Executive Assistant to Founder, Fictiv
$75-90k
Global manufacturing and supply chain company
Job no longer available
Global manufacturing and supply chain company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$75-90k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify sourcing for customer manufacturing.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience supporting an individual, Founder, or executive in a similar role
- Experience managing complex scheduling, travel, and logistics across multiple priorities
- Experience handling confidential information, personal logistics, and ad hoc requests with discretion
- Strong background in event planning, hospitality or private client services
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to anticipate needs proactively
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly personalized environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly capable, proactive Executive Assistant to serve as a trusted right hand to our Founder. This role goes beyond traditional administrative support — you will be a strategic partner who ensures the Founder’s time, energy, and attention are focused where they matter most
- This role requires someone who can bring structure to a fast-paced environment, ensure critical tasks are tracked and completed, and help maximize the Founder’s effectiveness and productivity. You will manage competing priorities across a dynamic calendar, drive seamless communication, and operate with a high degree of autonomy, discretion, and sound judgment
- Manage and optimize the Founder's calendars, ensuring alignment across priorities, commitments, and time-sensitive decisions
- Coordinate communications on behalf of the Founder, including email triage, correspondence, and schedulingPrepare briefing materials, agendas, and meeting notes, with clear follow-through on action items
- Manage complex domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and detailed itineraries
- Serve as a liaison between the Founder and internal teams, external partners, and key stakeholders
- Assist with special projects and strategic initiatives as they arise
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Our take
Fictiv is a digital manufacturing ecosystem that enables companies all over the world to acquire parts and components quickly. Its digital platform and global partner network provide a powerful palette of features, with the company positioning itself as the Amazon Web Services of hardware.
Also on offer from Fictiv is 3D printing, with the platform taking advantage of a range of technologies in this area. This makes it possible for businesses to obtain production-quality parts, without having to invest in tools and expertise.
The company has also leveraged technology in order to provide customers with access to a wide range of capabilities through components. With the 3D printed materials market set to reach $18 billion by 2030, Fictiv is well-placed to benefit from this significant growth, especially following its significant investment in accelerating product innovation.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2022
$100m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$35m
SERIES D
Total funding: $193m
Company benefits
- Monthly virtual work stipend
- Wellness perks
- Paid volunteer days
- Learning and development stipend
- Paid parental leave
- Equity options
Company HQ
West Oakland, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Dave Evans
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Fictiv's CEO, Dave is also the CEO of MISUMI USA. He is also an Executive Board Member at Fast Company, a Manufacturing Industry Contributor at Forbes Technology Council, and a Member of the Advanced Manufacturing Group at the World Economic Forum. Previously, he served as a Lead Hardware Engineer at Ford Motor Company.
Nathan Evans
(Co-Founder & Head of Climate/AI)Nathan earned a BA in International Relations and an MA in Chinese from Stanford University. He then worked briefly at Microsoft as an Area Marketing Manager. He also founded Citizens of Wine and worked as an Associate at Seven Hills before co-founding Fictiv in 2013.
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