A Look Into Superhuman’s New Hub in Berlin

Superhuman’s Berlin team has moved into a new hub at Das Center at Potsdamer Platz, occupying a space once home to an IMAX cinema. After sitting closed for more than five years, it is beginning a new chapter as a place for our team to work, build, collaborate, and bring Berlin’s tech community together. Since our new home comes with a bit of cinematic history, it feels fitting to tell the story of our Berlin hub in a few acts.

The prequel: How Berlin became home

When we opened our first Berlin hub in June 2022, the setup looked very different. We started in a coworking space with a small team to help establish our operations in Germany.

Since then, Berlin has become one of our largest engineering, product, and design (EPD) hubs, with teams here working on the apps and agents across the Superhuman suite—products that help individuals and teams communicate clearly, collaborate effectively, and do their best work.

Over four years, our Germany team has grown to more than 200 people, and we needed a space that could grow with it. That meant more room, of course. But it also meant thinking carefully about what people actually need from a hub: places to work quietly, rooms where teams can ideate together, spaces for learning and social connection, and enough flexibility to move between all of them during the day. The former cinema at Das Center gave us the opportunity to build exactly that.

Setting the scene: A cinema reimagined

One of the things that drew us to the space was the chance to give an existing venue a new life. From a sustainability perspective, reimagining a space that had already been part of Berlin for years felt more meaningful than starting from scratch somewhere else.

The former cinema spans three levels, with floor-to-ceiling windows and an unusual layout that looks very different from a conventional office floor. Rather than starting with a blank box, we could work with some of that character and turn it into a functional workspace.

A few details about the space:

• 240 workstations, plus additional spaces for individual work, collaboration, learning, and events.
• A nod to the building’s history. We kept the cinema as part of the space’s identity: IMAX is now the name of our all-hands and events area.
• Meeting rooms with a movie theme. The names draw on movies, cinema, and fictional worlds, with colleagues voting on the final list. You might find yourself working from Tatooine, Tardis, or Atlantis.
• Potsdamer Platz outside the door. Being part of Das Center gives the team—and colleagues visiting Berlin—easy access to the restaurants, amenities, and events around the campus. Potsdamer Platz is also directly connected to the airport, with the journey taking around 20 minutes.

The main attractions: A space designed around how we work

Building the hub from scratch gave our Workplace Experience team an opportunity to start with a simple question: What do people here actually need? They interviewed team members about how they work, where the previous space helped, and where it got in the way. At the same time, we wanted to preserve some of the traditions that have become part of life at our hubs. The result isn’t one type of office setup. It’s a collection of spaces designed for different moments in the workday.

Flexibility without making the hub an afterthought

Our work model gives people flexibility to balance on-site collaboration with remote focus. Team members choose an in-office commitment ranging from two to five days a week, with benefits that scale accordingly. In Berlin, that includes company-paid transit through the Deutschlandticket and parking, dedicated desks for people who come in three or more days a week, and a lifestyle and wellness reimbursement budget that can cover expenses such as childcare, cleaning, and meal preparation. The intention is to make the days they spend together work better. Read more about our global ways of working.

A room for the kind of work you’re doing

A team meeting and a standing whiteboard session need different setups. So does a workshop with a dozen people compared with a 30-minute individual Zoom call. Rather than designing every room around the same meeting format, we created a mix. There are traditional meeting rooms, smaller focus rooms, spaces for brainstorming and whiteboarding, and a larger Learning and Development area for workshops, team onsites, and group sessions. The goal is simple: when the work changes, you shouldn’t have to fight the room.

Lunch is part of the rhythm

Our main cafeteria has quickly become one of the hub's natural meeting points. There’s fresh lunch delivered every day, weekly breakfasts, regular social hours and celebrations, plus plenty of opportunities to stop for coffee, tea, or a snack between meetings. A shared lunch can be where someone catches up with a teammate they don’t work with every day, meets a colleague visiting from another Superhuman hub, continues a conversation from a meeting, or simply takes a proper break before getting back to work.

The Play room tradition continues

Music has long been part of Superhuman culture. Plenty of team members play instruments, and our annual talent show has given more than a few of them a reason to step into the spotlight. So we kept another hub tradition: a dedicated Play room where people can pick up an instrument and jam together.

Spaces for different needs

A workplace also has to work for people at different moments in their lives and days. Our Wellness room offers a quiet place to step away for a short break, with dimmed lighting and a massage chair. The Parents room is private and equipped for pumping, breastfeeding, and changing. They’re small parts of a much bigger hub, but they reflect the same principle behind the rest of the design: People don’t arrive at work with identical needs, so the space shouldn’t assume they do.

The sequel: Making room for what’s next

There’s one slightly unusual thing about writing an office-opening story: This one isn’t quite finished.

Our Berlin team is continuing to grow, and we chose to expand our footprint at Das Center before we had even fully moved to the campus. Our three-level space in the former cinema is already open, and construction has already started on an additional area that will connect directly to it. That will give teams more room as we grow—and more ways to adapt the space as the way we work continues to evolve.

A former cinema gave us a unique starting point. What matters now is what happens inside it: teams building together, colleagues connecting across Superhuman hubs, ideas moving faster in the room, and a space people choose to make part of their working week. And yes, there will be a sequel!