Chief of Staff (m/f/d)

Planet A Ventures; Remote; Vertraulich; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading tech venture capital firm in Berlin is seeking a Chief of Staff to drive strategic initiatives and enhance operational efficiency. In this role, you will work closely with the management team, supporting investment strategies and facilitating investor relations. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of experience in high-pressure environments, exceptional emotional intelligence, and an entrepreneurial spirit. The position offers remote work possibilities along with unique benefits that foster personal growth and team collaboration.

Leistungen

Annual personal development budget

Urban sports club membership

Monthly co-working days

Bi-annual offsite gatherings

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years experience in fast-paced environments like startups or VC.
• Hands-on experience building and scaling teams or companies.
• Ability to bring teams together and translate goals into actions.

Aufgaben

• Work closely with Partners on strategy and fund-level initiatives.
• Help maintain relationships with investors and network members.
• Drive operational improvements across internal processes.
• Shape the fund’s brand and narrative across events.

Kenntnisse

Execution-focused

Connecting people

Strong emotional intelligence

Jobbeschreibung

About Planet A:

Planet A is a leading early-stage tech VC backing European founders tackling the world’s greatest systemic challenges. We take a scientific approach to identify breakthrough solutions the world can’t afford to ignore across energy, resource mastery, neo-manufacturing, and critical infrastructure. Investments include INERATEC, Makersite, C1, HIVED, traceless materials and 44.01. As a small team with flat hierarchies, we live by our core values: excellency, transparency, trust, humbleness, conviction, and respect.

Tasks

The Role:

We are looking for a Chief of Staff to join our team and help steer Planet A through its next chapter. This role keeps our vision alive day to day, keeping us sharp internally and visible externally. It’s not a classic behind-the-scenes position. It’s for someone who wants to be in the room where the next generation of world-changing tech is taking shape and help form how we operate, communicate, and grow as a fund.

You will be working closely with our management team and will be the strategic right hand to our Partners, moving seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands‑on execution. One day you might be refining an investment thesis or preparing materials for LPs. The next, you could be discussing new partnerships, run a special ops project, or helping create an industry‑leading event.

If you are execution-focused, great at connecting people and you thrive in fast‑paced environments - this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic & Fund-Level Support:

• Work closely with the Partners on strategy, investment thesis development, and fund-level initiatives
• Serve as a trusted sparring partner on high-priority tasks and special projects

LP & Investor Relations:

• Help maintain and strengthen relationships with LPs and network members, ensuring high-quality communication
• Support the Partners on investor updates, reporting, and fundraising processes and help prepare meetings as well as on-site DD’s

Operations & Organizational Efficiency:

• Drive operational excellence by identifying and implementing improvements across internal processes and fund infrastructure
• Ensure smooth cross-functional communication and alignment across the team
• Drive high-leverage projects across operations, portfolio, and ecosystem initiatives
• Prepare and debrief key meetings: research, materials, and follow-through on action items
• Own the planning and execution of key LP events, portfolio days, strategy off-sites, ecosystem gatherings, and new thematic initiatives

External Visibility:

• Help shape and amplify the fund’s brand and external narrative across events and strategic positioning
• Co-develop and execute flagship initiatives such as the Planet A Summit, Founders Retreat, and other ecosystem events at major industry conferences

Network Building & Ecosystem Engagement:

• Strengthen and expand our network within the VC and startup community, fostering partnerships with other funds, operators, and ecosystem leaders

Requirements

You will thrive in this role, if you:

• Bring 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced, high-performance environment (e.g. startups, VC, policy, comms, events, strategy consulting, or similar), along with a deep understanding for innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Have hands‑on experience building and scaling teams or companies, and understand what makes operations run smoothly behind the scenes.
• Know how to bring people together across functions, personalities, and priorities. You can translate big-picture fund goals into clear actions for different teams.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit. You don’t wait for instructions, instead you spot opportunities, create structure where it’s missing, and know when to pull others in.
• Have strong emotional intelligence and can read a room, navigate different personalities, and adapt your style depending on who you’re working with.
• Care deeply about what you do, and want to help build something meaningful in venture, not just keep the wheels turning.

This role is remote, with a preference for candidates based in Berlin.

Benefits

Why you should join Planet A:

• You can be an elementary part of a top tier venture capital firm - the first in Europe with a scientific approach to impact.
• You can join a dynamic environment that is driven by impact and highly motivated to make a change for the better.
• While we’d love for you to be based in Berlin as we have our beautiful office in Berlin Mitte, remote work within Europe is absolutely possible.
• You have access to an annual personal development as well as travel and conference budget.
• You can enjoy benefits like Urban Sports club membership or the Deutschlandticket.
• You can take part in our monthly co-working days – collaborate side by side with the entire Planet A team and strengthen connections over team lunches, dinners, or fun team activities.
• You have the opportunity to participate in bi-annual offsite gatherings with the core Planet A team.

Planet A is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and encourages people of all ethnic & racial origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions & ideologies, socio-economic statuses, educational backgrounds, ages, and individuals of all abilities to apply.