Executive Personal Assistant to the Founder & CEO
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About Turing
Based in San Francisco California Turing is the worlds leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data specialized talent and training pipelines that advance thinking reasoning coding multimodality and STEM. For enterprises Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows unlock transformative outcomes and drive lasting competitive advantage.
Recognized by Forbes The Information and Fast Company among the worlds top innovators Turings leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta Google Microsoft Apple Amazon McKinsey Bain Stanford Caltech and MIT. Learn more at
About the Team
The Office of the CEO operates at the center of Turings highest-priority strategic initiatives. We partner across executive leadership while representing the company externally with investors frontier AI labs enterprise customers board members strategic partners and industry leaders.
This team exists to create leverage for the Founder & CEO where the companys most important decisions are made.
The Role
Behind every founder operating at full speed is someone who helps turn motion into momentum.
As Executive Personal Assistant to the Founder & CEO you will provide integrated executive and personal support designed to keep him operating at his highest level. Your mandate is to anticipate what he will need remove friction before it reaches him and return his time and attention to the work that creates the greatest business impact.
This is a high-trust hands-on execution rolenot an advisory or strategy position. You will move seamlessly between consequential business priorities personal logistics and select family-office needs approaching each with discretion urgency resourcefulness and care.
The Founder & CEO leads with a calm measured and respectful demeanor while managing an exceptionally demanding schedule at a start-up speed. He holds himself and those around him to the highest standards. The right person will keep pace have an AI-forward approach anticipate needs without waiting for direction and remain grounded and effective as priorities change.
Why This Role Matters
For an exceptional personal assistant this is a career-defining opportunity to work alongside a leader pioneering the frontier of AI. You will operate with significant trust and responsibility helping create the conditions that allow the Founder & CEO to focus make decisions maintain critical relationships and lead effectively.
This is a performance role firstan opportunity to earn trust expand your capabilities and create meaningful leverage through exceptional execution.
What You Will Own
- Protect the Founder & CEOs Time and Priorities. Manage a complex frequently changing calendar with precision and business judgment. Evaluate competing demands preserve time for the highest-impact work and keep the day organized as circumstances are fast-evolved.
- Deliver Integrated Executive Personal and Family-Office Support. Own appointments reservations expenses purchases gifting special requests and household-related coordination. Work effectively with advisors vendors service providers and internal partners to remove demands that would otherwise require the Founder & CEOs time.
- Anticipate Needs and Turn Obstacles Into Solutions. See around corners identify potential obstacles and act before they create unnecessary demands. Treat an initial no as the beginning of the problem-solving process finding thoughtful alternatives that achieve the best outcome while protecting relationships confidentiality and sound judgment.
- Execute Complex Domestic and International Travel. Plan flights accommodations transportation documentation itineraries and special requirements across multiple time zones. Travel with the Founder & CEO when needed provide real-time logistical support and resolve last-minute changes calmly and resourcefully.
- Build Reliable Systems Around the Details. Maintain organized systems for confidential files contacts expenses invoices important documents appointments renewals and recurring professional and personal responsibilities.
- Create Coordination Across the Office of the CEO. Partner closely with the Chief of Staff to the CEO Head of People and broader administrative and leadership teams to maintain clear ownership and continuity across professional and personal priorities.
Who You Are
- Service-minded and hands-on. You take pride in making life more organized and less stressful. No task is beneath you when it contributes to a better outcome.
- Constructively relentless. Obstacles are never the end of the path. You ask better questions identify alternatives engage the right people and persist until you reach the strongest workable solution.
- Resourceful and polished. You operate confidently with senior and high-profile stakeholders while remaining humble enough to manage the smallest details.
- Proactive and highly organized. You anticipate what is needed maintain command of competing priorities and follow through without repeated reminders.
- Calm under pressure. You remain composed and solution-oriented when schedules shift travel changes or urgent demands collide.
- Quietly excellent. You are motivated less by recognition than by trust earned through consistently strong judgment discretion reliability and execution.
- Confident in your judgment. You know when to act independently when to escalate and when respectful pushback or an alternative solution will lead to a better result.
- Discreet by default. You handle highly confidential business and personal information with maturity professionalism and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3 years of high-trust support experience with a founder CEO senior executive high-profile individual or similarly demanding principal including 2 years in a blended executive and personal assistant role.
- Demonstrated success managing complex calendars competing demands executive communications personal coordination and rapidly shifting priorities.
- Experience managing complex multi-leg domestic and international travel including accompanying an executive when required.
- Exceptional organizational and project-management skills with strong attention to detail across executive-level matters and hands-on personal requests.
- Strong business judgment discretion and the ability to assess urgency make thoughtful tradeoffs and act with minimal direction.
- Polished written and verbal communication skills emotional intelligence and the ability to build trust with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work out of the San Francisco & Palo Alto office 5 days per week support irregular hours when necessary and travel domestically and internationally based on business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7 years of experience supporting a founder CEO senior executive entrepreneur high-profile individual or private office.
- Experience supporting a principal in technology finance luxury hospitality travel a family or private office or another high-intensity environment.
- Experience coordinating executive and personal priorities across household staff vendors service providers and external stakeholders.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.
Before You Apply
This role operates at the pace of the Founder & CEO. Business and personal demands will not always occur during standard working hours and travel or other priorities may change with little notice.
This is not a traditional 9-to-5 position. It requires flexibility discretion and hands-on ownership across executive and personal support. If you are seeking a predictable schedule or a role limited to conventional administrative responsibilities this may not be the right opportunity.
Location & Work Model
- Full-time in-office role with time in both our Palo Alto and San Francisco offices and the flexibility to support the CEO wherever business requires.
- Flexibility to support priorities outside standard working hours when necessary
- Potential domestic and international travel based on business needs
Compensation & Benefits
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $180000$200000 USD. In addition to base salary this role is eligible for equity and benefits.
Individual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications and other relevant business considerations.
Application Process
Please submit:
- Resume
- Professional references from a founder CEO senior executive or high-profile individual you have directly supported
Our interview process typically includes:
- Introductory conversation
- Team & Executive interview
- Working session
- Reference checks
- Offer
Equal Opportunity
Turing is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We celebrate diverse backgrounds perspectives and experiences and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Values
We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.
Advantages of joining Turing
Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta Google LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
Competitive compensation
Flexible working hours
Dont meet every single requirementStudies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation age marital status disability protected veteran status or any other legally protected Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplaceand celebrate authenticity so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union please reviewTurings GDPR notice here.
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About Company
Build GenAI and other enterprise applications, train and enhance LLMs, or hire on-demand technical professionals with Turing.