Community Manager

The role

You will own the day-to-day relationship with the research community across social media, Discord, and the Valency Hub. You will manage social channels, build the community, host virtual and in-person events, and provide feedback to the team to shape product development.

What you will do

• Own Valency's channels on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube
• Turn papers, preprints, and discussions on Hub into posts and threads
• Join conversations scientists are having online
• Contribute to Discord by welcoming newcomers, answering questions, and moderating
• Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub
• Spotlight researchers through profiles, paper highlights, and stories
• Set and uphold community norms
• Plan and host virtual events like office hours, AMAs, and demos
• Organize in-person meetups in Berkeley and across Bay Area campuses
• Contribute to the newsletter, blog, and researcher-friendly explainers

Required qualifications

• 0 to 3 years of experience
• Write clearly and quickly
• Fluent in social media and platform cultures
• Genuinely curious about science
• Use AI tools in work or studies
• Organized enough to run an event end to end
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Nice to have

• A degree or research experience in any science
• An existing presence or following in a scientific community online
• Experience running a club, journal club, student organization, hackathon, or conference
• Familiarity with open science, preprint servers, and how peer review works
• Short-form video editing, or design skills with tools like Figma or Canva
• Experience moderating a Discord or similar online community

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Equity package
• 401(k) with matching
• A conference and learning budget

Before you apply

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States

About the company

Valency Systems is a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building the global hub for the agentic research era. They are based in Berkeley, California.