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title: 'Executive Assistant to the CEO at Knit'
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# Executive Assistant to the CEO at Knit

- **Company:** Knit
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/knit/jobs/4417634009

## Job description

Who we're looking for

Title: Executive Assistant to the CEO

Department: General & Admin

Team: Office of the CEO (Right now this includes a Chief of Staff, with 1-2 more hires slated for Q1 ‘27)

Knit’s CEO & Co-Founder: [Aneesh Dhawan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aneesh-dhawan-140212141/)

Supervisory Responsibility: This role does not currently have direct reports.

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Location: New York City - This role is a hybrid in-person in our Midtown NYC office. This role is expected to be in office 3 days per week, typically Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Travel: This role will not be expected to regularly travel. Note, Knit US does a US All Team Summit in-person once per year.

A little about us...

[Knit](https://goknit.com/) is the AI-Native Research agency helping enterprise brands get from question to story in a week or less. In under two years, we’ve partnered with 60+ leading F500 enterprise brands, including Amazon, Mars, NASCAR, JBL, ESPN, and Paramount. Knit has raised $30M to date, including a $16.1M Series A in July 2025. Knit currently has 80 employees and is NYC-based and US remotely-friendly.

## Overview

The Executive Assistant to the CEO is responsible for maximizing CEO effectiveness by ensuring his time, commitments, communication, and logistics run seamlessly. The purpose of this role is to maximize the amount of time the CEO can focus on high-leverage work that only he can do. Working closely with the CEO and Chief of Staff, this role creates the proactive structure and preparation that allows the CEO to stay focused and coordinated.

Success | What outcomes you're responsible for...

- Primary Outcome: A CEO whose time and logistics are exceptionally and proactively well managed so he has maximum focus on high-leverage work only he can do.
- More about the CEO’s Outcomes: At Knit, the CEO is responsible for driving “Where are we going and how do we win?” His core ownership is around vision, talent, and finance, which includes setting company direction, pressure-testing key hypotheses, recruiting exceptional people, developing leaders, and ensuring we have the capital to achieve our goals.His ideal Day-to-day should ideally look like: Key interviews, time with direct reports and leaders to create clarity, opening commercial doors, advancing and closing major opportunities, and de-risking company-level bets.

Responsibilities | What you will own...

- Own the CEO’s calendar and time. Manage and prioritize meetings with strategic intent, protect focus time, anticipate conflicts, and think several weeks ahead.
- Keep the CEO prepared. Ensure the CEO has the context, materials, agendas, and follow-ups needed for meetings and important commitments.
- Manage CEO logistics. Own travel, scheduling, expenses, reservations, and other administrative details from start to finish.
- Coordinate key stakeholders. Serve as a highly responsive point of coordination for executives, board members, investors, candidates, customers, and other important stakeholders.
- Stay ahead of commitments. Track deadlines, follow-ups, and action items so nothing requiring the CEO’s attention falls through the cracks.
- Support high-priority projects and events. Partner with the Chief of Staff, Head of Operations, Workplace Operations, and other leadership on important meetings, company events, and other CEO priorities as needed.

Required Skills & Experiences

The things that matter most to us in this role are:

- Pace: You have 5+ years of experience supporting a CEO or founder in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment, ideally at Series B stage. You understand startup velocity, thrive under the demands of it, and move quickly & confidently even when info is incomplete.
- Proactive Understanding & Communication: You anticipate needs, see around corners, and solve problems before they reach the CEO. You are exceptionally organized and detail-oriented, and you communicate with clarity, brevity, professionalism, and responsiveness across internal and external stakeholders.
- Trust: You exercise exceptional judgment and discretion, particularly with confidential information and founder privacy. You know what to handle independently, what to escalate, and how to navigate competing priorities without constant direction. You are a trusted partner with other leadership, driving productive collaboration without friction.
- Style & Taste: You have strong instincts for how the CEO should show up across every touchpoint, from comms and meetings to travel, events, thank you notes, and beyond. Your judgment reflects the intersection of a high-growth technology company and an Enterprise brand: modern, entrepreneurial, polished, thoughtful, high-integrity, and never performative.

## Benefits

Upon joining the Knit team, you will receive a competitive salary, Equity Options, Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), and Additional Coverage, a company laptop and one-time, onboarding Technology Stipend, a 401(k) with company match, flexible time-off, hybrid working, and more!

Salary

In accordance with our pay transparency guidelines, the expected salary range of the Executive Assistant to the CEO is $150,000 - $160,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s level, experience, and qualifications upon joining Knit.

