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# Workplace & Talent Acquisition Coordinator at Skip

- **Company:** Skip
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Skip/cea097e8-1d56-448b-8f48-28c0d27f8ad7

## Job description

## ABOUT US:

Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead. Skip is a 28-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.

## The Role

We are seeking a highly organized, people first operator to be the person who keeps Skip running. You will own our Dogpatch office and partner with our Founding Recruiter to run a candidate experience that’s as good as the product we’re building. One day you’re coordinating a five person onsite panel. The next you’re receiving a pallet of actuators and onboarding two new engineers. If something falls through the cracks at Skip, you’re the one who notices first, and then you build a system so it doesn’t happen again.

## What you’ll do

- Own day to day office operations: vendors, facilities, supplies, snacks, deliveries, mail, security, and keeping a shared space for engineers, a machine shop, and a soft goods lab working for everyone
- Schedule and coordinate onsite interviews, candidate travel and logistics
- Be the first and last impression for every visitor to the office, including candidates: greet onsites, keep communication fast and warm, and make sure no one is ever left waiting on an update
- Run new hire onboarding and offboarding, including equipment, accounts, and first day setup
- Support people ops infrastructure, including HRIS (Rippling), benefits administration, employee records, and California compliance basics
- Plan team events, offsites, all hands, and the occasional celebration when a prototype does something it wasn’t supposed to be able to do yet
- Provide scheduling and administrative support to our founders as needed
- Use AI tools to automate the repetitive parts of the job so you can spend your time on people

## What we’re looking for

- Someone who can increase joy in our space, and reduce friction for the team
- 2 to 5 years in office management, recruiting coordination, people operations, or executive support, ideally at a startup
- Exceptional organization and follow through; you manage a dozen moving pieces and nothing gets dropped
- Warm, clear, and professional communication with candidates, vendors, and teammates alike
- Literate with software tools and able to quickly learn how to use ATS and HRIS tools (Ashby, Google Workspace, or similar)
- Sound judgment with confidential information
- Low ego, high ownership; no task is too small, and you’d rather fix the process than complain about it
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in an early stage environment

## Nice to have

- Experience supporting hardware, robotics, or manufacturing teams in a shared office and lab space
- Familiarity with California employment requirements and benefits administration
- Experience planning events or managing a facility buildout or move
- You build with AI tools day to day and can show us a workflow you automated

This is a full time, in office position at the Skip office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Skip is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status. Any and all offers of employment extended by Skip are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States.

## About Skip

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Skip develops powered movewear (wearable exoskeleton pants) that supports human movement, making walking, hiking, and daily mobility easier for people experiencing age‑related decline, injury, or disability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed‑stage; raised $6 M in total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Kathryn Zealand (CEO & Co‑Founder), Anna Roumiantseva (Co‑Founder & CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wearable robotics / consumer health & wellness / mobility technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (active older adults, hikers, people with knee pain or mobility challenges) – “the missing middle” that is neither fully disabled nor fully able
- **Mission**: “Make life joyful through powered movement” — aiming to restore mobility for millions and enable a future where no one is left behind at the trailhead

