Executive Assistant to the CTO, BioRender
Scientific diagram creator
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Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5 years + of experience as an Executive Assistant or Executive Operations partner supporting senior leaders in a fast-paced B2B SaaS, technology, or startup environment
- Experience supporting a CTO or senior Engineering, Product, or Design (EPD) executive is strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree required; a technical degree (Engineering, Computer Science, STEM, or related field) or previous experience supporting technical organizations is preferred
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, anticipate needs, and execute with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong judgment, emotional intelligence, and the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization
- A proven ability to manage your own workload across multiple concurrent priorities, take initiative, and solve problems independently in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable using Google Workspace, Slack, AI-powered productivity tools, and modern collaboration software to improve efficiency and effectiveness
What the job involves
- As the Executive Assistant to our Chief Technology Officer, you’ll be a trusted partner who helps maximize the impact of BioRender’s EPD organization
- You’ll own the operational rhythm behind the CTO’s day-to-day work - keeping priorities on track, driving follow-through across key initiatives, and ensuring our CTO can focus on building products that accelerate scientific discovery
- You’ll work closely with leaders across the company as you anticipate needs, remove roadblocks, and continuously improve how the Engineering, Product, and Design organization operates. This is a unique opportunity to partner with one of BioRender’s executive leaders and help shape how a fast-growing, product-led SaaS company scales
- Partner with the CTO to manage complex calendars, travel, meeting logistics, and competing priorities, ensuring time is focused on the highest-impact work
- Own meeting preparation end to end by coordinating agendas, preparing materials, capturing notes, tracking action items, and driving follow-through across key initiatives
- Partner cross-functionally to coordinate projects, quarterly planning, leadership meetings, and strategic company initiatives
- Plan and execute leadership off sites, team events, and organization-wide meetings that foster collaboration and strengthen the organization
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve executive workflows, streamline operational processes, and introduce AI tools or automation that increase efficiency across the team
- Build trusted relationships across the organization while handling sensitive information with professionalism, sound judgment, and discretion
- Take on high-impact operational projects as they arise; we're a fast-growing company, and you'll help wherever your partnership creates the greatest leverage
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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