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If you care about open science, advancing research at the speed of thought, and using AI to accelerate discovery, we'd love to talk.\nOur team is hybrid. We come together in person 3 days a week, with the option for 2 days of remote work.\nThe Role\nResearchers 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.\nValency 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.\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun our social presence\nOwn Valency's channels on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, writing for each platform's norms rather than cross-posting the same thing everywhere\n\nTurn papers, preprints, and discussions on Hub into posts and threads that researchers want to share: accurate, specific, and free of hype\n\nJoin the conversations scientists are already having online, especially around AI in research, open science, preprints, and peer review\n\nBuild and care for the community\nContribute to our Discord: welcome newcomers, answer questions, moderate fairly, and route bugs and feature requests to the right teammate\n\nRecruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub, and help new research groups get started\n\nSpotlight the people doing interesting work: researcher profiles, paper highlights, and \"how I use it\" stories\n\nHelp set and uphold community norms, including how AI-assisted work and AI reviewers are discussed respectfully and honestly\n\nBring people together\nPlan and host virtual events: office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions\n\nOrganize in-person meetups in Berkeley and across Bay Area campuses, and help represent Valency at scientific conferences and hackathons\n\nClose the loop\nContribute to our newsletter, blog, and researcher-friendly explainers of Hub and MCP Bond\n\nShare a short weekly read-out with the team: what researchers are saying, asking, and struggling with\n\nTrack what is working (growth, engagement, and which posts and events drive sign-ups) and use it to decide what to do next\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn your first 6 to 12 months, you will help Valency begin tracking and materially grow:\nActive researchers in our Discord and on Valency Hub, week over week\n\nResearchers publishing and discussing papers on Hub, across a growing range of fields\n\nA consistent posting rhythm on each channel that researchers engage with and share\n\nA regular cadence of virtual events, plus at least one in-person gathering each quarter\n\nA small group of researcher champions who post about Valency on their own\n\nClear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage, so we know what is working\n\nWho You Are\nYou have 0 to 3 years of experience. Recent graduates are very welcome.\n\nYou write clearly and quickly. You can turn a paper abstract into a post a postdoc would actually share.\n\nYou are fluent in social media and know that Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Discord each have their own culture.\n\nYou are genuinely curious about science and can follow a technical conversation without needing every term explained.\n\nYou already use AI tools in your work or studies, and you are honest about where they fall short.\n\nYou are organized enough to run an event end to end, and warm enough that people want to come back.\n\nYou see the gap and close it without waiting to be asked.\n\nBonus points\nA degree or research experience in any science: you have read papers, worked in a lab, or presented a poster\n\nAn existing presence or following in a scientific community online\n\nExperience running a club, journal club, student organization, hackathon, or conference\n\nFamiliarity with open science, preprint servers (arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv), and how peer review works\n\nShort-form video editing, or design skills with tools like Figma or Canva\n\nExperience moderating a Discord or similar online community\n\nWhy Join Us\nYou will be the first voice many researchers hear from Valency, and you will shape how a new kind of research platform shows up in the world\n\nYou will work directly with founders, engineers, and scientists, and with researchers from universities and national labs\n\nA conference and learning budget, and a team that publishes and shares openly by default\n\nA small, high-trust team where your decisions have outsized impact\n\nCompensation, Benefits & Equity\nWe offer a competitive salary, benefits, and equity package, including a 401(k) with matching.\nWork Authorization\nCandidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5734,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Vector Search & RAG","AI for Science"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T01:39:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/valency-community-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/valency-community-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T19:53:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7213,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":454378},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=454378"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvalency-community-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvalency-community-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvalency-community-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/valency-community-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvalency-community-manager"}]}