As Venture Development Manager (m/f/d), you'll own a book of partners — Meister-led Handwerk businesses in Elektro and SHK — as their trusted operator and coach. And, uniquely in the team, you'll act as an AI product manager and lead the repeatability of our work: auditing how we work, codifying best practices, driving adoption, and identifying what we should build in our platform next — filling the gaps where it can't yet, and turning what you learn into the next automation.
Your Impact
Own a book of Handwerk partners end-to-end — onboarding, operational delivery, activation, and growth.
Audit how the team delivers today, codify best practices into playbooks and SOPs, and drive their adoption through evidence and influence.
Act as a product manager for our delivery: spec the highest-leverage automations with our CTO and measure hours saved per partner.
Build the measurement foundation — manual touchpoints per partner, activation pace, process adoption — and report progress to the founders.
3–6 years of experience, trained at a top consulting firm (McKinsey, Bain, BCG or equivalent) or in PE portfolio operations / shared-services transformation.
An A+ track record: fast progression, top ratings, real transformations delivered.
You build processes people actually use and prove the adoption — and you're hands-on without ego: no task too small.
Analytically rigorous, with the financial fluency to coach an owner on cash-flow, pricing, and invoicing basics.
Native-level German (non-negotiable) and fluent English; quick with modern CRM/automation tooling (Attio, Notion, Make, n8n).
Bonus: Elektro, PV, or SHK exposure; startup/scale-up experience.
- ️ Why You'll Love Working With Us:
Opportunity to shape product and operations of an AI-native platform company
Real ownership and direct proximity to the founders — and to General Catalyst, noa, Owl Ventures & Heartfelt_
Competitive compensation, an attractive VSOP package, 30 vacation days, and Deutschlandticket or Urban Sports Club
Smalt is the AI-first backoffice and growth engine that empowers skilled tradespeople to become entrepreneurs.
We support craftsmen in starting and scaling their businesses by providing a digital backoffice – from setup, company registration & launch, to offer creation, invoicing, documentation, talent retention, and revenue growth tools.
Smalt is building the tech-first backbone to solve the labour productivity gap and create an abundance of craft entrepreneurs globally.
Since inception in 2023, we have raised €12M from leading venture capital firms including General Catalyst, Owl Ventures, noa, and others.
We’ve built strong revenue traction (€4–5M+) in our integrated service delivery business and are now rapidly expanding our partner network model.
