Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.
We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.
Job: You will run the operating rhythm for one of Parallel's founders — owning their calendar, travel, and inbox not as scheduling but as a filter for where their time and attention go. You'll sit in the room for high-stakes meetings, track follow-ups across sales, hiring, and product, and make sure nothing the founder commits to falls through. You'll draft communications, prep board and investor materials, and represent the founder's priorities to the rest of the company when they're not in the room. As Parallel scales, you'll build the systems — meeting cadences, decision logs, follow-up tracking — that let one founder operate like ten.
You: You've operated at the right hand of an executive before — as an EA, chief of staff, or founder's associate — and you know the difference between managing a calendar and managing an executive's leverage. You anticipate problems before they're escalated to you, and you've got the judgment to know what needs the founder's attention today versus what can wait a week. You write clearly, you're airtight on details, and you don't need everything spelled out to know what "good" looks like. You want to be inside the decisions that shape an early-stage company, not adjacent to them. You are, quite honestly, a superhero...
Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.
We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:
Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.
Competitive salary
Generous equity
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
Daily lunch & office snacks
Dinner at the office
Unlimited vacation
Caltrain pass reimbursement
Skills Required
- Prior experience supporting a founder or executive (EA, chief of staff, or founder's associate)
- Manage executive calendar, travel logistics, and inbox as a lever for time and priorities
- Track and drive follow-ups across sales, hiring, product, and other cross-functional areas
- Draft clear written communications and prepare board and investor materials
- Strong judgment and ability to prioritize what requires founder attention now versus later
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational rigor
- Ability to build and maintain operational systems: meeting cadences, decision logs, follow-up tracking
- Comfortable participating in high-stakes meetings and representing the founder's priorities to the company
- Work fully in-person at Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office (Bay Area-based or willing to commute)
Parallel Web Systems Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parallel Web Systems and has not been reviewed or approved by Parallel Web Systems.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is prominently advertised as “generous” across roles, paired with competitive base pay. A reported ML Engineer package including substantial stock indicates equity is a meaningful component.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily lunch, snacks, and dinner are provided, with Caltrain pass reimbursement supporting commuters. In‑person offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco enable these onsite perks.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is explicitly listed on multiple job postings. This establishes a baseline layer of retirement support alongside cash and equity.
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What We Do
At Parallel Web Systems, we are bringing a new web to life: it’s built with, by, and for AIs. Our work spans innovations across crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and reasoning systems. Our first product is a set of API for AIs to do more with web data.
