Executive Assistant

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 5,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Reddit, Stripe, and OpenAI. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

Job Description

Y Combinator is looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to work directly with one or two of our General Partners. You’ll be responsible for helping manage their calendar, organizing events, and using internal YC software to manage communications with our founders and portfolio companies. 

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who’s comfortable working independently based out of our San Francisco headquarters. This is an amazing opportunity if you’re curious about startups and enjoy learning about how they get started, and would find it interesting to meet the kinds of people who start them.

This is a full-time (exempt) position. Candidates must live in the SF Bay Area and be available to work onsite at our offices located at Pier 70, San Francisco. Evening and occasional weekend work is required. 

This is also a unique opportunity to get many of the perks of working for a successful company – competitive salary and excellent benefits, including fully paid health care benefits and a flexible paid time off policy – while working on a small, fast-moving, and high-impact team.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Administrative tasks, including scheduling and calendar management. You’ll help schedule internal and external meetings, preventing conflicts and helping our General Partner use his time efficiently. 

• Plan, execute, and attend events. You’ll partner with your General Partners(s) on curating special experiences for our founders. You'll be responsible for helping with the logistics of events organized at the YC office and other locations, ranging from 10 people to 200 people. You must be available to work some evenings and occasionally on weekends. That said, hours are flexible to accommodate time spent outside of standard office hours.

• Coordinating travel, and generally able to process ad hoc tasks expeditiously and proactively, including some personal to-dos. 

• Work cross-functionally with other YC team members as needed. 

• Writing projects as needed. 

Skills & Experience:

• You have at least 5 years of experience as an Executive Assistant or working in an operations/support position.

• Comfortable supporting high-level executives and working with other executives with different leadership styles. 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Evidence of strong writing ability will be valued especially highly.  

• Strong organizational, project management, problem-solving skills, and multitasking abilities.

• Friendly demeanor. 

• Bonus points: You are familiar with startups.

Every employee at YC has a lot of individual responsibility and access to sensitive information, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is particularly important to us.

Location: YC is headquartered in the SF Bay Area. Candidates must live in the SF Bay Area or be willing to relocate. Our Executive Assistants must be comfortable working from our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch at least 3 days per week. 

Compensation: $180,000 to $215,000 annual salary. 

Benefits: Our full benefits package includes medical, vision, and dental plans, infertility benefit, STD/LTD, life insurance, commuter benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, 401(k) + 4% matching, generous parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible paid time off policy.

Work Authorization: This position does not support work authorization/visa sponsorship. 

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