Executive Assistant
About the role
This is not a traditional Executive Assistant role. You'll work directly with Rainmaker's Founder & CEO, helping manage his time, communications, travel, and day-to-day operations. You'll coordinate complex domestic and international travel, manage an evolving schedule, prepare for important meetings, and ensure priorities stay on track as the company grows.
Responsibilities
- Own the CEO's calendar, ensuring time is allocated to the highest-impact priorities.
- Cook up complex domestic and international travel, often on short notice.
- Travel alongside the CEO for customer meetings, government engagements, conferences, and internal offsites.
- Prepare meeting materials, agendas, and background research ahead of important conversations.
- Cook up communication between internal teams, customers, investors, and government stakeholders.
- Anticipate operational issues before they become problems.
- Handle confidential information with absolute discretion.
- Help execute special projects that range from strategic initiatives to whatever needs to get done that day.
- Remove friction from the CEO's workflow so execution never slows down.
Requirements
- Willingness and capability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% the time, including occasional short-notice travel.
- Administrative experience supporting senior level executives in a corporate environment.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- An approachable style and ability to effectively and professionally interface with high level executives, clients, employees and business associates both internal and external.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Proven experience in multi-tasking and working with multiple people and priorities, while delivering on high quality results and follow through.
- Demonstrates curiosity and a desire to understand the company goals.
- Experience supporting multiple executives.
- Experience with domestic and international travel coordination.
- Proficient in scheduling meetings in multiple time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous internship or 1-2 years of experience in the Federal government (e.g. Congress, Executive Office of the President, federal agencies, Department of Defense, or national laboratories), management consulting, venture capital, investment banking, or other high-performance environments.
- Experience supporting senior executives, founders, or high-performing teams.
- Previous startup experience or demonstrated interest in building early-stage companies.
- Exceptional written communication skills and the ability to draft executive correspondence with minimal direction.
- Experience coordinating complex domestic and international travel.
- Proven ability to manage confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Compensation & Benefits
- Significant equity grant with meaningful upside as an early employee.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k).
- Relocation assistance, if applicable.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Daily lunch provided when working from our El Segundo headquarters.
- Opportunity to travel domestically and internationally alongside the CEO and leadership team.
- Front-row seat to building one of the world's leading weather modification companies from the ground up.
About Rainmaker
Rainmaker's mission is to use proven, dependable technologies to fight water scarcity. In doing so, we secure not only our own future but also the beauty and abundance of our natural world.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Rainmaker is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Rainmaker is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.