Executive Assistant

As Pyka’s first Executive Assistant, you’ll play a critical role in maximizing the CEO and other leaders’ efficiency, focus, and impact. Based in the SF Bay Area, you’ll be the primary point of coordination for the CEO’s time, priorities, and communication, ensuring he stays focused on what matters most. This is a high-trust, high-visibility role within the People team. We’re looking for someone who’s done this before — a true EA professional who demonstrates sound judgment, obsesses over details, and is calm under pressure. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and enjoys building structure where it’s needed.

Additionally, experience and interest in office management would be a plus. While not a core responsibility, there’s opportunity to take ownership of light office operations, including managing shared spaces, coordinating supplies, and helping the team run smoothly day-to-day. If that’s something you enjoy, we’d love to include that in this role.

About Pyka

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.

To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. 

We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. 

Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. 

What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day. 

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the CEO’s calendar, meetings, travel, and communications
• Serve as a gatekeeper, triaging requests and prioritizing time
• Provide support to other leaders as needed (calendar, travel, coordination)
• Prepare the CEO for meetings by compiling agendas, pre-reads, and follow-ups
• Help the CEO stay organized across a wide range of internal and external priorities
• Maintain, draft, and send communications on the CEO’s behalf as appropriate, prioritizing confidentiality
• Support logistical planning and coordination for leadership offsites, board meetings, investor meetings, etc.
• Partner with the People Team to build scalable systems for executive support
• Anticipate needs and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts or logistical issues
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and professionalism
• Support onsite visits as needed, including customers, partners, and interview candidates

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting senior executives in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Google Workspace, Slack, scheduling tools, and project management softwares
• Exercises a high degree of discretion and judgment, handling confidential information daily
• Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and reliable
• Strong communicator — clear, concise, and professional, with a high EQ
• Proactive and resourceful; you don't wait to be told what to do
• Comfortable operating with minimal direction and navigating ambiguity
• Skilled at prioritization and time management in a dynamic setting
• Familiar with startup culture and the unique demands of early-stage company life
• Experience supporting a CEO or founder strongly preferred
• Office management experience is a plus

Company Perks

• $105,000–$126,000 per year base salary + equity. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Salary ranges are subject to change.
• Employer-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance
• FSA with employer matching
• 401(k)
• Paid holidays, generous PTO, and additional unpaid time off
• Voluntary short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks
  

Export Control Requirements

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.  Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. 

Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.

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