EBAS is partnering with a fast-growing, Series B, AI-enabled hiring platform backed by Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2 and a few others like the founders of Youtube.The team is based in San Francisco with an in-person culture, and the CEO is looking for a high-trust Executive Assistant to bring structure, speed, and leverage to an increasingly demanding calendar and stakeholder environment.
Why You Will Be Excited About This Role
- Directly increase CEO leverage by removing low-ROI tasks and protecting their time.
- Serve as a critical filter and prioritization layer across high-velocity internal and external stakeholders.
- Operate with meaningful ownership and autonomy, expected to solve problems without repeated check-ins.
Why You Will Like Working Here
- A CEO who values directness, honesty, warmth, and high-velocity execution
- Strong ownership culture: you are trusted to run with problems end-to-end
- Opportunity to grow into broader leadership scope over time as the executive support function expands
What You Will Be Working On
- CEO calendar management: prioritization, scheduling strategy, and protecting focus time
- Inbox and communications triage: ensuring the right items surface at the right time
- Meeting preparation and follow-through: tracking actions and ensuring execution happens within expected timelines
- Stakeholder management: coordinating with executives and teams, and appropriately pushing back when requests are not priority
- Travel planning and day-to-day logistics to keep CEO operating at high speed
- Building lightweight operating rhythms and SOPs to prevent recurring requests from reaching the CEO (templates, routing, workflows)
What Type of Person Will Be Successful
- 3+ years of experience supporting a senior executive, ideally in VC, high-growth startups (Series B to D), or similarly high-slope environments
- Proven ability to triage, prioritize, and push back with good judgment and professionalism
- Proactive and high-agency: you spot problems early and solve them without being asked
- Strong written communication and comfort operating primarily in Slack and Google Workspace
- Tech-fluent and curious about new tools (familiarity with ChatGPT is a plus)
- Warm, humble, and direct, with a “not 9-to-5” mentality when the business needs support
- Can work in San Francisco Bay Area and thrive in an in-person, high-collaboration office
