Executive Assistant, Confluent

$99.7-131.8k

+ Annual bonus + Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Confluent

Data streaming platform

Be an early applicant

Confluent

Data streaming platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsBig dataCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$99.7-131.8k

+ Annual bonus + Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsBig dataCloud Computing

Company mission

Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience as an executive assistant, with a preference for candidates with a background in engineering
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills to drive alignment and ensure execution accountability across teams
  • Comfortable working across US and international time zones
  • Strong organizational skills with a keen eye for detail
  • Proven ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
  • Analytical skills and problem-solving ability to address diverse issues effectively

Desirable

  • Action-Oriented: Have a can-do attitude and are willing to do what it takes to get the job done on time and on target
  • Detail-Oriented: Take pride in your attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and thoroughness in every task
  • Strategic Planner: Can scope out project complexities, plan several steps ahead, and excel in organization
  • Proactive Problem Solver: Anticipate team needs and resolve complex administrative issues before they arise
  • Effective Communicator: Communicate clearly and effectively in various settings, including verbal, written, and presentations
  • Engineering Savvy: Understand how engineering organizations operate and navigate both formal and informal channels to get things done
  • Adaptable: Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and adjust effectively to changing priorities
  • Eager to Learn: Are enthusiastic about learning and taking on new challenges, believing that no task is too small

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a seasoned Executive Assistant with a background in engineering to support two executives in the Engineering department
  • In this role, you will play a crucial part in managing complex schedules, driving business priorities, and enhancing team collaboration
  • Your ability to manage through change and growth, while maintaining exceptional organizational standards, will be key to your success
  • Calendar Management: Proactively and strategically manage complex calendars, understanding business priorities to keep schedules organized and optimized
  • Meeting Support: Attend select internal meetings to capture and distribute notes, key takeaways, action items, and deliverables. Track and follow-up on deadlines to ensure timely completion of projects
  • Documentation: Prepare presentation materials and other documents using Google Suite and other tools for internal and external meetings
  • External Meetings: Manage and track complex external meetings, including follow-ups and action items. Ensure all relevant information is organized and accessible
  • Information Synthesis: Convert verbal and written communications into actionable notes, tasks, and deliverables. Direct follow-up to appropriate team members as needed
  • Background Preparation: Gather and prepare information for discussions and meetings to ensure thorough and informed conversations
  • Project Management: Assist with ad-hoc tasks and projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to prioritize and achieve business objectives
  • Event Coordination: Plan and coordinate logistics for team meetings, all-hands meetings, town halls, and other events
  • Central Contact: Act as the main point of contact for department activities, including team meetings, off-sites, and social events
  • Travel & Expense Management: Arrange domestic and international travel and process travel expense reports. Maintain organizational charts and email distribution lists

Our take

Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.

The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.

While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.

Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

27% female employees

14% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2020

$250m

SERIES E

Jan 2019

$125m

SERIES D

Total funding: $455.9m

Company values

  • Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
  • To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
  • Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
  • Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
  • Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
  • One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.

Company HQ

Mountain View, California

Leadership

Jay Kreps

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.

Neha Narkhede

(Co-Founder & Board Member)

Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.

Jun Rao

(Co-Founder)

Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.

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