Job Details

Role: Executive Business Partner to CTO

Location: San Francisco (Dogpatch)

Schedule: 5 days onsite

Compensation: $180 - 240k Base + Bonus + Equity + Generous Perks!

About the Role

A highly successful AI company is seeking an exceptional Executive Business Partner to serve as a true extension of the CTO in a high-velocity, high-stakes environment. This is not a traditional executive assistant role—this is a strategic operator who thinks, acts, and prioritizes alongside the CTO. You will own how the CTO's time, energy, and attention are deployed across the company, ensuring maximum impact during a critical phase with two upcoming product launches. This role is ideal for someone who thrives under pressure, loves solving complex problems, and operates with urgency and precision.

What You'll Do

Strategic Partnership

• Act as a proxy for the CTO in internal and cross-functional discussions
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, and leadership teams
• Anticipate needs, identify bottlenecks, and proactively remove obstacles
• Own and optimize the CTO's time—ensuring focus on highest-impact priorities
• Lead critical initiatives and special projects end-to-end
• Collaborate deeply with internal teams to maintain speed and execution quality
• Lead the CTO's external presence and thought leadership, including building relationships with industry leaders, managing executive communications, etc.

Operational Excellence

• Manage and optimize a highly dynamic calendar with precision
• Strategically schedule deep work blocks
• Coordinate across time zones and late-night engineering schedules, especially during launches
• Ensure rapid response times

What You Bring

• 5+ years in a fast-paced startup environment supporting a C-level leader
• Strong technical acumen; ability to engage with engineering concepts and workflows
• Proven experience operating in fast-paced, high-performance environments
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with a bias toward action
• Ability to think several steps ahead and make decisions independently
• High ownership mentality—nothing falls through the cracks
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to operate with a 24/7 mindset
• Availability for 10–20% travel