Executive Assistant to the CEO

We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.

When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.

Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.

If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?

Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.

So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

What you'll do

• Shadow the CEO and drive follow-through. This role requires five (5) days in-office presence. Attend as many of the CEO's meetings as possible. Capture decisions and action items, especially those delegated to direct reports, and own the follow-up loop: track commitments, chase them down, and report back on status without being asked. You are the reason things don't slip.

• Defend the calendar. Ruthlessly protect the CEO's time. Triage inbound meeting requests, say no gracefully on his behalf, batch and structure the week for focus, and coordinate complex scheduling across large groups: executives, board members, investors, and external partners across time zones.

• Build presentations. Help create slide decks and other materials for board meetings, all-hands, investor updates, and external talks. You should be able to take rough notes or a verbal outline and turn it into something clear and polished.

• Handle sensitive information with discretion. You will have access to significant private information (financial, strategic, personnel, and legal) that must not be shared externally, and in many cases not internally either. Confidentiality is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have.

• Prep the CEO for meetings. Before important meetings, put together a short briefing: who he's meeting, relevant history and context, and what we want out of the conversation. The goal is that the CEO never walks into a room cold.

• General leverage. Draft communications, take on special projects, and generally remove friction from the CEO's day.

Who you are

• Type A: extremely organized and detail-oriented. You keep a system of record and nothing gets lost in it

• Comfortable following up persistently (and politely) with senior people until things are done

• A strong writer and competent with slides (Google Slides, Keynote, or PowerPoint)

• High EQ and good judgment: you can read a room, know what's confidential, and represent the CEO well

• Proactive: you anticipate needs instead of waiting for instructions

• Thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment; unflappable when priorities shift

• Available in person in San Francisco, with flexibility for occasional early mornings, evenings, or travel

Nice to have

• Prior experience supporting a founder, CEO, or senior executive

• Experience at a startup or other high-growth environment

• Experience and familiarity with AI tools such as Claude

• Familiarity with tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, and Linear

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

We cover lunch daily for employees

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.