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The founders' time is the company's scarcest resource. Someone has to guard it, and see the problem before it becomes one. That someone is you. You run their calendars, their travel, and the office itself, and you stay a step ahead so the day runs on time and nothing reaches them as a fire. This is not a reactive role. It is anticipation, and it is yours.
First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.
We've Built Cutting Edge Systems at Legendary Companies Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.
Own the founders' calendars: complex, shifting schedules across three founders and multiple time zones, prioritized ruthlessly, with focus time protected.
Own travel end-to-end: domestic and international flights, hotels, ground, agendas, and the last-minute changes, so a trip is never a distraction.
Own the office: facilities, snacks and kitchen, supplies and inventory, printers, and the vendors who keep it stocked and working.
Own shipping and receiving: incoming and outgoing shipments, including parts and hardware, logged and routed to the right hands.
Own front of house: the warm, professional first point of contact for visitors, candidates, customers, and partners.
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Manage the founders' calendars and protect focus time, resolving conflicts before they happen.
Book and run domestic and international travel and logistics end-to-end, including the last-minute changes.
Keep the office and facilities stocked, working, and welcoming, and manage the vendors behind it.
Handle shipping and receiving, expense reports, receipts, and day-to-day admin with accuracy and discretion.
Prepare for meetings and coordinate on-sites, team events, and the offsites that keep a fast-growing team connected.
Partner daily with the Chief of Staff on the operating rhythm and jump on whatever the founders and the company need most.
You've done this at a fast-moving, high-growth technology company, and you know what it takes to support leaders who operate at speed.
Anticipatory and proactive - you see around corners, prepare for what's next, and solve problems before they're raised. You are never strictly reactive.
Ruthlessly organized and detail-obsessed. Nothing slips: not a flight, not a receipt, not a package, not a guest.
Calm and resourceful under pressure, and able to turn on a dime when plans change.
A warm, clear communicator with a genuine service mindset - and the discretion to be trusted with sensitive schedules, travel, and information.
Low ego, high ownership. You take pride in a well-run office and a well-run day.
Bonus: you've supported founders or senior executives at a company known for speed and ownership (Anduril, Saronic, SpaceX, Tesla, Anthropic, or OpenAI, or the equivalent bar somewhere less obvious); fluency with Google Workspace and modern scheduling, travel, and expense tools; experience in a hardware, defense, aerospace, or GovCon environment; and having helped stand up or scale an office from the early days.
American defense technology company building forward-deployed equipment for autonomous systems for the United States and its allies.
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