## Products & Services
- **[MO/GO™](https://www.skipwithjoy.com/)**: The company’s first movewear product — lightweight, apparel‑integrated exoskeleton “powered pants” that provide assistance on inclines and descents, reducing strain on muscles and joints. Built from learnings in exoskeleton force transfer, AI/ML movement interpretation, comfortable wearable design, and consumer‑tech UX. Released in partnership with Arc’teryx for testing/co‑branding (2024).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: $6 M total funding — a $3 M Seed Round and a $3 M Grant, both closed in July 2024 ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/skipwithjoy)).  
  *Note: Tracxn lists the company as “unfunded” but is likely outdated or misclassifying grants; the LinkedIn data is more recent.*
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Spun out of **X, The Moonshot Factory** (Google’s moonshot lab). Partnership with **Arc’teryx** for the MO/GO launch. Founding team includes alumni of Google X.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +62.9 % year‑over‑year to 16 employees (as of mid‑2026). Three open roles posted (Software Engineer, Test; Firmware Engineer; Founding Marketing Lead). Company featured in National Geographic (CEO Kathryn Zealand named a National Geographic 33 honoree). Active in academic research — published a study on hip exoskeleton assistance for people with Parkinson’s disease in *Frontiers in Robotics and AI*.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep tech heritage**: Founders and many team members came from Google X, giving access to years of exoskeleton and force‑transfer research.
- **New product category (“Movewear”)**: First mover in blending robotic exoskeleton technology with stylish, consumer‑friendly wearables — not just medical devices.
- **Strong brand storytelling**: The mission resonates emotionally (“Help a grandparent outrun their grandkids”) and has earned media coverage in NatGeo, CES spotlights, and AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative.
- **Focus on the “missing middle”**: Addresses a large underserved market (billions with age‑related or mild mobility issues) that is ignored by both medical exoskeletons and fitness trackers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale manufacturing and distribution**: Moving from prototype/limited runs to broader consumer availability for MO/GO.
- **Build a world‑class engineering team**: Actively hiring firmware, test, and marketing leads to expand the 16‑person team.
- **Clinical validation & partnerships**: Continued publication of studies (e.g., Parkinson’s) and collaboration with organizations like the Michael J. Fox Foundation to establish credibility and open healthcare channels.
- **Expand product line**: Use the Movewear platform to create models for different activities and levels of support.

## Why Work Here
- **High‑impact, mission‑driven work**: Engineers directly improve physical mobility for millions of people.
- **Small, high‑density team**: 16 employees with a strong ratio of technical staff (9 in technical roles). Offers the chance to own large areas of the stack.
- **Culture rooted in moonshot thinking**: Spun out of Google X; employees have backgrounds from X, Harvard, Stanford, and top robotics firms.
- **Hybrid/Office presence**: HQ in San Francisco, California. Recent job posts specify location in San Francisco Bay Area, suggesting an on‑site or hybrid expectation.
- **Perks and environment**: Working on a tangible hardware + software product that users wear and love. The team is described as passionate about movement, joy, and inclusion — events like SF Design Week “Build Your Superpowers” highlight a fun, community‑focused culture.

## Sources
1. [Skip Official Website – About](https://www.skipwithjoy.com/aboutus)
2. [Skip Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/skip) (via LinkedIn)
3. [Skip LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/skipwithjoy)
4. [Skip on DayOne.fm](https://dayone.fm/company/skip)
5. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/skip/__d5pUuD-03STihX3ls-azp7_yxK90CKdZqKMe_5V_ybk)

## Other roles at Skip

- [Robotics Generalist](https://feeny.ai/job/robotics-generalist-skip-san-francisco-mka6tcw6vngj) — San Francisco, CA
- [Exoskeleton Controls Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/exoskeleton-controls-engineer-skip-san-francisco-ppsk0ft80g0t) — San Francisco, CA
- [Finance Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/finance-engineer-skip-san-francisco-xcnpxn43gvwt) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechatronics Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/mechatronics-engineer-skip-san-francisco-80d852ebvjw8) — San Francisco, CA
- [Product Design Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/product-design-engineer-skip-san-francisco-d71sxvygsjpw) — San Francisco, CA
- [Infrastructure Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/infrastructure-security-engineer-skip-san-francisco-1d6cdah3rt7p) — San Francisco, CA
- [Soft Goods Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/soft-goods-designer-skip-san-francisco-qcx70wj6zktz) — San Francisco, CA
- [Engineering Program Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-program-manager-skip-san-francisco-d9rg5b0atbfx) — San Francisco, CA
- [Motor Control Firmware Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/motor-control-firmware-engineer-skip-san-francisco-pqx6mmtwvkyw) — San Francisco, CA