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.<h2>Tasks</h2>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 &amp; Fund-Level Support:<ul><li>Work closely with the Partners on strategy, investment thesis development, and fund-level initiatives</li><li>Serve as a trusted sparring partner on high-priority tasks and special projects</li></ul>LP &amp; Investor Relations:<ul><li>Help maintain and strengthen relationships with LPs and network members, ensuring high-quality communication</li><li>Support the Partners on investor updates, reporting, and fundraising processes and help prepare meetings as well as on-site DD’s</li></ul>Operations &amp; Organizational Efficiency:<ul><li>Drive operational excellence by identifying and implementing improvements across internal processes and fund infrastructure</li><li>Ensure smooth cross-functional communication and alignment across the team</li><li>Drive high-leverage projects across operations, portfolio, and ecosystem initiatives</li><li>Prepare and debrief key meetings: research, materials, and follow-through on action items</li><li>Own the planning and execution of key LP events, portfolio days, strategy off-sites, ecosystem gatherings, and new thematic initiatives</li></ul>External Visibility:<ul><li>Help shape and amplify the fund’s brand and external narrative across events and strategic positioning</li><li>Co-develop and execute flagship initiatives such as the Planet A Summit, Founders Retreat, and other ecosystem events at major industry conferences</li></ul>Network Building &amp; Ecosystem Engagement:<ul><li>Strengthen and expand our network within the VC and startup community, fostering partnerships with other funds, operators, and ecosystem leaders</li></ul><h2>Requirements</h2>You will thrive in this role, if you: <ul><li>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.</li><li>Have hands-on experience building and scaling teams or companies, and understand what makes operations run smoothly behind the scenes.</li><li>Know how to bring people together across functions, personalities, and priorities. You can translate big-picture fund goals into clear actions for different teams.</li><li>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.</li><li>Have strong emotional intelligence and can read a room, navigate different personalities, and adapt your style depending on who you’re working with.</li><li>Care deeply about what you do, and want to help build something meaningful in venture, not just keep the wheels turning.</li></ul>This role is remote, with a preference for candidates based in Berlin.<h2>Benefits</h2>Why you should join Planet A: <ul><li>You can be an elementary part of a top tier venture capital firm - the first in Europe with a scientific approach to impact.</li><li>You can join a dynamic environment that is driven by impact and highly motivated to make a change for the better.</li><li>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.</li><li>You have access to an annual personal development as well as travel and conference budget.</li><li>You can enjoy benefits like Urban Sports club membership or the Deutschlandticket.</li><li>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.</li><li>You have the opportunity to participate in bi-annual offsite gatherings with the core Planet A team.</li></ul>Planet A is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and encourages people of all ethnic &amp; racial origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions &amp; ideologies, socio-economic statuses, educational backgrounds, ages, and individuals of all abilities to apply.

Founded in 2020, Planet A is an impact investment fund targeting for-profit start-ups that have a measurable positive impact on our planet while building scalable businesses. Planet A partners with European early-stage companies having the potential to scale globally. The start-ups have to contribute to significant positive change in at least one of four key areas: climate mitigation, waste reduction, resource savings, and/or biodiversity protection. For its portfolio companies, Planet A offers support with:<ol><li>impact measurement: scientific impact assessment, forecasting, and visualization,</li><li>the Planet A Network: a diverse network of experienced German and European entrepreneurs,</li><li>long-term funding: early-stage investments with interest in follow-on rounds.</li></ol>Planet A’s vision is to make impact investment the new normal.

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