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title: 'Executive Assistant to Founder at Fictiv'
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# Executive Assistant to Founder at Fictiv

- **Company:** Fictiv
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fictiv/jobs/8783502002

## Job description

## About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

Impact in This Role

We are seeking a highly capable, proactive Executive Assistant to serve as a trusted right hand to our Founder. This role goes beyond traditional administrative support — you will be a strategic partner who ensures the Founder’s time, energy, and attention are focused where they matter most. This role requires someone who can bring structure to a fast-paced environment, ensure critical tasks are tracked and completed, and help maximize the Founder’s effectiveness and productivity. You will manage competing priorities across a dynamic calendar, drive seamless communication, and operate with a high degree of autonomy, discretion, and sound judgment.

## What You Will Be Doing

- Manage and optimize the Founder's calendars, ensuring alignment across priorities, commitments, and time-sensitive decisions
- Coordinate communications on behalf of the Founder, including email triage, correspondence, and schedulingPrepare briefing materials, agendas, and meeting notes, with clear follow-through on action items
- Manage complex domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and detailed itineraries
- Serve as a liaison between the Founder and internal teams, external partners, and key stakeholders
- Assist with special projects and strategic initiatives as they arise

## Experience & Qualifications

- Proven experience supporting an individual, Founder, or executive in a similar role
- Experience managing complex scheduling, travel, and logistics across multiple priorities
- Experience handling confidential information, personal logistics, and ad hoc requests with discretion
- Strong background in event planning, hospitality or private client services
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to anticipate needs proactively
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly personalized environment

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Salary Range: $75,000 to $90,000/year, depending upon experience

## Perks and Benefits

- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K plan
- Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
- Parental leave programs
- Paid volunteer days
- Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
- And much, much more!

Interested in learning more?  We look forward to hearing from you soon. We’re actively seeking teammates who:

- Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
- Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
- Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
- Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
- Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.

## About Fictiv

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fictiv provides a digital operating system for custom manufacturing, connecting product creators with a global network of vetted manufacturers to source custom mechanical parts quickly and efficiently.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E, last funding round May 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States, with additional offices in Guangzhou, China; Phoenix, Arizona; Pune, India; and Bengaluru, India
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Dave Evans and Nathan Evans

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Custom manufacturing / Digital supply chain services
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises across industries such as automotive, medical devices, robotics, and consumer electronics
- **Mission / Purpose**: “To enable product creators to innovate” by building the world’s operating system for custom manufacturing – making it possible to build hardware at the speed of software.

## Products & Services
- **Digital Manufacturing Platform**: An integrated online system for quoting, design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback, order management, and real-time tracking. Supports 3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and urethane casting, with lead times as fast as 1–2 days.
- **Global Manufacturing Network**: A managed network of manufacturing partners across the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and Japan, offering supply chain resilience and regional sourcing flexibility.
- **Technical Program Management**: Hands-on support from Fictiv engineers and program managers to guide customers from prototype through full-scale production.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $200M (as of Series E in May 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Includes Honeywell, Intel, Bill Gates (via Gates Frontier), and other institutional investors [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over 35 million parts manufactured to date [fictiv.com](https://www.fictiv.com/)
  - Served more than 5,000 companies
  - Expanded to four global Centers of Excellence (U.S., Mexico, India, China) to reduce supply chain risk
  - Active hiring across engineering, sales, and operations (51 active jobs on Greenhouse as of mid-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Digital-first OS for manufacturing**: Combines an automated quoting and DFM engine with a vetted global network, reducing the typical friction of custom part sourcing.
- **Speed and traceability**: Parts delivered in as fast as 24 hours, with full traceability and trackability at every step.
- **Global, multi-region supply chain**: Customers can choose supply regions (U.S., Mexico, India, China, Japan) to mitigate geopolitical and logistics risk.
- **Enterprise-grade quality management**: Integrated quality control and program management support, appealing to Fortune 500-level production requirements.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling global manufacturing hubs**: Expanding in-region Centers of Excellence to offer faster, lower-risk production close to customers.
- **AI and automation**: Using artificial intelligence to accelerate quoting, DFM feedback, and supply chain decisions (including in employment decisions for internal operations).
- **Deepening enterprise relationships**: Targeting large OEMs and regulated industries (medical, aerospace, automotive) with compliance and traceability features.
- **Platform ecosystem**: Enhancing the digital platform with new materials, finishes, and real-time analytics to further reduce time-to-market for hardware innovators.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes a “Service Mentality” (value #2), collaboration, diversity, and autonomy. Described as a passionate team across multiple global offices.
- **Work policy**: Remote-friendly environment with systems to keep distributed teams connected. Offices in San Francisco, Guangzhou, Phoenix, Pune, and Bengaluru.
- **Perks and benefits**:
  - Monthly virtual work stipend
  - Wellness perks
  - Paid volunteer days
  - Learning and development stipend (Udemy Business courses, continued education stipends)
  - Leadership coaching for high performers
  - Paid parental leave
  - Equity options
- **Engineering culture**: Access to modern tools (Salesforce, data engineering, integrations) and direct exposure to executive leadership; strong focus on career growth and autonomy.

## Sources
1. [Fictiv Careers Page](https://www.fictiv.com/careers)
2. [Fictiv Main Website](https://www.fictiv.com/)
3. [Fictiv About Us Page](https://www.fictiv.com/about-us)
4. [Crunchbase – Fictiv](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fictiv)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board – Fictiv](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fictiv)

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