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Karsten Wiebe Scholten

Langenfeld

Summary

Dynamic community leader with a proven track record at Character AI, driving engagement and support as the platform scaled to a $1B+ valuation. Expert in community building and project management, leveraging multilingual skills to enhance user experience and foster partnerships.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Community Lead & CM Germany

Character AI
12.2022 - Current

As the first member of the Community Team at Character.AI, I played a pivotal role in scaling community operations, content, and support as the platform grew from 0 to a $1B+ valuation. I Facilitated community engagement through social media, collaborated closely with separate moderation, product, and engineering teams.

Social media presence and support were pivotal, with significant out-of-hours availability.

Community localization efforts in Germany expanded my work in the Community Team, with regular events for the community, driving significant engagement and insights.

Community Manager

Fundamental Research Labs (Formerly Altera Al)
08.2024 - 05.2025

I led the community team with a co-lead, providing large-scale support to users of their Agentic AI platform. A large focus on Discord, with close communication with and gathering of sentiment for the product team. Community events drove engagement, and my multilingual background proved helpful during waves of foreign users.

Education

High School Diploma -

Landrat-Lucas Gymnasium
Leverkusen-Opladen
06-2024

Skills

  • Community building
  • Partnership development
  • Project management
  • Dutch Native, German bilingual, English fluent
  • Japanese proficiency Certificate JLPT N3

Certification

Japanese Language Proficiency N3

Languages

Dutch
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Advanced (C1)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Japanese
Intermediate (B1)

Interests

I call myself a chronically optimistic futurist AGI, Transhumanism, VR etc

Regular gamer Overwatch 2, Geometry Dash and Dark Souls

Timeline

Community Manager

Fundamental Research Labs (Formerly Altera Al)
08.2024 - 05.2025

Community Lead & CM Germany

Character AI
12.2022 - Current

High School Diploma -

Landrat-Lucas Gymnasium
Karsten Wiebe Scholten