Executive Assistant (to the CEO)

The role

You will own the CEO's calendar, communications, and logistics to enable them to focus on business success. This includes managing the CEO's inbox, preparing meeting context, and handling both professional and personal administration.

What you will do

• Own the CEO's calendar end to end
• Build and maintain a CEO operating system
• Prep the CEO for every meeting
• Capture action items
• Manage the CEO's inbox
• Serve as a point of contact for investors, board members, design partners, customers, and press
• Coordinate with EAs and chiefs of staff at partner, customer, and investor organizations
• Plan and book domestic and international travel
• Coordinate appointments, household services, and family travel
• Solve problems in real time when plans change

Required qualifications

• Proven experience supporting c-suite executives in the fastest paced environments
• Supported the CEO of another hypergrowth startup, or supported Partners at the most demanding investment banking, private equity or venture capital firms
• Ability to preempt a need and to fill that need, without explicit direction
• Highest sense of urgency to all tasks
• No ego approach to work
• Strong judgment and prioritization instincts
• Exceptional written communication
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities
• High EQ, real discretion, and obsessive attention to detail
• Fluency with modern tools (Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Linear)
• Strong understanding of how a tech startup operates
• Comfort supporting both professional and personal logistics

Benefits

• Competitive base + equity
• Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
• 401K match
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual offsite
• Early-exercise stock options

About the company

Blacksmith builds infrastructure to run CI workloads fast using a global fleet of bare-metal machines. The company has raised $125M from Sequoia, Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners.