Executive Assistant

The role

You will support two founding executives by managing their calendars, inboxes, and travel. You will also handle personal and life administration to save them time.

What you will do

• Run two calendars as one system
• Own the inbox front line
• Plan travel end to end
• Take care of personal and life admin
• Prepare every important meeting
• Make recurring admin disappear

Required qualifications

• 4+ years supporting senior executives, ideally more than one at a time
• Sharp judgment about what's urgent, what can wait and what never needs to reach the exec
• Clear, polished written English
• You spot the next problem before anyone asks and fix it
• Experience handling personal admin alongside the professional side, with the discretion that comes with it
• Organised and dependable without needing a rigid structure
• At home in Google Workspace and quick to pick up new software tools

Nice to have

• German fluency
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
• Familiarity with Swiss administrative procedures (permits, insurance, tax paperwork, relocations)
• Experience with task tools like Todoist, Notion or Linear

Benefits

• competitive salary
• generous equity stake
• wide range of benefits
• career progression opportunities

About the company

Cradle offers a software platform for AI-guided discovery and optimization of proteins. The team has just under 100 people and is distributed across Amsterdam, Boston, and Zurich.