Founders’ Associate, Office of the CEO

The role

You will support the CEO and Head of Strategic Growth by owning the CEO's operating rhythm and driving cross-company projects. You will also manage the founders' calendar, travel, and communications.

What you will do

• Run trackers, follow-ups, and action items from leadership meetings
• Prepare briefings and pre-reads for board, investor, customer, and candidate conversations
• Turn long documents and discussions into short summaries with recommendations
• Drive cross-company projects to completion
• Draft narratives, memos, and communications in the CEO's voice
• Identify broken or drifting processes and propose fixes
• Manage the founders' calendar, priorities, and incoming requests
• Coordinate domestic and international travel and logistics
• Act as a point of contact for the team, investors, customers, and partners
• Handle highly sensitive information with discretion

Required qualifications

• Think clearly and write clearly
• Be accurate with a system for checking details
• Form recommendations with options and a point of view
• Work well with minimal direction
• Be comfortable working mostly in writing
• Raise bad news early and push back respectfully
• Use AI as a force multiplier
• Be curious about technology, customers, and the business
• Have a track record of staying in roles long enough to see work through
• Bachelor's degree

Nice to have

• Occasional travel to Emeryville

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

About the company

Atomic Machines is building the Matter Compiler™, an AI-native, all-digital manufacturing system for micro-machines. The company was founded by Jeff Holden and has raised $250 million to date.