Executive Assistant

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Support the CTO and Chief of Staff by managing complex schedules, coordinating communications, and ensuring seamless operations across multiple time zones.

The Executive Assistant at Auterion will work closely with our Chief Technology Officer and Chief of Staff. Your attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and ability to actively anticipate the needs of our leadership team will be essential to our success. Day-to-day, you will manage the calendar of the CTO and CoS, organize events and assist the Chief of Staff on a daily basis with multiple tasks. You will be responsible for both of their schedules. This will include coordinating meetings & travel, handling confidential information, whilst also acting as the liaison between the C-suite and various stakeholders. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring that the day to day operations within the business are performed in due time.

Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Proactively manage the complex schedule of the CTO and CoS, including scheduling meetings, appointments, travel arrangements, and calls, in order to enable leadership to focus on strategic goals.
  • Arrange domestic and international travel itineraries, including flights, accommodations, transportation, visas and meetings.
  • Organize and coordinate meetings, including agenda preparation and meeting materials.
  • Provide administrative support, such as expense management, reports, invoices etc.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams to ensure smooth project delivery and alignment with executive priorities, as well as team events.
  • Work on high-impact tasks that require strong attention to detail, research, and problem-solving skills.
  • Handle sensitive company information with the highest level of integrity and confidentiality.
  • Identify opportunities to improve processes and operations that can help executives manage their time more effectively and the business run more smoothly.
  • Work autonomously across multiple time zones, managing multiple tasks. 

Qualifications and Skills:

  • 3+ years of experience in supporting a senior executive team
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proven experience working for a fast-paced start-up/scale-up, ideally in tech 
  • Previous experience with complex calendar management, including scheduling meetings, appointments, and events across different time zones
  • Willingness to go the extra mile and be flexible with working hours when necessary
  • You are adaptable, with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-changing environment
  • Ability to anticipate the needs of executives and work autonomously
  • Proficiency in modern tech tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Slack, etc.) 
  • Fluent in English
  • Fluency in German is a plus
  • CH / EU Citizenship is required 
  • Valid drivers license required
  • Willingness to travel regularly and at times last minute between Zurich / Munich offices 

Benefits

(Switzerland)

  • Flexible working hours
  • Stock Options
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Company pension plan 
  • Car parking  
  • Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
  • Mental health and wellbeing support

(Germany)

  • Flexible working hours
  • Stock Options
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Pension plan 
  • Extended social security package 
  • Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
  • Wellpass membership 

About Auterion

We are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.

At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible working hours
  • Other Benefit: Wellpass membership
  • Paid Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Auterion is the drone software platform built for enterprise that makes large-scale drone operations simple, safe and fully integrated in workflows. We’ve been on the same mission for over a decade, beginning with Pixhawk in 2008 and the revolutionary PX4 software created by our co-founder Lorenz Meier; today the world’s most widely used open-source drone autopilot operating system.  Our mission is to be the drone platform of choice for enterprise, government and drone manufacturers, while accelerating the drone industry by driving forward open standards to create a common, future-proof roadmap in a thriving, open ecosystem of buyers and vendors.  At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels and make an impact that matters.  With offices in California, USA, and Zurich, Switzerland, we offer a competitive salary, equity incentives, generous vacation, retirement and healthcare plans, flexible working, continuous development to widen your horizons, endless opportunities to have fun with a lively team, and the chance to fly a lot of drones. we’ve raised $25M in venture-backed funding from investors such as Lakestar, Mosaic Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Tectonic Ventures. Our global customers include General Electric (GE) Aviation, Quantum Systems, Impossible Aerospace, and the U.S. Department of Defense. We’ve raised $25M in venture-backed funding from investors such as Lakestar, Mosaic Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Tectonic Ventures. Our global customers include General Electric (GE) Aviation, Quantum Systems, Impossible Aerospace, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

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