This is a careerdefining opportunity to act as the strategic righthand and Executive Assistant to our Founder and CEO, Joris Poort. This role is not only about administrative support; its about leverage and impact. You will be the force multiplier who ensures the CEOs time, focus, and energy are optimized to drive Rescales vision forward.
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Executive Leverage & Time Allocation
Maximize CEO leverage: Own time, priorities, and followthrough across the CEO’s agenda. Own the CEO’s calendar as a capital allocation problem—design weeks for highest ROI; create focus blocks; preread gates; hard tradeoffs.
Meeting management: Prep, brief, and debrief the CEO for key meetings; drive prework, set decision frames, capture actions, ensure followthrough.
Comms management: Manage communications triage (emailSlackText) with clear SLAs and judgment about what must reach the CEO.
Operate with urgency: Be highly reliable and available, including after hours, and during travel time zones or other critical periods.
Exercise impeccable judgment: Handle highly sensitive information with absolute discretion.
Bias to action: Roll up sleeves—no task too big or small; own outcomes endtoend.
Own the calendar: Manage a dynamic, highvolume schedule; screen requests, set priorities, and resolve conflicts proactively.
Run meetings & travel: Coordinate domesticinternational meetings and endtoend travel (time zones, visas, itineraries, briefing packs, comms).
Handle complex admin: Deliver diverse, confidential work with tact, initiative, and anticipation.
Deliver at pace: Ship a high volume of work with minimal guidance; respond rapidly to timecritical issues.
Executive Operating System
Drive operational excellence: Partner with senior leadership to design and run the executive operating cadence that increases throughput.
Build and run the cadence for staff meetings, weekly exec reviews, quarterly OKR checkpoints, and offsites.
Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and “single source of truth” in a wellmanaged up to date collaboration doc system.
Implement automations and AI agents (e.g., GPT + Zapier) for recurring workflows (agenda packs, trip briefs, followups).
Board, Investor, and Special Events
Own logistics for board meetings and corporate events; coordinate materials and securetime distribution; manage captable sensitive workflows in close partnership with LegalFinance.
Partner with CommsIR on investor and strategic partner interactions.
Customers & External
Orchestrate CEO involvement in top accounts and strategic partners; ensure briefs, goals, and followups convert to pipeline or product signal.
Support external speaking and PR engagements in close partnership with Marketing leadership.
Personal Support
Manage personal calendar intersections and select personal admin so the CEO’s professional commitments are uninterrupted.
Assist with personal tasks to ensure the CEO’s personal life runs as smoothly as their professional one.
5+ years directly supporting a Clevel executive (founderCEO preferred) in a highgrowth tech company.
Track record running a complex, fastchanging calendar and communications stack with excellent judgment and confidentiality.
Strong operator: you’ve built lightweight systemscadences that improved executive and team throughput.
Fluency with Google Workspace and modern collaboration tools (Slack, etc), plus automation (Zapier, etc) and AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc); willingness to own implementation.
Comfortable working with urgency and afterhours needs aligned to CEO schedule, travel and critical events.
Experience partnering on board meetings, investor interactions, or enterprise customer exec engagements.
Curiosity about technology, science, or engineering; ability to parse technical briefs and extract what matters.
A Systems Thinker: You dont just complete tasks; you build scalable processes and systems to improve efficiency for the entire executive office.
Intellectually Curious: You are genuinely interested in what Rescale does and are driven to understand our business, our customers, and our market.
Owners Mentality: You take immense pride in your work and demonstrate a high degree of ownership and accountability. You treat the CEOs priorities as your own.
Exceptional Judgment & Integrity: You consistently demonstrate sound judgment, especially when navigating complex situations with limited information. You are the vault and handle confidential information with absolute discretion.
Proactive & Resourceful: You are a forwardthinker who anticipates needs and solves problems before they arise. You have a figure it out mentality.
High Emotional Intelligence: You build strong, trustbased relationships and interact with people at all levels with diplomacy, professionalism, and grace.
Unflappable & Poised: You maintain a calm and positive demeanor in a fastpaced, highpressure environment. You are resilient, adaptable, and thrive on challenges.
Google Workspace, Slack, Zapier, ChatGPTGemini, etc. You’ll recommend and implement better nextgen AIbased tools where it helps.
This role supports a global CEO schedule. Expect core overlap with Pacific Time and high responsiveness is expected during all hours including evenings and weekends. Core schedule may shift to earlylate windows during travel weeks or critical events. We understand that this role can be demanding at times and are prepared to offer appropriate compensation that will match the time, energy, and effort needed to be successful.
Rescale is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religionbelief, sexual orientation or age. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Rescale will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check. Here at Rescale, we are committed to being transparent in our policies around candidate privacy. For more details on the information Rescale collects in your application, please view the Rescale Applicant Privacy Policy here.
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