Workplace and Administrative Manager, Arena
$70-100k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
Open for applications
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$70-100k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses across industries to make high frequency, critical path decisions fully autonomous.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience as an office manager, administrative assistant, or in an operations-focused role
- Exceptional organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of office software tools (e.g. Google Workspace, Envoy)
- Strong professional communication skills
- The ability to be present in the office five days a week
What the job involves
- We’re seeking an organized, dynamic, and solutions-oriented Workplace Experience Lead to take ownership of shaping a vibrant and seamless office experience at Arena’s NYC headquarters
- With a team of ~50 team members working on-site, this role is essential for ensuring that our office runs smoothly and our culture continues to thrive
- You’ll be the first point of contact for employees, visitors, and vendors, playing a key role in fostering an inclusive, energetic atmosphere that reflects Arena’s values
- From managing day-to-day operations to driving employee engagement initiatives, you will proactively enhance the office experience and ensure it supports both productivity and team satisfaction
- Your success will come from anticipating needs, taking initiative, and continuously evolving the way we work and connect in the office
- Office Environment: You will maintain a welcoming, well-stocked, and comfortable office environment. This includes overseeing office supplies, snack inventory, and ordering needs, ensuring that everything is in place for a smooth and productive day-to-day experience. You’ll anticipate requirements and manage any adjustments proactively
- Operations & Project Management: Fully own office operations and budget, negotiate contracts and manage ongoing service agreements and vendor relationships (e.g., cleaning, maintenance, etc.) to ensure cost-effectiveness and quality service. Partner with internal stakeholders on broader team initiatives (e.g. the logistics for the annual all-company offsite and organizing team swag)
- Employee Experience: As a key partner in employee satisfaction, you’ll enhance the team experience by supporting onboarding and offboarding, offering administrative support, and identifying new ways to improve the overall employee experience
- Culture Champion: Act as an office culture champion by organizing office events, team-building activities, and celebrations that promote connection, inclusivity, and fun, and take advantage of everything New York City has to offer
Our take
Arena leverages performance data, predictive algorithms, and machine learning technology to help businesses automate high frequency decisions. In theory, the platform can be used to automate marketing strategies, promotions, inventory and supply chain management, pricing, and more.
Although AI automated decision-making may sound overly ambitious at first, a closer look suggests that it’s actually a natural progression from the huge growth of AI-powered data analytics companies. Arena separates itself from these by providing the next actionable step, rather than leaving these decisions up to internal teams.
The company’s “business decision autopilot” is used by a number of Fortune 500 businesses including multinational brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev, so it must be doing something right. While it's shown stable and impressive growth since launching in 2020, a major 2022 fundraise led by Initialized Capital and Goldcrest Capital suggests an aggressive scale up is inevitable.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$32m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$32m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64m
Company benefits
- 99% of the monthly premium for Aetna medical insurance, plus vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Laptop and monitor of your choice
- Office supplies stipend
- Ramp Company Card
- Continued education allowance (books, e-courses)
- Attendances to top conferences in their fields
- Lunches at company wide meetings (several times a week)
- Snack and self-serve lunch options
- Global WeWork membership
Company values
- Real world > Lab – We focus on solving real world problems, not over-applying theory, and deliver measurable results that move the needle
- Speed > Perfection – We value getting from 0 to 1 fast, and then iterating. We believe that the more we ship, the faster we learn
- Trust > Procedure – We trust you and ask that you trust us. Micro-management and hierarchies are not our way
- Form + Function – We strive to truly understand the user and build products that move them on both a rational and an emotional level
- Pride - Ego – We shed our egos and approach problems from first principles. True competence is quiet and humble
Company HQ
Ukrainian Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Pratap Ranade
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CEO of Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir), which converts unstructured web data into APIs. Joined Palantir post-acquisition as a Forward Deployed Engineer. Before co-founding Arena, they led Engineering & Machine Learning at Enigma Technologies.
Engin Ural
(CTO & Co-Founder)Former Application Developer at Goldman Sachs. Spent five years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, before joining Enigma Technologies as a Software Engineer.
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