Cartesia Executive Business Partner at Cartesia supports four co-founders by managing complex calendars and building operational systems. The role involves high autonomy, judgment, and driving ambiguous problems to completion.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly motivated Executive Business Partner to support our four co-founders.
You'll sit at the center of how the founders work - managing complex calendars and logistics, but also creating structure around planning, communication, and follow-through. You'll work closely with leaders across the company and have a unique view into how the business operates.
This is not a traditional EA role. The job includes administrative work, but the bigger opportunity is the judgment you bring and the systems you build. You'll often be handed an ambiguous problem rather than a clear brief and expected to figure out what needs to happen, bring the right people together, and drive it through to completion.
You should be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, knowing when to take something off a founder's plate, when to push for clarity, and when to bring an issue back to the founders or leadership team.
This is a fully in-person role based in our San Francisco office.
Executive Support & Prioritization
Manage complex, rapidly evolving calendars across four founders, prioritizing competing requests with sound judgment and protecting time for high-value work
Anticipate needs, prepare founders fully for meetings, and make thoughtful tradeoffs instead of accommodating every request
Handle confidential information and sensitive situations with maturity and discretion
Own travel planning, itineraries, and expenses
Provide limited personal support to founders as needed
Operations & Execution
Qualification
High agencyNote🏢 In-office policy🌎 Visa sponsorship🚢 We ship fast🤝 We support each other
Required
5 to 8 years of experience in executive support, executive operations, or a similar role supporting senior executives at a fast-moving, high-growth company
High agency; you create structure where none exists and solve problems without a fully defined playbook
Comfortable managing and diplomatically pushing back on strong personalities, competing priorities, and changing plans
Able to coach executives on how to work effectively with an executive partner
Equally strong at tactical support (calendars, travel) and higher-leverage work (planning, operating rhythms)
Excellent judgment about what to own directly, when to push, and when to bring something to a founder or the leadership team
Strong writer and communicator who can get a room aligned
Discretion and maturity when handling sensitive information
Preferred
Note: Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.
🏢 In-office policy: We’re an in-person team based out of offices in 🇺🇸 San Francisco, 🇬🇧 London and 🇮🇳 Bangalore. We love being in the office, hanging out together, and learning from each other every day.
🌎 Visa sponsorship: We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis. However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can't always guarantee success. Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.
🚢 We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality or design along the way.
🤝 We support each other. We have an open & inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.
