Executive Assistant to Founders at Genesis (San Carlos, CA)
Genesis· San Carlos, CA·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
Work directly with the founders as a trusted partner and operational backbone of a fast-growing AI company. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role where you'll anticipate needs, protect founders' time, drive priorities forward, and use AI and automation to make the entire company more efficient.
What You’ll Do
- Own and optimize founders' calendars, prioritize competing requests, protect focus time, and make judgment calls independently.
- Anticipate founders' needs, prepare them for key meetings, and track commitments to ensure follow-through.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, including preparation, logistics, and action items.
- Serve as a trusted point of contact between founders, employees, investors, and external partners.
- Own complex domestic and international travel arrangements, including last-minute changes.
- Support recruiting coordination, candidate visits, and interview logistics.
- Proactively identify operational gaps, streamline processes, and drive ad hoc initiatives from start to finish.
- Build AI agents and automated workflows to eliminate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency across the company.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in executive support, operations, or a similarly high-ownership role, ideally at a fast-growing startup.
- Exceptional speed and execution, with a strong bias for action and relentless follow-through.
- High autonomy, sound judgment, and the ability to anticipate needs and make decisions with limited direction.
- Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills, professionalism, and discretion with sensitive information.
- Resourceful and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and solve problems proactively.
- AI-first mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools and building automations to improve productivity.
- Low ego, high ownership, and willingness to tackle everything from strategic projects to day-to-day logistics.
- 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).