Venture Development Manager (m/f/d)

Smalt is hiring a Venture Development Manager to scale our partnership model with Meister-led craft businesses, helping trades entrepreneurs grow revenue through a mix of commercial strategy, marketing experiments, and hands-on activation. You’ll work across operations, product, and growth to refine playbooks, automate workflows, and directly impact how Smalt enables thousands of new craft businesses across Europe.

What youll do

• Support partner craft businesses to grow their top line through commercial and operational interventions.
• Onboard and coach new Meister partners through their first months with Smalt.
• Operate and improve key business processes such as offers, invoicing, documentation, and workforce planning.
• Analyze partner performance and design interventions to improve conversion, efficiency, and growth.
• Build and automate scalable workflows using tools like Attio, Make, and Smalt’s AI stack.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations, and Growth to improve the partner experience.
• Translate field insights into product requirements and data models that inform Smalt’s AI.
• Act as a sparring partner to founders and help shape Smalt’s operating playbook.

What Smalt is looking for

• 3–5 years of experience in tech, operations, consulting, or VC, ideally with exposure to SaaS, field operations, or vertical software.
• Highly structured and analytical with strong systems thinking and documentation habits.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter mindset with ownership of partner outcomes.
• Fluent in German and English, able to communicate confidently with Meister and business owners.
• Comfortable with tools like Attio, Notion, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and automation platforms (Make, Zapier, n8n).
• Bonus: field experience or technical understanding of Elektro, PV, or SHK.
• Location: Berlin preferred (hybrid) with occasional field travel across Germany, and authorized to work in Germany.