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# Executive Business Partner (Office of the CEO) at World Labs

- **Company:** World Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/worldlabs/jobs/4370040009

## Job description

## About World Labs

[World Labs](https://www.worldlabs.ai/) is a frontier AI research and product company advancing spatial intelligence, the next frontier beyond large language models. Co-founded by [Dr. Fei-Fei Li](https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li), [Justin Johnson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-johnson-41b43664/) and [Ben Mildenhall](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-mildenhall-86b4739b/), the company is pioneering world models that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with virtual and physical worlds.

The company’s flagship product, [Marble](https://marble.worldlabs.ai/), transforms text, images, and video into fully navigable 3D worlds, unlocking applications across gaming, film, architecture, robotics, and immersive digital experiences. Backed by leading investors and with over $1B raised, World Labs is assembling a world-class team at the intersection of AI research and real-world deployment.

## Role Overview

World Labs is seeking an Executive Business Partner (EBP) to support the CEO. This is a highly strategic and execution-oriented role designed to create leverage for one of the most influential leaders in AI.

The EBP will operate as a hybrid of Executive Assistant (EA) and Personal Assistant (PA), owning priorities end-to-end, anticipating needs, and ensuring seamless execution across the CEO’s professional landscape, including both World Labs and her ongoing commitments at Stanford.

This is a high-trust role for someone who brings excellent judgment and discretion, is highly detail-oriented without sacrificing speed, and knows how to create leverage in a fast-moving environment with significant internal and external demands. The ideal candidate will not only manage execution, but also act as a force multiplier, reducing cognitive load, driving alignment, and enabling the leadership to focus on the highest-impact priorities.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own CEO’s calendar end to end: sequence priorities, protect focus time, anticipate conflicts, and exercise sound judgment on what requires her time and attention. Partner closely with the COO and EA/Ops team to coordinate schedules and priorities.
- Work very closely with the CEO’s Stanford team on competing conflicts and priorities to ensure a seamless schedule. Coordinate complex internal and external scheduling, including executive meetings, press, speaking engagements, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Plan and coordinate meetings, travels, events, and logistics end to end, ensuring the right preparation, context, and follow-through.
- Build and maintain a lightweight operating system around priorities, open loops, follow-ups, and key commitments so important work continues moving forward.
- Ensure the CEO is prepared for key meetings with the right context, pre-reads, agendas, and understanding of who is in the room and what matters.
- Capture decisions and action items, proactively drive follow-through, and ensure nothing important gets lost between conversations.
- Manage and triage CEO’s inbox, surfacing what requires her attention and drafting thoughtful responses when appropriate. Serve as a trusted partner in prioritization.
- Personal Assistance: Provide thoughtful personal support when needed, including appointments, vendors, and travel coordination, handling sensitive matters with discretion and sound judgment.
- Anticipate needs, identify issues early, and take initiative to resolve them proactively with minimal direction.
- Be comfortable working within a high-stakes and time sensitive environment.

## Key Qualifications

- 8+ years of experience supporting c-suite, founder, or similarly high-profile leader in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Exceptional judgment, discretion, and ability to handle highly confidential information.
- Operationally minded, organized, and detail-oriented, with a natural ability to build systems, create structure, and anticipate needs in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Demonstrated capability orchestrating very complex local and global travel logistics, giving consideration to any additional requirements for a high profile and highly recognized individual.
- Strong written and verbal communicator who can adapt thoughtfully to different working styles and build effective relationships across research, engineering, product, marketing, and operations.
- Experience in technology, AI, academia, or research environments is a plus.
- Bilingual fluency in English and Mandarin is a must.
- Thoughtful, considerate, and proactively identifies situations and events that require a more nuanced approach or special touch.
- Tech-savvy, with fluency in modern productivity tools (e.g., Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini, Google Workspace, Slack, Signal).
- Willingness to be in the San Francisco office 5 days. Flexibility to travel to Palo Alto as required.