Our company values

We are the Championship Team. This means we:

- Are 1% better every day: We approach situations with a growth mindset and ask, “How can we make the business better?” and “What would it take?”
- Play to win: We set audacious goals & push ourselves to achieve with a bias towards action.
- Keep the main thing the main thing: We identify what has the biggest impact and prioritize it.

Knit Privacy Policy [here.](https://goknit.com/privacy-policy)

CCPA disclosure [here](https://goknit.com/notice-at-collection).

## About Knit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Knit is an AI-native research agency that combines researcher expertise with autonomous AI agents to deliver decision-ready quantitative and qualitative insights faster than traditional agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $30.65M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (LinkedIn data; earlier funding rounds under a predecessor entity may exist)
- **Founders**: Aneesh Dhawan (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Market Research / Insights & Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprise insights teams and research leads at global brands (Amazon, ESPN, Mars Wrigley, T-Mobile, NASCAR, Timex)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To unlock entirely new ways for the world’s most iconic enterprises to run research – enabling insights teams to operate at the speed of the business and focus on strategic thinking rather than execution.

## Products & Services
- **AI-Native Research Agency (End-to-End Service)**: Researcher-driven AI platform that manages the full research lifecycle – scoping, questionnaire design, sample & fielding (own panel of 65M+ vetted respondents or bring-your-own), mixed-method quant & qual analysis, and decision-ready reporting. Studies can go from scoping to story in a week or less.
- **Researcher-Driven AI™**: A methodology where a dedicated forward-deployed researcher grounds the AI in sound research design and business context, ensuring outputs are defensible and decision-ready.
- **Research Context Library**: Stores past studies, brand guidelines, and business context so each new project starts smarter and learns over time.
- **Survey Creation & Programming**: AI-assisted questionnaire building with quant and qual (including video questions and AI-moderated questions) in a single study.
- **Automated Analysis & Reporting**: AI generates structured reports with charts, headlines, key themes, and video summaries – exportable to PowerPoint or Google Slides.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$1 million (LinkedIn estimate)
  - Total Funding: $30.65 million (across 7 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Series A (August 2025): $16.1M led by GFT Ventures and Sound Ventures
  - Series A (September 2024): $9.0M led by Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund
  - Early investors: Techstars (Pre-Seed 2019)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 67 employees (+65.4% year-over-year)
  - LinkedIn follower growth: +143.7% annually (10,511 followers)
  - Clients include Amazon, Mars Wrigley, NASCAR, Timex, T-Mobile, ESPN
  - 15 active job postings (as of mid-2026)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Researcher-Driven AI**: Unlike DIY AI tools that hand off raw outputs, Knit embeds a real researcher in every project to oversee methodology, business context, and analysis – delivering agency-quality insights at platform speed.
- **Speed + Quality Tradeoff Eliminated**: Claims to reduce timelines from months to a week while cutting costs vs. traditional agencies – all without sacrificing rigor.
- **Unified Quant + Qual**: Single study supports both quantitative and qualitative methods (including video), providing a holistic picture automatically analyzed together.
- **Context Memory**: The platform retains and applies past research context, brand guidelines, and business learning across projects, increasing efficiency over time.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise expansion**: Aggressively hiring for Enterprise Account Executives, Client Partners, and a Director of Enterprise Sales (West Coast / PST/MST) – indicating a push into larger accounts.
- **Product-led growth**: Emphasizing a self-serve + researcher-assisted model to serve both DIY and full-service customers.
- **AI capabilities deepening**: Recent departure of Head of AI (May 2026) may signal a pivot or scaling of the AI team; current job postings include Staff Full Stack Engineer and Advanced Analytics Lead.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as a place where "building the next great technology to hit the insights world" relies on exceptional talent. Team is growing rapidly (+65% YoY) with a collaborative, hybrid environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Hybrid working model explicitly listed as a benefit. Offices in New York (HQ), Austin, and presence in India and Canada.
- **Notable perks** (from careers page):
  - Competitive salary
  - Flexible Time Off
  - Healthcare Insurance
  - 401(k) Match
  - Paid Parental Leave
  - Company Laptop
- **Engineering culture**: Recent job postings include a Staff Full Stack Engineer role; technical team comprises ~7% of headcount. Emphasis on building an AI-native research platform suggests a fast-paced, product-forward environment.
- **Employer Rating**: 3.7/5.0 on LinkedIn (3 reviews), with Work-Life Balance scored 4.0.

## Sources
1. [goknit.com/about/careers](https://goknit.com/about/careers)
2. [goknit.com/](https://goknit.com/)
3. [goknit.com/about](https://goknit.com/about)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/goknit)
5. [JazzHR Career Page](https://goknit.applytojob.com/apply)

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