Executive Assistant, BioRender
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Scientific diagram creator
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Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- 3–6 years of experience in an Executive Assistant or executive operations role, ideally in a fast-paced or startup environment
- A "no task too small or too big" mindset: you're equally comfortable with the details and with driving bigger initiatives
- First principles thinker: you don't just execute tasks, you understand the "why" behind the work in order to make good decisions in the face of ambiguity
- AI-fluent: you naturally reach for AI tools to find new ways to move faster and work smarter
- Organized, proactive, and emotionally intelligent: you anticipate what's next, exercise sound judgment, and thrive in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Executive Assistant to partner directly with Ryan, one of our Co-Founders. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll be a trusted partner, helping him stay focused on what matters most while ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
- Ryan moves fast across a wide range of priorities: you'll help bring structure, manage tradeoffs, and ensure consistent follow-through
- This isn't a traditional EA role. You'll have a front-row seat to how a fast-growing company is built, with real visibility into strategy, a close relationship with senior leadership, and genuine influence over how Ryan operates at his best
- Act as a trusted partner to Ryan: proactively manage his complex calendar and priorities, and be someone he can confidently delegate to knowing things will get done
- Keep Ryan accountable to his commitments: flagging when the plate is too full and pushing back when tradeoffs need to happen
- Own the full scope of EA support: travel, expenses, meeting prep, inbox triage, and the day-to-day admin
- Track action items and key initiatives across leadership meetings
- Be a trusted, credible presence across the team: coordinate and support cross-functional projects, keep the right people aligned, and drive things forward on Ryan's priorities without always needing to pull him in
- Proactively identify opportunities to streamline operations, improve workflows, and introduce new tools or systems
- Leverage tools (including AI) to increase efficiency in how you and your executive operate
Our take
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
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Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jul 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $17.4m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
- Flexible Time Off: Our "Flexible Vacation" policy gives you the flexibility to take time off when you need it, so you can unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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