Executive Assistant to Founders at Genesis (Bay Area)
Genesis· Bay Area·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
Work directly with the founders as the operational backbone of a fast-growing AI company. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role where you'll keep things running smoothly while using AI and automation to make the entire company more efficient.
What You’ll Do
- Manage and protect founders' calendars, prioritize competing requests, and resolve conflicts quickly.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, including preparation, logistics, and follow-ups.
- Serve as a key point of contact between founders, employees, investors, and external partners.
- Own domestic and international travel arrangements, including last-minute changes.
- Support recruiting coordination, candidate visits, and interview logistics.
- Spot operational gaps, proactively solve problems, and take ownership of ad hoc initiatives.
- Build AI agents and workflows to automate repetitive tasks and inefficient processes across executive support and the company.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in executive support, operations, or a similarly fast-paced role, ideally at a high-growth startup.
- Extremely fast and reliable, with a strong bias for action and follow-through.
- High autonomy and sound judgment, with the ability to anticipate needs and operate with limited direction.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, professionalism, and discretion.
- Adaptable and resourceful, comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities.
- AI-first mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools and building automations.
- Bonus: Technical fluency with AI agents, APIs, scripting, or workflow automation platforms.
Why work at Genesis
- Culture: Values include candor, responsibility, limitless ambition, and a joyful journey. The team is described as multicultural, optimistic, and pragmatic.
- Work model: Hybrid/office-based presence in Paris, San Francisco Bay Area, and London. No explicit remote policy mentioned, but the company emphasizes in-person collaboration.
- Engineering culture: Builders get to work on the hardest problems in robotics and AI – from foundation models to hardware design to data systems. The team includes pioneers of generative simulation, Diffusion Policy, and GPU compilers.
- Notable perks: The chance to shape a category-defining general-purpose robot; close collaboration with world-class investors and advisors; fast-growing startup with significant resources ($105M seed).