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title: 'Contract Executive Assistant at Cobalt'
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# Contract Executive Assistant at Cobalt

- **Company:** Cobalt
- **Location:** East Coast, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio/jobs/8782624002

## Job description

Job Description

Cobalt is looking for a seasoned Executive Assistant to support our CEO, Sonali Shah, along with key members of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). You are a highly organized team player who is comfortable interacting with all levels of an organization. You are self-motivated, thrive in a fast-paced tech environment, and excel at anticipating needs with high discretion and standards for excellence.

This is a contract to cover a maternity leave.

## What You'll Do

- Executive & Leadership Support: Provide daily support for the CEO, working closely to understand context, maximize effectiveness, and assist with priority initiatives. Support the broader ELT as needed.
- Calendar & Communication Management: Manage full calendars for the CEO (including Board scheduling) and provide support for key leaders (Gunter and Paul) as needed. Oversee daily email communications, track action items, and apprise the CEO of upcoming commitments.
- Travel & Expense Management: Coordinate all travel arrangements for the CEO and key leaders, including preparing and submitting monthly expense reports.
- Meeting & Event Coordination: Lead the coordination, agenda development, material readiness, notes, and follow-up for ELT, CTOO, and company-wide meetings (monthly and quarterly). Plan and execute offsites and company events.
- Project & Administrative Support: Track progress on various projects, create presentations/materials, act as a point of contact for urgent matters, and build strong internal and external relationships.
- Agility: Pivot quickly to jump into shifting priorities and new tasks as needed.

You Have

- Experience: 3–5 years of executive support experience, with demonstrated success supporting C-suite executives.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Google Suite, MS Office, and Confluence.
- Core Competencies: Exceptional organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills with strong attention to detail.
- Communication & Relationships: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to build relationships and handle sensitive matters with high discretion.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Location & Shift Requirements

- Must be based in the US.
- Must be able to work EST business hours.

Pay Disclosure

Cobalt is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $40 - $50 an hour. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.  The salary range may differ in other states and be impacted by proximity to major metropolitan cities.

Diversity at Cobalt

With over 45 nationalities already at Cobalt (and counting), we respect and celebrate diversity! We’re proudly committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. We support each other and are grateful for each Cobalter's contribution to our mission — let's make security dance! Please apply even if you don't meet all the criteria above but are still interested in the job. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

Cobalt (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer, and we want the best available persons for every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws and providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

Cobalt is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). It allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States.

## About Cobalt

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cobalt provides a human-led, AI-powered Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform that enables organizations to conduct continuous offensive security testing across their attack surface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first, with Scandinavian roots and presence in US, UK, and Germany)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Martin Rannje and Christian Hansen (co-founders, per leadership page) [cobalt.io/team]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically Penetration Testing as a Service (PtaaS) and offensive security.
- **Target customers**: B2B, ranging from SMB to enterprise, with a focus on development, security, and operations teams.
- **Mission**: To help organizations “operate fearlessly and innovate securely” by making security testing faster, simpler, and more transparent. [cobalt.io/about]

## Products & Services
- **Cobalt Platform (PTaaS)**: SaaS platform that pairs with a vetted community of pentesters to deliver on-demand penetration tests, starting in as little as 24 hours. Includes automated reconnaissance, AI-powered exploit intelligence, and integrations with ITSM, DevOps, and collaboration tools.
- **Offensive Security Services**: Penetration testing (web, mobile, network, cloud), Digital Risk Assessment (identifying publicly exposed information), and Secure Code Review.
- **Cobalt Core**: An exclusive community of over 400 highly vetted pentesters (acceptance rate ~5%) who conduct thousands of tests annually. Creates a talent marketplace for on-demand security expertise.

All offerings emphasize human expertise amplified by AI and a decade of proprietary exploit intelligence. [cobalt.io]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,500 customers served; platform delivers 2.6x faster time to report and gets customers to remediation 50% faster than traditional approaches.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Fast-growing remote-first cybersecurity start-up; expanding globally with employees from 45+ nationalities; recognized as an award-winning “best workplace”; continuous product innovation in AI and automation. [cobalt.io/life][cobalt.io/about]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-Led, AI-Powered Pentesting**: Combines creative human testing (focusing on business logic abuse) with proprietary exploit intelligence AI to automate recon and isolate high-risk vulnerabilities faster.
- **Speed & Scale**: Start a pentest in 24 hours; 2.6x faster report turnaround; 50% faster remediation cycle.
- **Exclusive Talent Pool**: The Cobalt Core accepts only 5% of applicants, ensuring access to top-tier, vetted security experts.
- **Unified Platform**: Single pane of glass for managing findings, integrations with dev workflows, and continuous testing across the attack surface.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous Offensive Security**: Moving away from point-in-time testing to ongoing, proactive risk management.
- **AI Integration**: Leveraging over a decade of exploit data to continuously refine testing logic and improve automation.
- **Scaling the Community**: Expanding the Cobalt Core and platform to address global shortage of skilled security resources.
- **Customer Agility**: Empowering organizations to do more with less by integrating security testing into development cycles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Innovate Relentlessly,” “Lead with Grit,” “Quality at Speed and Scale,” and “One Cobalt.” Fully remote, remote-first with flexible PTO.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation + equity, medical/dental/life insurance (US), 401k matching, paid parental leave, monthly stipends for wellness, WFH office setup, WiFi, and learning & development.
- **Diversity**: 45+ nationalities; equal opportunity employer that values inclusion and diverse perspectives.
- **Team**: Work directly with experienced senior leaders in a rapidly growing PtaaS market; opportunity to “make your mark.” [cobalt.io/life][job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio]

## Sources
1. [Cobalt Homepage](https://www.cobalt.io)
2. [Careers at Cobalt (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio)
3. [About Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/about)
4. [Life at Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/life)
5. [Leadership Team](https://www.cobalt.io/team)

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