Executive Business Partner

The role

You will support four co-founders by managing complex calendars, logistics, and planning. You will also build operating rhythms like leadership meetings and OKR processes to keep the company aligned.

What you will do

• Manage complex, rapidly evolving calendars across four founders
• Anticipate needs and prepare founders for meetings
• Handle confidential information and sensitive situations
• Own travel planning, itineraries, and expenses
• Provide limited personal support to founders as needed
• Build and run operating rhythms including leadership meetings and OKR processes
• Coordinate board meetings and support board materials preparation
• Draft agendas, capture key decisions, and track follow-ups
• Partner closely with co-founders on business needs
• Represent founders with external stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of experience in executive support, executive operations, or a similar role supporting senior executives at a fast-moving, high-growth company
• High agency
• Comfortable managing and diplomatically pushing back on strong personalities, competing priorities, and changing plans
• Able to coach executives on how to work effectively with an executive partner
• Equally strong at tactical support and higher-leverage work
• Excellent judgment about what to own directly, when to push, and when to bring something to a founder or the leadership team
• Strong writer and communicator
• Discretion and maturity when handling sensitive information

Nice to have

• experience with first-time founders or executives
• building operating rhythms from scratch

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Attractive equity package
• Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family
• 9 weeks paternity leave
• 12 weeks maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Monthly commuter stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks provided daily
• Your own personal Yoshi

Before you apply

• Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire
• Visa sponsorship is provided and assessed on a case-by-case basis

About the company

Cartesia aims to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. The founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab.