

<h3>About the Role</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're a small, ambitious deeptech startup in Berlin working at the intersection of AI, robotics, and materials science — building technology with the potential to reshape the energy sector and beyond. Our team brings together engineers, scientists, and operators who move fast and care deeply about what they're building.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a <strong>Culture and Community Manager</strong> to lead the intentional creation and upkeep of our internal culture. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role for someone who thrives on genuine human connection, operates well without a detailed playbook, and finds meaning in making a hardworking team feel seen, supported, and energized. You'll work closely with founders and across the full team to build rituals, surface sentiment early, coordinate recruiting outreach, and own the people-facing problems that don't have a clear owner yet.</p><h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and run weekly rituals, team socials, monthly activities, celebrations, and quarterly offsites.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Create authentic traditions and shared experiences that feel distinctly ours — not generic or performative.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Make all-hands and collective meetings more energetic, interactive, and participatory.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build trusted relationships across the company and maintain a continuous pulse on team sentiment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Notice disengagement or frustration early and proactively offer support or escalate when needed.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review monthly team updates to spot recurring themes, tone changes, or unmet asks — and follow through.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Source and reach out to candidates via LinkedIn, communities, referrals, and creative channels.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Screen candidates for motivation, values, judgment, and cultural contribution; support interview coordination.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own practical, people-facing problems that lack a clear owner and create workable solutions independently.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Maintain lightweight people-ops: onboarding experiences, trackers, follow-ups, and internal documentation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Coordinate reliably across founders, employees, vendors, and external partners.</p></li></ul><h3>What We're Looking For</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Required:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Minimum 2 years of experience in community management, people operations, or a closely related field.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Demonstrated ability to own and solve people-facing operational problems without a predefined playbook.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience screening candidates for motivation, values, and cultural contribution as part of an interview process.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Cross-functional collaboration experience — comfortable working alongside founders, engineers, scientists, vendors, and external partners.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You'll stand out if you have:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Background in employee experience, recruiting, events, hospitality, startup ops, or university communities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong emotional judgment and the ability to handle sensitive conversations with care and discretion.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A startup mindset: high agency, low ego, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward speed and impact.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>AI-native curiosity:</strong> you build workflows, experiment with tools, write prompts, or create lightweight automations to work faster — no engineering background required.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The social energy to rally reluctant participants without ever making culture feel forced.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The candor to give founders honest, practical reads on team sentiment.</p></li></ul><h3>Location &amp; Work Arrangement</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is <strong>on-site in Berlin, Germany</strong>. We work together in person — it's core to how we build culture. <strong>Visa sponsorship is not available</strong>; candidates must have existing work authorization in Germany.</p><h3>About the Company</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're a well-funded seed-stage deeptech startup building an AI-driven platform to dramatically accelerate the discovery of advanced materials — particularly for the energy sector. Our platform combines physics-informed AI, autonomous lab robotics, and large-scale experimental data to compress decades of R&amp;D into years. We're a small team (under 65 people) with deep scientific and engineering talent, backed by established European and international investors.</p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>