We are hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you are ready to help build technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

## Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

## Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

Pay Range

$200K-$250K base salary (good-faith estimate for San Francisco Bay Area upon hire; actual offer based on experience, skills, and qualifications)

Total Compensation

Base salary plus equity awards

Salary History

We do not request or consider prior compensation in making offers

Compliance: Cal. Lab. Code §432.3 (pay scale disclosure & salary history ban); Cal. Lab. Code §1197.5 (Equal Pay Act); Cal. Gov. Code §12940 (FEHA); 42 U.S.C. §2000e (Title VII); 29 U.S.C. §621 (ADEA); 42 U.S.C. §12101 (ADA)

## About World Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: World Labs builds frontier spatial intelligence models (Large World Models) that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with 3D environments, enabling anyone to create persistent 3D worlds from text, images, or video.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Spatial Intelligence / Generative 3D Models
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in entertainment, education, design, simulation, robotics, and storytelling; also individual creators and developers via the product Marble.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Spatial intelligence transforms seeing into doing, understanding into reasoning, and imagining into creating.” The company aims to unlock AI’s full potential by moving from 2D pixels to full 3D worlds.

## Products & Services
- **Marble**: A generative 3D world creation platform that produces spatially consistent, high-fidelity, and persistent 3D environments from a single image, video, text prompt, or 360 panorama. Supports multimodal inputs, interactive editing, export to various 2D/3D formats, and collaborative sharing on the web. (Type: SaaS / API)
- **Large World Models (LWMs)**: The underlying research and foundation models that power Marble and future applications for simulation, robotics, and scientific discovery. (Type: Research / API / Foundation Model)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – **USD 1.23 billion** raised across 6 rounds (Seed, Venture Rounds, and Series C).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures (lead investors in seed round), Temasek, Sanabil Investments, Cisco Investments, and 39+ other institutional investors (per CB Insights). Major tech talent hires from Meta, Google, NVIDIA, Adobe, and Microsoft.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **171% YoY** to 58 employees (as of mid-2026).
  - Monthly headcount growth rate of **+23.5%**.
  - Series C of **USD 1.0 billion** closed in February 2026 (confirmed by multiple sources).
  - Early customer/product traction with Marble, including case studies and hands-on tutorials.
  - Strong research presence with regular technical publications (e.g., “A Functional Taxonomy of World Models”, “Streaming 3D Gaussian Splatting”).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneering spatial intelligence**: Combines generative AI, computer vision, and graphics to create coherent, editable 3D worlds – a capability that few companies have mastered at this scale.
- **World-class founding team**: Led by Fei-Fei Li (AI pioneer, ImageNet creator) and technologists with deep expertise in neural rendering, 3D reconstruction, and generative modeling (Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall).
- **Tight research-to-product loop**: The company intentionally integrates cutting-edge research with product engineering, enabling rapid deployment of novel capabilities (e.g., Marble’s multimodal input support).
- **Massive funding and investor confidence**: $1.23B in funding, including a $1B Series C, provides long runway for ambitious R&D and scaling.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the Marble platform, refining Large World Models, and expanding use cases into storytelling, simulation, robotics, and scientific discovery. Also focused on hiring top-tier talent across research, engineering, and product.
- **Growth direction**: Continue to push the frontier of 3D generative AI, enabling “the universal interface” for 3D content creation, and eventually interacting with both virtual and physical worlds through spatial intelligence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “A tight feedback loop between research, engineering, and product” – the company values curiosity, creativity, and rapid scientific progress. They emphasize that “now is a unique moment where rapid scientific progress has thinned the barrier between research and applications.”
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: All current job listings are based in San Francisco, CA, indicating an on-site or hybrid expectation. The company’s headquarters is at 640 2nd Street, San Francisco.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Small, fast-growing team (58 people) with deep tech talent from top AI labs (Meta, Google, NVIDIA). Strong focus on real impact and shipping products. Technical stack includes Python, TypeScript, Slack, and modern sprint/launch workflows. Opportunity to work directly with world-renowned researchers and engineers on foundational AI challenges.

## Sources
1. [World Labs website](https://www.worldlabs.ai/)
2. [World Labs About page](https://www.worldlabs.ai/about)
3. [World Labs Careers on Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/worldlabs)
4. [World Labs LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-labs)
5. [CB Insights – World Labs](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/world-labs)

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