Executive Assistant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee email and correspondence, prioritize tasks, draft replies, and ensure follow-up actions are taken.

• Take charge of scheduling and calendar management, foresee potential conflicts, and safeguard the founder’s essential time.

• Monitor commitments, deadlines, and pending tasks to ensure nothing is overlooked.

• Actively follow up to ensure critical items do not fall through the cracks.

• Conduct research, coordinate stakeholders and logistics, and address ongoing or intricate issues.

• Understand the context of the work to anticipate needs, make informed decisions, and take greater initiative.

• Assist the founder of Y-Trap, a biotech startup focused on developing multi-specific cancer immunotherapy therapeutics and advancing key programs into clinical trials.

⛳️ Requirements

• Outstanding resourcefulness and determination in addressing significant challenges.

• Strong judgment and discretion when managing sensitive information and communications.

• Detail-oriented, dependable, and capable of keeping accurate records while tracking priorities and deadlines.

• Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Comfortable asking questions and navigating unfamiliar scientific, business, or logistical details.

• Experience in biotech is not mandatory.

• Ideally, experience in coordinating legal or intellectual property matters, including collaboration with external counsel.

• Ideally, background in biotech or life sciences, or experience supporting technically complex teams.

• Ideally, experience assisting a founder or senior executive in a dynamic startup environment.

• Ideally, interest in utilizing AI tools for enhanced efficiency.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Hybrid or remote work options available.

• Preference for occasional in-person meetings.

• Opportunity to collaborate closely with the founder of a biotech startup.

• Chance to learn and apply AI tools to enhance efficiency.