Chief of Staff (m/f/d)
Planet A
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.