Executive Assistant

Desert Ant Labs is an on-device AI lab in Europe. We're building efficient frontier intelligence, bottom up. We make the fastest model for each task, built to run on the billions of phones, laptops, and browsers people already own. Every model is lightning fast and private, and has no per-call cost. Little brains in every product.

With our native SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript, you add a model to an app in a few lines of code. Data stays with your customer, and the feature works without a cloud provider. Every role here pushes the limits of what a phone or a laptop can do.

You work with our leadership team on calendars, travel, events, hiring, and ops, and you organize and support our team's weekly and monthly cadence, like meetings and reporting. You're in our Amsterdam office most days, and you represent the leadership team inside the company and with the people we work with outside it. The goal is a leadership team that spends its time on the work only they can do.

You get a front-row seat at a fast-growing startup, with an experienced leadership team, super smart and driven colleagues, and the investors, partners, and candidates we work with. The work changes from week to week, so you learn a lot and grow quickly.

The role is 28-32 hours a week, with 3-4 days in our Amsterdam office. You get a lot of flexibility, and we do need you. We respect each other's time, and we work at a high pace across time zones, so working hours need to flex. That goes both ways.

• Run the leadership team's calendars, and schedule meetings across time zones from North America to Europe.
• Plan and book travel for the team, from conference weeks to partner visits.
• Support our events and offsites, from the venue to the day itself.
• Triage what comes in for the leadership team: answer what you can, pass on the rest, and flag what's urgent.
• Handle expenses and basic financial administration.
• Help with hiring: schedule interviews, keep candidates informed, and keep each process moving.
• Work with the companies that provide services to us, from the office to our advisors.
• Organize and support our team's weekly and monthly cadence: agendas, notes, follow-ups, and reports.
• Coordinate between every part of the company, and share context so each team knows what the others are working on and what's coming.

• Are comfortable in hyperspeed environments, where priorities change during the day.
• Are tech savvy, are excited to try new tools and products, and automate the tasks you repeat, including with AI assistants.
• Keep track of many tasks at once, and say early when something will slip.
• Represent a team well, and know when to decide and when to ask.
• Handle confidential information with care.
• Write clearly in English.
• Live in or near Amsterdam.

• Speak Dutch.
• Have coordinated hiring, events, or travel at a tech company.
• Have done bookkeeping or financial administration.

We're a small, flat team, and we build the models, the SDKs, and the apps that use them. Detail and Subwave, our own apps, run our models in production.

Start what needs starting without waiting to be asked, and finish what you start. Take on work outside your role when a project needs you.

We ship quickly, so we cut scope until only the part users notice is left. Anyone can comment on your work or redo your draft, and we say early when work isn't ready. We read that feedback as help.

We judge the work by what shipped and what changed because of it. Nobody counts hours.

• Salary and equity, based on level.
• In our Amsterdam office, 3-4 days a week.

We hire directly. We don't reply to emails from recruiters or agencies, and we don't want their outreach about this role or any other.

A few lines for each question is enough. A link to something you made says more than a long answer.