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.
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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.