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Executive Business Partner to the CEO and VP of People

Chainguard · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Chainguard

Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

We’re looking for a highly organized and resourceful Executive Business Partner to support our CEO and VP, People. This hybrid role is built for someone who thrives on variety: approximately 40% of your time will be spent supporting the CEO across executive business partnership and select work-adjacent personal needs, allowing them to focus on leading the company.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience supporting C-level or senior executives as an Executive Assistant, Executive Business Partner, or in a similarly high-trust role
  • Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • A high degree of discretion, judgment, and trustworthiness when handling confidential information
  • Experience running leadership meetings, coordinating offsites, and tracking action items and follow-up
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across executive support, office logistics, and select personal assistance
More about this role

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

We’re looking for a highly organized and resourceful Executive Business Partner to support our CEO and VP, People. This hybrid role is built for someone who thrives on variety: approximately 40% of your time will be spent supporting the CEO across executive business partnership and select work-adjacent personal needs, allowing them to focus on leading the company. You’ll dedicate another 30% to supporting our VP, People, including running staff meetings, coordinating offsites, and helping maintain the People team’s operating rhythm. The remaining 30% will focus on managing our...

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