Springer Nature  

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood, and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. 

At Springer Nature AI Labs (SNAIL for short), we’re building innovative data and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and scientific progress for the research community. We build these solutions in close collaboration with partners in product, technology and more. 

Office and Community Manager | SN AI Lab in Groningen 

We know that happy engineers build great products. As the SNAIL Groningen Office and Community Manager, you’ll help our team of engineers be at their best and help maintain the fantastic culture that makes SNAIL great. You keep the cabinets stocked and the vibes vibing. From safety and security, to welcoming new joiners; from administration to organising fun SNAIL events, you bring care, consideration and connectedness to our SNAIL environment. You are the point person for external and internal parties the SNAILs depend upon. Your areas of responsibility include (but are not limited to: 

• Trusted point of contact for internal SN teams such as Global General Affairs, Human Resources and Finance. And trusted point of contact for the external parties SNAIL depends upon (e.g. landlord, cleaning company).  

• Arrange for the care and feeding of SNAILs, such as our weekly Tuesday office lunches and keeping the office stocked effectively/reducing waste. 

• Organize social events including Holiday party and SNAIL traditions, such as SNAIL Day In and SNAILCON 

• “SNAIL is thinking of you” gifts and mementos: Greeting cards for new joiners, birthdays, work anniversary presents 

• Coordinate workflow of new hires, onboarding new people to set up accounts, first day in office, management of office tags. 

• Light administrative duties (e.g. expense submissions, invoice tracking) 

• Office safety lead, including yearly BHV course and maintenance of the first aid kit. 

What we are offering: 

• A chance to work closely with super smart and fun engineers (really!) 

• A flexible work environment designed to bring out the best in our people  

• The chance to work for a company with an incredible purpose and international reach – all while staying within Groningen 

What we are expecting from you: 

• Experience with office management or other related work experience 

• Experience with engineers / a tech environment is preferred 

• Flexibility, a collaborative spirit, a problem solver and people person by nature 

• Dependable, organised and detail oriented 

• Gaps in resumes can be fine! We focus on potential, team and culture fit more than checking job requirement boxes. 

• Must love dogs (...but cats are also fine).  

Practicalities: 

• We are a hybrid workplace (±2 days a week in office per week) 

• Our hiring process has ±3 steps 

• We offer a definite agreement to start 

• Full-time at Springer Nature is 36 hours. We are open to part-time schedules as well (minimum of 50%).  

• You’ll report to the Head of Engineering based in Groningen 

Come join SN AI Lab! 

SN AI Lab offers a fun, innovative, and dynamic entrepreneurial environment. We hire quirky talents who dare to take a stand and explore new directions! We empower our team to be self-leading, take initiative, and experiment.

....plus lots of cake, a PS5, fun team events, a stocked fridge, the typical pool table, and even a massage chair! (It seemed like a good idea at the time?)  

Most importantly, we offer an environment for you to continuously learn with a fun, brilliant, international & diverse team, as we build advanced solutions to help accelerate scientific discovery. 

If you think this sounds ‘gezellig’, we’d love to hear from you! 

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