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# Executive Assistant to the CEO at Northwood Space

- **Company:** Northwood Space
- **Location:** Torrance, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/27ce80a7-68a5-403a-a5d6-e6958cb4a6b5

## Job description

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.

Role: As Executive Assistant to the CEO at Northwood, you will serve as a highly trusted partner to our CEO, helping maximize their time, focus, and effectiveness as we build the internet for space. You will work closely with the CEO and partner with the broader executive office to ensure seamless coordination and support. This is a dedicated, high-impact executive support role for someone who takes pride in mastering the craft of executive assistance. You will own the day-to-day operational complexity of supporting a CEO whose schedule spans company leadership, customers, investors, strategic partners, press, and other high-priority external engagements. The pace is fast, the expectations are high, and priorities can change with little notice. Success requires exceptional judgment, attention to detail, responsiveness, discretion, and the ability to anticipate needs before they are articulated. You should be comfortable making thoughtful decisions independently, navigating ambiguity, and maintaining composure when multiple high-stakes priorities are moving simultaneously.

Responsibilities:

- Own and strategically manage the CEO's complex, dynamic calendar, prioritizing and sequencing engagements to ensure their time is aligned with the company's highest priorities.
- Serve as a trusted gatekeeper, exercising sound judgment to manage competing requests, protect the CEO's time, and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts and shifting priorities.
- Manage the CEO's inbox and communications, identifying urgent matters, drafting responses in their voice, and ensuring timely follow-through.
- Act as a trusted liaison between the CEO and internal leadership, investors, customers, strategic partners, press, and other high-profile external stakeholders.
- Own end-to-end domestic and international travel planning, including complex itineraries, logistics, and last-minute changes, providing responsive support as needs arise.
- Anticipate the CEO's needs and ensure they are prepared for key engagements by coordinating meeting materials, briefings, relevant context, and logistical details.
- Track executive commitments, action items, and outstanding requests, proactively driving resolution and escalating critical matters when appropriate.
- Develop a deep understanding of the CEO's priorities, working style, and key relationships to operate with increasing independence, exercising exceptional judgment, discretion, and professionalism in all interactions.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of progressive Executive Assistant experience, including direct support for a CEO, founder, or C-level executive in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and sound judgment, with a proven ability to independently manage complex priorities, anticipate needs, and solve problems with limited direction.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, and discretion, with experience engaging senior leaders, investors, customers, and other high-profile stakeholders.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, Slack, and modern productivity tools, including the ability to leverage AI tools to streamline workflows and improve efficiency
- Ability to work onsite five days per week at our Los Angeles-area headquarters, with flexibility to provide occasional evening and weekend support as business and travel needs require.

Additional Information: To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Additional Information: If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

## About Northwood Space

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Building a global ground network for the future of space communications — delivering vertically integrated hardware, software, and shared infrastructure that lets space missions go from concept to live data delivery in months instead of years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $100M in January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (additional offices in Torrance, CA; Washington, D.C.; with presence in the United Kingdom and India)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Bridgit Mendler (CEO, Cofounder), Griffin Cleverly (Co-Founder, CTO), Shaurya Luthra (Co-Founder, Head of Digital)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing; Space-to-ground infrastructure; Satellite communications.
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2G — commercial satellite operators, government agencies (e.g., U.S. Space Force), and defense customers.
- **Mission**: “Take space missions further, faster” by building resilient, cloud-like ground infrastructure for the next century of space operations.

## Products & Services
- **Hardware (Antennas built for scale)** : Phased-array antenna systems designed for volume manufacturing and rapid deployment (hours, not months).
- **Network (Shared infrastructure)** : A horizontally scalable, dynamic capacity provisioning network that eliminates single points of failure and works across multiple orbits and frequency bands.
- **Software (Orchestration intelligence)** : The intelligence layer that schedules contacts, routes data, and manages the entire ground network — enabling on-demand capacity without traditional procurement cycles.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$136.4M** across four rounds (Grant $100K in 2023, Seed $6.3M in 2024, Series A $30M in 2025, Series B $100M in 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (led Seed, Series A, and Series B), Founders Fund (Seed), Washington Harbour Partners (led Series B and a prior round). Strategic partners include government agencies and commercial launch providers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **117.6% YoY** to 65 employees (as of mid-2026).
  - 48 active job postings (+140% YoY increase).
  - Successfully tested next-generation phased array antennas.
  - Won a U.S. Space Force contract (mentioned in news snippets).
  - Expanded to three U.S. offices and international presence (UK, India).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated ground stack** — from antenna hardware to network orchestration software — collapses deployment timelines from years to months/days.
- **Hardware that deploys in hours** and scales like cloud computing, avoiding traditional multi-year procurement cycles.
- **Resilient, shared infrastructure** designed for multiple orbits and frequency bands, reducing single points of failure.
- **Strong talent pipeline** from SpaceX, Anduril, Tesla, Palantir, and other top aerospace/defense firms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the global ground network** by deploying more sites and increasing capacity for both government and commercial customers.
- **Volume manufacturing** of antenna systems to meet surging demand.
- **Deepen partnerships** with defense and intelligence agencies (National Security Space) and commercial satellite operators.
- **Continue hiring aggressively** across engineering, operations, site management, and business development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include humility, bias to action, autonomy, and exceptionalism. Teams are trusted to own their work and make decisions.
- **Impact**: Work is deployed globally — antennas built in Torrance, software orchestrated from LA, sites stood up worldwide.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, employer-sponsored 401(k), paid parental leave, commuter benefits, sponsored clubs and quarterly events.
- **Work Model**: Likely on-site for hardware roles (Torrance, El Segundo, Washington D.C.); some software roles may offer flexibility. Two main office hubs: Los Angeles (HQ) and Washington D.C.
- **Engineering culture**: Fast iteration, real-world deployment, cross-functional collaboration. “If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in locations around the globe, we want you at Northwood.”

## Sources
1. [northwoodspace.io](https://www.northwoodspace.io/)
2. [northwoodspace.io/about-us](https://www.northwoodspace.io/about-us)
3. [northwoodspace.io/careers](https://www.northwoodspace.io/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Northwood](https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwood-space)
5. [Crunchbase – Northwood Space](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/northwood-space)

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