We’re transforming the United States Government and we know that takes a dream team.
We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.
At Rise8, we continuously achieve unreached heights through next-level tech, and on-the-level collaboration. Together, we create continuous impact. We turn breakdowns into breakthroughs, make small steps into giant leaps, and deliver game-changing products through culture-changing process.
We pair Risers with their customer counterparts and practice pairing at every moment to elevate people and teams and deliver results fast and forever. We work in small teams and rotate between them frequently so that we are able to meet new challenges and explore new ideas.
Our methodology is about experimenting and learning, and our culture is empowering. We subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project and are guided by a promise and a purpose: to deploy critical outcomes to prod in order to drive relentless progress. Not just an idea. But an outcome. A better world. A world where every day, fewer bad things happen because of bad software.
Rise8 is certified as a Great Place to Work with 100% of employees saying they love working here.
If selected for this role, you will be my right-hand partner—helping me move faster, stay focused, and drive critical initiatives across the company. You will act as an extension of my capacity, filtering information, coordinating priorities, and handling operational details so I can focus on strategy, external partnerships, and company leadership.
Please ensure the responsibilities below reflect work that energizes you. This is a highly trusted position with broad access, fast pace, and significant impact. For the right person, it is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a mission-driven, high-growth company during a pivotal chapter.
- Bryon Kroger, Founder & CEO
You will serve as the Principal Executive Assistant to the Founder & CEO of a high-growth company (50% YoY) operating at meaningful scale (>$50M revenue). You will act as an extension of the CEO’s judgment, presence, and operating system.
What this role is not:
This role is for someone who gets deep satisfaction from elite support, takes pride in operational excellence, and sees their executive’s effectiveness as their primary output.
If you are looking for your next role after this one, do not apply.
If you are looking to become the best EA you can possibly be, please keep reading.
Core Responsibilities:
You will thrive here if you:
You will not thrive here if you:
The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $90,000 - $120,000 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.
Along with your resume, include a short note answering one question:
Why do you choose executive support as your career, and what do you find fulfilling about it?
Generic applications will not be reviewed.
This role is for someone who wants to be exceptional at support, not adjacent to power.
If that excites you, we want to hear from you.
All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.
Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Rise8 is an elite software development firm delivering a tomorrow where fewer bad things happen because of bad software. We are revolutionizing the way government agencies build, deploy, and utilize critical software. We are capable of delivering outcomes to prod up to 25x faster than the traditional software development model through a focus on lean product management, user-centered design and extreme programming.
Please mention you found this job on AI Jobs. It helps us get more startups to hire on our site. Thanks and good luck!
Understand the required skills and qualifications, anticipate the questions you may be asked, and study well-prepared answers using our sample responses.
Executive Assistant Q&A's