--- title: 'Executive Assistant at Valdera' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/executive-assistant-valdera-san-francisco-s9tmpr3fjtn3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Executive Assistant at Valdera - **Company:** Valdera - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-04-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/valdera/0465865e-5e47-4f38-9374-3df9820db7e1 ## Job description About Us: At Valdera, we help manufacturers bring their ideas to life by transforming how they source materials. Our platform makes it easy to find the best materials and suppliers, enabling them to build high-quality products and deliver them to millions of people worldwide. We are a fast-growing team with a proven track record of working with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers, beauty brands, and chemical companies. We hire talented, driven individuals who thrive in high-performance environments and want to grow their careers quickly. Our culture empowers top talent to take on meaningful challenges, collaborate with industry leaders, and see the real impact of their work. If you’re looking for a fast-paced environment where your ideas drive change, Valdera is the place for you. Join us and help shape the future of manufacturing. Role Description: We're hiring an Executive Assistant to serve as the operational backbone of Valdera. You'll be the glue that keeps this team moving forward — keeping the office running smoothly, coordinating logistics for the leadership team, managing day-to-day operational tasks, and building the company culture programs that make Valdera a place people love. This role sits at the center of the company. You'll coordinate team on-sites and retreats, manage the office, lead our culture committee, and provide administrative support to the leadership team. This is a high-impact role at a fast-growing company. You'll have real ownership over keeping the company and events running smoothly, and the culture programs you build will shape what it feels like to work here. Role Responsibilities: Strategic event planning & culture ownership - Plan and execute company retreats and team onsites end-to-end — venue selection, travel and hotel booking, agendas, and on-the-ground logistics - Build and lead Valdera's culture committee from the ground up, defining its goals, recruiting members, and running regular programming - Own company-wide celebrations and employee appreciation initiatives, including birthdays, work anniversaries, holidays, and milestones - Coordinate travel for team, as needed, including flights and hotel accommodations San Francisco office management - Keep the office running smoothly, including stocking snacks and supplies, sharing management updates, and coordinating maintenance - Support in‑person event/on‑site logistics support when teams are running onsites in SF HR systems administration & company operations - Own day-to-day HR operations such as onboarding, offboarding, policies, and employee records - Manage budgets for company retreats, team onsites, and discretionary team spend - Maintain company-wide policies (travel, expenses, equipment) and other compliance tasks - Support interview scheduling, candidate coordination, and recruiting logistics Experience & Qualifications: - Experience in an operations or administrative role; a traditional EA or office manager background works, but so does someone scrappy who's worn a lot of hats at a startup or other fast-paced company - Experience in planning company retreats, offsites, and/or other events, including coordinating travel & logistics across the team - Highly organized with strong attention to detail - Willingness to occasionally adapt to varying schedules to support urgent priorities Salary Range: Salary ranges are determined by multiple factors, including the labor market, market compensation bands, internal parity, and budget considerations. The final offer will be based on the candidate’s individual skills, qualifications, location, and experience relative to the requirements of the role. Range: $70-130k Benefits: Valdera offers generous benefits to employees. Full time employees are eligible for premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance coverage. You will be provided a more detailed breakdown of your options prior to joining Valdera. Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: Valdera is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are dedicated to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination, where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute. Please note that Valdera uses E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires. ## About Valdera ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Valdera is an AI-powered digital sourcing platform that helps businesses buy and sell chemicals and raw materials efficiently. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with an office in Casciana Terme Lari, Italy) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Sruti Arulmani (CEO) and Dheev Arulmani (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Chemical and raw materials procurement / supply chain technology. - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise buyers and suppliers across industries such as chemical manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, beauty, food & beverage, industrial manufacturing, oil & gas, automotive, and more. - **Mission/Purpose**: To modernize the antiquated chemical sourcing process using AI, data science, and machine learning, bringing transparency, efficiency, and sustainability to direct materials procurement. ## Products & Services - **Valdera Platform (SaaS)**: An AI operating system for chemical and raw material procurement. It ingests a buyer’s total raw material spend, creates a digital control tower of materials and suppliers, applies market intelligence, and enables end-to-end workflows including supplier discovery, RFQ routing, quoting, logistics evaluation, and qualification of new materials. The platform is not a marketplace or distributor; it matches buyers with qualified, best-fit suppliers globally. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised **$15M** (Series A led by Index Ventures, announced October 2024; previous seed round in October 2021). - **Notable Investors**: Index Ventures (lead), with 5 investors participating in the Series A. - **Growth Signals**: - Database of **400,000+ suppliers**, **1.7M+ CAS numbers**, spanning **130 countries**. - Partners with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers and major household names in beauty, pharma, etc. (customers spending >$10B in raw materials). - Featured at DPW New York 2026, a leading procurement and supply chain technology event. - Headcount of approximately **40 employees** (LinkedIn, verified) distributed across 12 countries. - Active hiring for roles such as Customer Success Manager, Chemical Data Scientist, Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding Enterprise Account Executive, and Product Manager. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical focus**: Unlike generic LLMs, Valdera builds its data architecture and AI models specifically for chemicals and raw materials, handling complex specifications, chemical structures, and regulatory requirements. - **Vast proprietary dataset**: The platform’s market intelligence draws on an extensive supplier and CAS-number database, enabling accurate discovery and qualification. - **End-to-end digitization**: Covers the entire workflow of a category manager, from spend analysis to supplier qualification, reducing manual processes and enabling 10–50x capability improvements. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to expand the platform’s market intelligence layer and AI capabilities for direct materials procurement. - Drive adoption among large industrial and consumer goods buyers. - Enable sustainability tracking (packaging, shipping, environmental impact) as part of the sourcing process. - Grow the partner ecosystem and support global expansion (office in Italy, remote workforce across 12 countries). ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Mission**: Opportunity to build “the world’s best procurement sourcing platform” and disrupt a massive, antiquated industry using cutting-edge AI and data science. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first working environment; office spaces available in San Francisco and New York. - **Compensation & Benefits**: - 100% employer-paid premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision (coverage for dependents also available). - Competitive compensation, pre-IPO equity with 4-year vest and 1-year cliff, plus 401(k) with Traditional & ROTH options. - Monthly wellness bonus. - Generous and flexible PTO, sick leave, parental leave, and 11 company-paid holidays. - **Engineering Culture**: Roles include Forward Deployed Engineer and Chemical Data Scientist, focusing on real-world AI/ML challenges in supply chain. The team values accuracy and domain expertise over generic models. ## Sources 1. [Valdera Homepage](https://www.valdera.com/) 2. [Valdera About Page](https://www.valdera.com/about/) 3. [Valdera Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/valdera) 4. [Valdera LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/valdera) 5. 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