Executive Assistant to Cto

Brex Brex · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · People

Executive Assistant to the CTO of Brex, an AI-native finance platform. This role involves managing the CTO's schedule, coordinating meetings, travel, and initiatives, and leveraging AI tools to enhance personal productivity and automate workflows within the engineering department. The candidate should have strong organizational skills, business judgment, and a curiosity for technology and AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and prioritize the CTO’s calendar across multiple time zones, including internal and external meetings, interviews, and complex domestic and international travel.
  2. Ensure the CTO is strategically prepared for meetings and speaking engagements by coordinating agendas, presentations, materials, and follow-ups
  3. Partner across the broader EPD organization to support key programs, communications, culture initiatives, organizational operations, planning processes, and strategic initiatives that strengthen alignment, engagement, and execution at scale.
  4. Coordinate and facilitate team, leadership, and All Hands meetings, including preparing materials, capturing notes, tracking action items, and driving accountability to ensure alignment and execution.
  5. Plan and execute team events, offsites, strategy sessions, and large-scale organizational programs, including company-wide initiatives such as Brex’s hackathon, coordinating across stakeholders to drive successful execution and engagement.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of administrative experience in a fast-paced environment, ideally supporting technical or engineering leaders, within in the SaaS industry
  • Outstanding organizational, written/verbal communication, and listening skills, plus high attention to detail
  • Strong team-player attitude; needs to work well under pressure and be adaptable in the face of changing priorities
  • Excellent problem-solving, time-management, and prioritization skills
  • High degree of discretion and integrity, especially when taking care of confidential information
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to scale personal productivity, draft communications, synthesize information, and automate workflows
  • Genuine curiosity about technology, AI, and how engineering organizations work; comfort operating in a highly technical environment
  • Expert with G-Suite (Google Calendar, Gmail, Google docs, Google sheets, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to scale personal productivity, draft communications, synthesize information, and automate workflows
  • Genuine curiosity about technology, AI, and how engineering organizations work; comfort operating in a highly technical environment