Provide dual support to the VP of Communications and the Director, Head of People, managing complex priorities and ensuring seamless execution for both executives.
Executive Assistant
📜 Description
- Manage complex, multi-executive schedules and prioritize time effectively.
- Prepare briefing notes, meeting agendas, and follow up on action items.
- Organize domestic and international travel, including itineraries and expense reporting.
- Handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
- Support strategic projects and serve as a liaison between executives and stakeholders.
- Complete expense reports and assist with additional administrative tasks as needed.
🛠️ Requirements
- Background in a fast-paced environment — finance, technology, AI, or startups preferred
- Clear, upfront communicator — comfortable navigating ambiguity with confidence and composure
- Meticulous attention to detail, especially across scheduling and travel; able to prioritize effectively in high-pressure environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; professional and warm in every context
- Strong interpersonal relationships — a natural relationship-builder who earns trust quickly across all levels of an organization
- Tech-savvy and comfortable with modern productivity tools
- Familiarity with AI tools or workflow automation — able to help build and maintain systems that reduce manual lift
Full job description
About Us:
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
We are looking for a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Executive Assistant to support our senior leadership team. This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role for someone who operates with discretion, moves fast, and takes genuine ownership of keeping leadership effective and well-prepared. The ideal candidate is not just an organizer — they're a thoughtful partner and a trusted confidant. You'll be the connective tissue between our executives and the world around them, bringing sound judgment and a calm, professional presence to everything you do. This is fully in-office role based in San Mateo where you will support multiple executives.
Main Responsibilities
Calendar & Schedule Management: Manage complex, multi-executive schedules. Strategically prioritize and protect time in alignment with business objectives.
Meeting Support: Ensure executives begin each day fully prepared: briefing notes, meeting context, open action items, and anything they need to walk in sharp. Prepare agendas and follow up on action items as needed.
Travel Coordination: Organize domestic and international travel end-to-end: flights, accommodation, ground transport, detailed itineraries, and expense reporting.
Confidential Support: Manage sensitive and confidential information with the utmost discretion and integrity.
Project Management: Support strategic projects, internal initiatives, and ad hoc research tasks. Able to pick up a thread and run with it independently.
Liaison Role: Serve as the primary point of contact between executives and internal/external stakeholders. Build relationships and stay attuned to what's happening on the ground.
Additional Administrative Support: Complete expense reports, handle personal tasks as needed, and support other executives as needed.
Additional Administrative Support: Complete expense reports, reconcile corporate card, organize team meetings, offsites, all-hands logistics, interview and onboarding coordination. May support other executives as needed.
Preferred Attributes
Background in a fast-paced environment — finance, technology, AI, or startups preferred
Clear, upfront communicator — comfortable navigating ambiguity with confidence and composure
Meticulous attention to detail, especially across scheduling and travel; able to prioritize effectively in high-pressure environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills; professional and warm in every context
Strong interpersonal relationships — a natural relationship-builder who earns trust quickly across all levels of an organization
Good judgment — knows when to act independently and when to loop in
Tech-savvy and comfortable with modern productivity tools
Familiarity with AI tools or workflow automation — able to help build and maintain systems that reduce manual lift
Why Fireworks?
Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.
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