--- title: 'Executive Assistant to Founders, NYC at Scrunch' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-to-founders-nyc-scrunch-new-york-h14ezdrr9r7j' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Executive Assistant to Founders, NYC at Scrunch - **Company:** Scrunch - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scrunch/a0148bce-f145-4ddd-8226-10105fd1eff1 ## Job description ## ABOUT SCRUNCH Scrunch https://scrunchai.com/, a Sitecore company, is on a mission to bring brands to an AI-first future—where people increasingly rely on LLMs to discover, understand, and act on information that matters to them. As AI search and conversational agents replace traditional web search and browsing, Scrunch helps marketing teams rethink how their products and services are discovered and surfaced on AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more—working with AI platforms, not against them. This shift represents the biggest change to marketing since the dawn of the internet. Today, more than 500 paying brands—including Fortune 500 companies like Lenovo, category-defining brands like Akamai, ADP, Lenovo and breakout startups like Clerk—use the platform. ## ABOUT THE ROLE This is not a calendar-and-travel-only role. You’ll be the operational backbone for the founders - anticipating needs, creating systems, removing friction, and making sure nothing slips through the cracks. You’ll handle both professional and personal priorities so the founders can focus on leading the company. You’ll also help train us to work better with you. You must be based in NYC for this role. It is hybrid with an in-office requirement of 3 days/week. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own and manage complex calendars, meetings, and travel - ruthlessly prioritizing for impact. - Act as a gatekeeper for time and energy; help the founders focus on what matters most. - Prepare agendas, capture and track action items, and follow up relentlessly. - Coordinate across the leadership team and with external partners. - Handle personal errands and life admin to keep the founders’ lives running seamlessly. - Create and refine processes for scheduling, information flow, and task tracking. - Anticipate needs before they’re expressed, and resolve problems before they arise. - Serve as an NYC office on-site point of contact for day-to-day office needs, visitors, deliveries, and vendors. - Coordinate with building management on access, maintenance, and facilities requests - Assist with internal events, team gatherings, and all-hands meetings - Maintain NYC office supply inventory and manage reorders - Support ad hoc administrative or operational tasks as needed ## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Proven experience as an EA, ideally in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment. - Exceptional organizational skills, with a bias for action and follow-through. - Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive information. - Clear, concise communicator - both written and verbal. - Proactive, adaptable, and unflappable when plans change (and they will). - Comfortable balancing both personal and professional responsibilities for executives. If you’re resourceful, highly organized, and energized by making other people’s lives run better, we’d love to meet you. ## BENEFITS FOR FULL-TIME US EMPLOYEES: 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, vision, and life & disability insurance 🧸 Family support: Paid parental leave when life's biggest moments happen 🖥️ Remote support: Phone and internet reimbursement 📚 Growth: L&D budget for courses, conferences, and whatever makes you sharper 🏖️ Time off: Flexible PTO — take what you need, we trust you 🌱 Financial wellness: 401(k) 🤝 Connection: Team offsites and a crew that genuinely likes each other Scrunch is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Right to Work https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf E-Verify Participation https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf ## About Scrunch ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Scrunch provides an AI search optimization platform that helps brands monitor, analyze, and optimize how they appear in AI-generated answers on platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Meta AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Sitecore in June 2026); previously backed by $26M in venture funding. - **Headquarters**: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (also an office in New York City) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Chris Andrew (CEO) and Robert MacCloy (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Artificial intelligence, digital marketing, search engine optimization (AI SEO), customer experience - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise brands and agencies (e.g., Akamai, Lenovo, ADP, Publicis, Seer Interactive) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To help brands thrive in a world where AI agents broker the relationship between companies and their customers.” (from scrunch.com/blog) ## Products & Services - **AI Monitoring & Citations** (SaaS): Tracks brand presence across AI platforms, surfaces citations, monitors prompt results, and benchmarks topic share versus competitors. - **Agent Experience Platform (AXP)** (SaaS/API): Detects AI agents at the edge and serves them AI‑optimized content without disrupting the human website experience. Includes features like agent traffic analytics, AI‑specific sitemaps, and token‑light page delivery. - **Services**: Forward deployed engineer, white‑glove onboarding, and data API integration for enterprise customers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Sitecore in June 2026, terms not public) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $26M (from Mayfield, Decibel, Homebrew, GTM Capital, and angel investors including TJ Parker, Bryant Chou, Steve Garrity, Clara Shih). An earlier filing reports $22M total raised per CBInsights. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield, Decibel, Homebrew, GTM Capital; now part of Sitecore (a digital experience platform serving thousands of global brands). - **Growth Signals**: 500+ enterprise customers; Akamai reported a 364% increase in brand presence for non‑branded prompts and 218% increase in AI citations after enabling AXP; Runpod reported a 400% increase in paying customers tied to AI search optimization; platform processes 6M+ citations and 1.5M+ prompts weekly. ## Competitive Advantages - First‑mover in the AI search optimization category (AI SEO) with a purpose‑built Agent Experience Platform (AXP) that differentiates between human and AI agent traffic at the edge. - SOC2 Type II certified, role‑based access, and SAML/OAuth SSO, making it enterprise‑ready from the start. - Deep integrations with major AI models (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta AI, Google Gemini) and the ability to serve AI‑optimized content without degrading the human web experience. ## Strategic Focus - Post‑acquisition by Sitecore, Scrunch continues to operate as a standalone platform while accelerating its product roadmap. The combined vision is to create a closed loop from AI discovery to customer decision – helping brands translate visibility into action through Sitecore’s content and experience management capabilities. - Priority areas: expanding AI agent intelligence, deeper integration with Sitecore’s DXP, and scaling the platform to serve Sitecore’s global enterprise base. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Founded by experienced SaaS leaders (former CPO and CTO of Hearsay Systems, acquired by Yext). Emphasis on technical depth, AI innovation, and helping enterprises navigate the shift to AI‑driven discovery. - **Work model**: Hybrid and remote roles available; offices in Salt Lake City, UT and New York City, NY. Most engineering and customer‑facing roles offer location flexibility. - **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Focus on building infrastructure for AI agent traffic, working with cutting‑edge LLM models, and solving unique scalability challenges (handling millions of AI prompts per week). CTO Robert MacCloy brings deep infrastructure experience from Quantcast and Hearsay. - **Recent job postings** include Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Product Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Customer Success Manager, Account Executive, and AI Search Analyst – indicating a growing go‑to‑market and engineering team. ## Sources 1. [scrunch.com/about](https://scrunch.com/about/) 2. [scrunch.com](https://scrunch.com/) 3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/scrunch-ai) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/scrunch-ai) 5. 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