Executive Assistant / Operations Coordinator
Required skills
- Scheduling
- Coordination
- Administrative systems
- Follow-through
- Action items
- Deadlines
- Requests
- Shared documents
- Records
- Contacts
Nice to have
- Founder support
- Small team support
- HR experience
- People-operations experience
- Recruiting logistics
- Vendor coordination
Role summary
Nori Robotics, a YC S26 startup building affordable humanoid robots, seeks a proactive and highly organized Executive Assistant/Operations Coordinator. This role will directly support founders by managing calendars, meetings, travel, and administrative systems. Responsibilities include tracking action items, maintaining company organization, coordinating office operations (supplies, vendors, maintenance), assisting with hiring and people operations (interviews, onboarding), HR coordination (payroll, benefits), and administrative tasks like expense management. The position also involves arranging team logistics and improving processes. The role is full-time, in-person in San Francisco, and values judgment, initiative, and follow-through.
Scope
Own scheduling, coordination, administrative systems and follow-through. Protect the founders' time, track outstanding commitments and make sure important details get handled.
What you'll work on
• Founder support: Manage calendars, meetings, travel and meeting materials.
• Follow-through: Track action items, deadlines and requests; follow up and flag issues early.
• Company organization: Keep shared documents, records, contacts and internal processes up to date.
• Office operations: Coordinate supplies, equipment orders, deliveries, vendors, maintenance and visitors.
• Hiring and people operations: Schedule interviews, coordinate onboarding and offboarding, maintain confidential employee records, and support new-hire paperwork and workspace setup.
• HR coordination: Help administer time-off records and employee processes, answer routine questions, and coordinate payroll, benefits administration where applicable, and policy questions with our external providers and legal advisers.
• Administrative coordination: Organize invoices, receipts and expenses; work with our accounting, payroll and legal providers.
• Team logistics: Arrange events, customer visits and demos, and improve recurring processes.
Requirements
• Experience in executive support, administration, office management, operations or a similar coordination role.
• Strong organization and attention to detail, with a reliable system for tracking multiple priorities.
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication.
• Good judgment and discretion with confidential information.
• Ability to clarify a loosely defined request and carry it through to completion.
• Comfortable with calendars, spreadsheets, shared documents and task-management tools.
• Willingness to handle routine administrative work and unexpected needs at an early-stage startup.
Nice to have
Experience supporting founders or a small team; HR or people-operations experience; recruiting logistics, vendor coordination, purchasing or bookkeeping support; interest in robotics and familiarity with AI tools for administrative work.
This role is full-time and in-person in San Francisco. A specific degree is not required. We value judgment, initiative and consistent follow-through.
Compensation
Base salary: $80,000–$100,000 per year, depending on experience and scope of responsibility.
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