Community Manager

About Valency

Valency Systems is a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building the global hub for the agentic research era.

We're based in Berkeley, California, and we're building something that matters. If you care about open science, advancing research at the speed of thought, and using AI to accelerate discovery, we'd love to talk.

Our team is hybrid. We come together in person 3 days a week, with the option for 2 days of remote work.

The Role

Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share, and people who clearly understand the science. That is the community we need to earn.

Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha: a neutral place to publish, fork, and discuss AI-assisted research, grounded in the real scientific record. MCP Bond connects the AI systems researchers already use to tens of millions of papers and preprints. The products are live. Now we need the person who brings scientists in, makes them feel at home, and gives them reasons to come back.

As our first Community Manager, you will own Valency's day-to-day relationship with the research community: across social media, Discord, the Hub itself, and in person. You will spot the interesting paper, the researcher worth spotlighting, and the question that keeps coming up, and turn each into a conversation. You will also be the team's ear, bringing back what researchers actually say so it shapes what we build.

This role is open to recent graduates. We care more about judgment, writing, and genuine passion for science than years of experience. There is no existing playbook here; you will help write it.

What You'll Do

Run our social presence

• Own Valency's channels on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, writing for each platform's norms rather than cross-posting the same thing everywhere

• Turn papers, preprints, and discussions on Hub into posts and threads that researchers want to share: accurate, specific, and free of hype

• Join the conversations scientists are already having online, especially around AI in research, open science, preprints, and peer review

Build and care for the community

• Contribute to our Discord: welcome newcomers, answer questions, moderate fairly, and route bugs and feature requests to the right teammate

• Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub, and help new research groups get started