Contractor, Executive Assistant, Menlo Park
Contractor, Executive Assistant, Menlo Park
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Job Description
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growthstage technology companies across AI bio healthcare consumer crypto enterprise fintech games and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $45B in assets under management across multiple funds.
Weve established ateam that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the companybuilding process; we know what its like to be in the founders shoes. Weve invested in companies like Anduril Cedar Coinbase Databricks Figma Fivetran Flock Safety Loom Roblox and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
The Executive Assistant will work closely with toplevel Executives. This is an opportunity to work alongside individuals who are driven by excellence and a passion for technology. The ideal candidate is a team player with exceptional communication skills meticulous attention to detail and creative problemsolving skills. This role supports General Partners and requires the ability to juggle competing responsibilities while prioritizing. Daily responsibilities include calendar management coordinating meetings travel and logistics and prioritizing across multiple leaders. We are looking for someone with strong experience working with executive teams in fastpaced environments and the ability to handle sensitive information with excellent judgment diplomacy and discretion.
The preferred location for this role is San Francisco Bay Area CA. The role requires an inoffice presence in our Menlo Park CA office on Mondays and San Francisco CA office 12 Thursdays per month.
To join our team you should be excited to:
- Build and cultivate longterm relationships
- Handle highly confidential information and documents with discretion and confidentiality
- Manage and maintain multiple executive calendars including recurring meetings prioritizing appropriately and using good judgment in offering solutions to complex scheduling and meeting planning needs
- Meetings will include Board meetings Executive offsites and ongoing staff meetings. This includes but is not limited to attendee communications catering and program material preparation
- Proactively manage communication and respond to urgent inquiries from internal / external stakeholders on the executives behalf
- Process and track expenses in a timely manner for the executives
- Operate with exceptional attention to detail. Anticipate potential changes or shifts in priorities amidst simultaneous demands for attention
- Provide overall data management to executives. Inclusive of:
- Organize and compile to facilitate exec presentations
- Track and drive completion of key deliverables proactively following up on outstanding items as needed
- Provide innovative and creative methods for continued improvements to administrative processes as the company scales
Minimum Requirements
- 5 years of high level experience supporting multiple senior level executives
- A strong team player who thrives in a collaborative setting and works well within a matrixed environment poised and able to work with individuals at all levels of the organization
- Proactive positive and personable with excellent communication skills and an upbeat can do attitude willing to take initiative with confidence
- Resilient with ability to manage multiple projects and deliver quality work to deadlines
- Discretion diplomacy and excellent judgment; high degree of integrity when dealing with confidential and sensitive information
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong calendar management and prioritization skills
- Advanced proficiency with Gmail Google Calendar as well as key applications such as Word Excel Powerpoint and Zoom
- You are comfortable working in a semiremote environment and working independently
- Low ego high empathy and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams
The anticipated hourly rate for this role is $50.00 $55.00 actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience skills and scope
a16z culture
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different we recognize that and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity age marital or family status disability Veteran status and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves our portfolio companies and the World.
Our organization participates in EVerify. Click here to learn about EVerify.
Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.
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