Awesome Administrative Assistant for Hardware Startup
[Administrative Assistant, aka Assistant Office Manager, aka Assistant Operations Manager]
You will be a critical member of a small team working on transforming something historically boring and stogy (test equipment) into something exciting and cool. We've been doing it for a while, and now we're ready to scale up - we'll be raising financing and hiring 30+ people over the next few years. We need your help!
About us - you'll be working closely with founders and brothers Joe and Mark Garrison, as well as ops manager Debora. We're fun, nice people, and are on a mission to change the world.
Day to day you'll help run a super tight ship:
- Managing or helping with the hiring process
- Ordering lunch, office supplies, shipping supplies
- Taking inventory; auditing inventory numbers
- Taking great care of our customers - emails and phone
- Shipping orders every day (1-1.5 hours)
- Writing/updating procedures as needed
- Managing/helping our distributors as needed
- Working with our wonderful supplier in Taiwan - placing orders, making shipping arrangements, helping with various requests they have.
- Working with Quickbooks, bill.com, etc.
- Working with our fantastic bookkeeping/accounting/CFO partner
- Making travel arrangements
- Keeping the office organized / enforcing policies
You have a proven track record of:
- being unflappably positive and upbeat; not often getting discouraged
- things being totally under control when you're managing them
- getting amazing amounts of important and high quality stuff done
- taking the initiative on things that need to be done even though no one is watching
- holding other people, even your bosses, accountable to their commitments
- making things simpler and more organized
- creating very clear, simple procedures for complicated tasks
- paying attention to the details
- doing whatever it takes to get what you need
- readily admitting when you're wrong
- staying laser focused on what's most important for you to be doing
- rapidly getting unstuck whenever you get bogged down on something
- being decisive; not leaving issues undecided or unresolved
- speaking up and saying what you think
- agreeing with the best idea even if it's not yours
- finding and fixing the root causes of issues, not just treating the symptoms
Compensation Basics:
- Pay: depends entirely on how awesome you are; almost certainly matching or exceeding what you make now.
- Benefits:
- Health insurance, life insurance
- $400/month toward an electric car (Tesla Model 3 recommended)
- Free car charging at work
- 20 days (4 weeks) of PTO, option to sell back 10
- stock options
- free personal trainer Tuesday/Thursday
- onsite gym
- free laundry weekly
- free lunches