Vulnerability response at the speed of AI. Cogent. Backed by Greylock.
About the role
We're hiring an Executive Assistant to the CEO to own the operations behind our CEO and Field CISO so their time goes where it has the most impact: customers, candidates, and building the company. You'll be their partner in running the week, planning ahead and keeping every commitment on track, with the trust to make calls on your own. Own calendar and email management for both executives end to end, from triaging inbound requests to protecting focus time across time zones Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a CEO or founder
- Background at a venture-backed startup or a venture capital firm
- You've done this job before and can run on day one: you anticipate what the CEO needs and act on it before being asked
- Advanced calendar and inbox management, with the judgment to decide what gets time and what gets declined
- Strong project management skills - you keep several workstreams tracked and moving at once
- Poise with customers and executives, and comfort being the first person a Fortune 500 security leader meets at Cogent
More about this role
Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.
To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.
We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from:
Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
Preeminent research labs like Deepmind and SAIL
We're hiring an Executive Assistant to the CEO to own the operations behind our CEO...
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