Your mission As Operations Associate, your mission is to support our Operations Team, especially but not only in HR and Marketing. This is not an administrative position but a position with real ownership from day one in a fast-paced and high-growth environment. You ensure that our recruiting runs smoothly, our knowledge base scales with increasing team size, we increase our top funnel with high quality marketing content (social media and gated content) and our business processes scale. By bringing structure, reliability, and a proactive mindset to day-to-day operations, you enable our team to focus on the next steps to grow our company.

Your Tasks And Responsibilities Marketing:

• Content creation for social media to enhance employer branding
• Administrative and project management support for conferences, workshops and other events
• Implementing marketing intelligence database of competitors, prospects and partners
• Maintaining and expanding always up to date internal knowledge base
• Supporting content creation like one pagers and brochures together with technical team
• Increasing online company visibility through SEO and SEA

Human Resources:

• Organize monthly onsite and hybrid team events
• Support preparation and execution of summer offsite for whole company
• Support operational excellence by optimizing MS Sharepoint, Confluence and MS Teams setup
• Preparation and participation in recruiting fairs in Brunswick and other German cities

Your profile These qualifications are a must:

• Adaptability: You'll need to be flexible and able to adapt to evolving priorities, business strategies, and company goals.
• Confidentiality: You'll have access to sensitive information, so maintaining a high level of discretion and confidentiality is crucial.
• Team Player: Collaboration is a cornerstone of our company culture. You'll interact with various teams within the organization, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Your German and English level should be C1, spoken and written.

These qualifications are a bonus:

• Tech-Savviness: A strong understanding of software and the space industry can be an advantage, as it will help you better comprehend the business and provide more effective support.
• Previous Start-up/Work Experience: You have worked in a similar position before or in a high-paced startup/venture capital/consulting business
• Website development: Either as a project manager you have already implemented/updated a company website or have developed it yourself
• Graphic design: If you have already designed brochures, one pagers and websites in Adobe or similar tools

Why us?

• With a lean hierarchy and small working groups, you define your own way of work including flexible work hours.
• Enable our company to develop and sell groundbreaking space sustainability solutions with a team of top-tier engineers and scientists.
• Great team spirit, with sponsored events like laser tag, dinners, basketball games and escape rooms.
• Free drinks and snacks anytime in the office and partially subsidized gym membership (Hansefit)

About Us OKAPI:Orbits is at the forefront of space sustainability, addressing some of the most pressing challenges of the space industry: the growing problem of crowded orbital regimes, and the need for more efficient satellite operations. We're providing end-to-end solutions that help various space industry players cover their Space Situation Awareness (SSA), and Space Traffic Management and Coordination (STM & STC) needs. We are committed to safeguarding space missions and access to space for all humanity. Join us on our mission.

Last but not least, we would like to share with you that research shows that women are less likely to apply for a position unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements.

Please know that if it’s your case — but you are passionate about space technology, building reliable software, and contributing to a more sustainable space environment — we strongly encourage you to apply.

OKAPI:Orbits already brings together a highly diverse team, and we actively continue to strengthen this diversity which allows us to achieve higher performance and drive innovation.