Executive Assistant to CEO/ Office Manager

Job Description

Tessian We believe technology should secure the digital interactions of employees without compromising user experience or productivity. That’s why we’re building the world’s first Human Layer Security platform. We’re a team of mathematicians, data scientists & engineers building breakthrough machine learning and natural language technologies to analyse, understand & protect enterprise email networks. Tessian is backed by leading technology investors Sequoia Capital and Accel who have helped build many industry defining companies including Stripe, Slack, Crowdstrike and Dropbox. We'd love to hear from you. At the heart of our organization are the people that support our core functions and empower others. They make everything happen seamlessly. With our expansion in the US, we need an experienced executive assistant (and office manager once we go back to the office) to join our team. This is a role in which you will handle day-to-day administration for the CEO & CTO and keep the San Francisco office running like magic. You will report into our Chief of Staff. If you have a passion for organization, details and fast-paced, dynamic environments, please apply! We’d love to hear from you.

What the job will look like:

• 70% of time work on managing calendar, scheduling, a handful of meetings a day for two busy execs (one based in SF and the other in London). This includes coordinating a variety of meetings, generally with founders, senior executives and outside investors, and also generating daily to-do lists from 100+ emails and prioritizing them.
• 30% of time managing our office in San Francisco, including: ensuring we have tons of delicious snacks, being savvy about where we spend money as it relates to our office, building relationships with (& being part of the team meetings of) the people and operations team in London (as you'll sit between the CEO Office & Operations teams), planning fun team socials other office & ops work as it comes up

We'd love to meet someone who:

• Has work with senior executives before in a similar type of role & start-up environment
• Will just jump in and run the above
• Has very strong organisational skills (you love lists!)
• Has effective, sensitive and professional communication skills -- you will often be communicating with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Is resilient and adaptable -- no day will be the same and we need to be able to rely on you
• Has good judgment

Why we think you'll love it here:

• You’ll work alongside amazing, high-performing colleague, and have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of starting up a new office of a fast-growth, Sequoia-&-Accel-backed technology company
• Great startup culture
• We offer a competitive salary and equity options with every role, with annual salary reviews
• Everyone gets 25 days of paid holiday leave a year (15 days of paid vacation plus 10 paid federal holiday days)
• Flexible working hours and work from home policies including flexibility for parents and caregivers
• We offer three tiers of plans, with the lowest tier of Aetna health insurance 100% paid for by Tessian (no employee contribution required), with a $0 in-network deductible.
• 401K Company Match: 100% of first 1% and 50% of next 5%
• You’ll get a high quality MacOS tech kit to work on including laptop, phone and peripheral accessories
• One week of remote working from abroad per year
• Monthly fitness subsidy of $60 towards ClassPass
• Work from home subsidy to cover all of your office must-haves

Equality & diversity Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we're securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here . As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we're also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM & we're a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups. Important notices Please note that we do not accept applications or résumés from recruiters. Any unsolicited CVs, profiles, or names, submitted in any format, by any channel, to any of our team, will be deemed to fall outside any terms and/or conditions with either the person submitting the information or their company of employment/representation. By submitting your application to Tessian, you consent to Tessian retaining your information and contacting you about future job opportunities, that may be of interest, for up to 2 years in accordance with our Privacy Policy Please note, that any job offers will be subject to the candidate passing background screening checks. Apply for this job