Full-Time

Senior Executive Assistant

Posted on 4/10/2026

Tools for Humanity

Tools for Humanity

201-500 employees

Develops global digital identity and currency

Compensation Overview

$183k - $215k/yr

+ Long Term Incentive

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Administrative & Executive Assistance (2)
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Requirements
  • Work out of the San Francisco office from Monday to Friday
  • Superior verbal and written communication skills, comfort in communicating effectively with senior executives and their teams. Acts as an extension of the executive.
  • Excellent time management and organization skills, comfortable driving others to deadlines and deliverables
  • Ruthless prioritization to manage challenging deadlines and competing priorities
  • Adaptable and anticipates change; comfortable with ambiguity and an ever-changing landscape of priorities
  • Creative and strategic problem solver, supporting our President and CEO constantly evolving priorities
  • Thrives in helping others be their best selves, anticipating the needs of the team so as to support and propel the work forward
  • Exceptional ability to partner with others; strong collaborative and diplomatic skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills displaying personal code of ethics, integrity, and trust. Discretion in handling confidential materials and issues
  • Thrives in a dynamic, fast paced and global environment
  • Ability to travel 20% of time domestically and internationally to work alongside the executives and team
Responsibilities
  • Manage time and calendars across global time zones, adjusting and prioritizing schedules due to last minute changes from conflicting meetings
  • Coordinate key team meetings with internal leadership teams across as well as with external business partners and potential candidates
  • Ensure the President and CEO are fully prepared and on time for meetings, directly supporting via note-taking, connecting dots and helping the execs and their teams stay on track
  • Keep a robust to-do list including work to be seen, emails to return, deadlines to manage, etc
  • Answer correspondence and redirect as needed to teams within TFH including crafting and sending communications
  • Assist in planning and logistics for team off-sites, all hands, events, and organizing catering when needed
  • Arrange complex domestic and international travel and process expense reports
  • Partnering closely with executives and teams to provide dates and timing that could impact project milestones
  • After-hours and weekend availability required on an as-needed basis, specifically when the executive is traveling or during peak project delivery timing
  • Team player who can work in a collaborative environment with global teams in multiple time zones

What Tools for Humanity does: It develops Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency and digital identity project aimed at building a global financial and identity network. How its product works: A hardware device called the Orb scans a person’s iris to create a unique, privacy-preserving digital identity called a World ID, and Worldcoin (WLD) tokens are distributed to individuals who sign up. How it differs from competitors: It combines biometrics-based identity verification (iris scans) with crypto onboarding to rapidly grow a global user base, focusing on financial inclusion in developing markets, and offering free Worldcoin tokens to new users. What its goal is: to establish a worldwide financial and identity network with broad user adoption, enabling access to financial services and verifiable identity through a shared crypto-based system.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$240M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • App fees for World ID proof create a new revenue stream.
  • Tinder Japan integration validates consumer demand for bot-resistant verification.
  • Selfie Check lowers onboarding friction versus exclusive Orb dependence.

What critics are saying

  • Kenya banned World, and South Korea fined TFH for privacy violations.
  • Layoffs signal weak Orb monetization despite millions of sign-ups.
  • Physical iris scanning deters adoption and triggers privacy backlash.

What makes Tools for Humanity unique

  • Orb-based iris scans create World ID proof of humanity.
  • World combines identity verification, payments, and token distribution in one network.
  • World ID targets bots and fake identities across consumer apps.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Phone/Internet Stipend

401(k) Company Match

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

9%
TechCrunch
Mar 17th, 2026
World launches tool to verify humans behind AI shopping agents

World, co-founded by Sam Altman, has released AgentKit, a verification tool designed to confirm real humans are behind AI shopping agents. The beta tool, developed by Tools for Humanity, addresses growing concerns about fraud and abuse as more consumers use AI programmes to browse websites and make purchases autonomously. AgentKit integrates World ID—derived from iris scans via World's Orb device—into the x402 protocol, a blockchain-based payment system developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. This allows websites to verify that a distinct human approves an AI agent's purchasing decisions without requiring human intervention at each transaction step. The tool is currently available to developers in beta. Users need a verified World ID from an Orb scan to qualify for verification, positioning World as a potential stability provider for the expanding agentic commerce sector.

AI Finder Guru
Mar 17th, 2026
World launches "proof of human" Beta to combat ai-generated content.

World launches "proof of human" Beta to combat ai-generated content. Sam Altman's company World focuses on developing "proof of human" technology for identity verification, aiming to address an internet flooded with low-quality AI-generated material. Interestingly, Altman's other venture, OpenAI, is often cited as a major source of such content, though one might note he anticipated these issues when founding World. This week, Tools for Humanity (TFH), the startup responsible for World, launched a beta version of a new verification tool. This tool is intended to advance agentic commerce - the rapidly expanding use of AI programs to browse the web and make purchases automatically for users. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_0 While this trend offers automated convenience, it also introduces risks like fraud, spam, and widespread online abuse. In response, World introduced AgentKit on Tuesday. This software development tool allows commercial websites to integrate a verification system that confirms a real human is authorizing an AI agent's purchases. AgentKit is built around World ID, the core of TFH's verification framework. The most secure form of this ID comes from scanning a user's iris with World's Orb device, which creates a unique, encrypted digital code. This verified World ID grants access to TFH's services through the World app. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_1 With AgentKit, a user's World ID can be linked to the x402 protocol, a blockchain-based open standard developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare. This system enables automated programs to transact directly online without constant human input. Users simply register their AI agents with their World ID, which then signals to websites via x402 that a verified human has approved the agent's actions. "AgentKit is built as a complementary extension to the x402 v2 protocol, in coordination with Coinbase," Tools for Humanity stated. "The integration is designed so that any website already using x402 can enable proof of unique human verification alongside (or instead of) micropayments." According to the company, this verification allows websites to assess whether to trust transactions from AI agents. The World ID badge confirms that someone is a genuine, unique person, though sites can still block users suspected of bad faith. EMBED_PLACEHOLDER_2 AgentKit is now available in beta to developers, with plans to refine it based on feedback. Users will need a verified World ID from an Orb scan to use this verification method. This launch comes at a pivotal moment, as major e-commerce and financial services adopt agentic commerce. Last year, Amazon and MasterCard added automated buying features, and Google recently introduced its own supporting protocol. As the field expands, the industry will seek reliable safeguards - a role World is clearly aiming to fill as the go-to provider for stability.

Business Insider
Nov 11th, 2025
Tools for Humanity raises $240M funding.

Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, aims to reach 1 billion users with its Orb device, which scans irises to create a "World ID" for distinguishing humans from AI online. The company has raised $240 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, with a valuation of $2.5 billion. Despite its ambitious goals, some former employees and experts question its long-term strategy and viability in a competitive market for payment and identification tools.

Outtake
Sep 25th, 2025
How Tools for Humanity is building trust into every email with Outtake Verify and World ID

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a technology company building for humans in the age of AI, has partnered with Outtake to deploy Outtake Verify for Email - a lightweight browser extension that cryptographically signs communication via World ID or unique device passkey - across their organization to protect sensitive workflows.

PYMNTS
Jun 9th, 2025
Sam Altman Brings Eyeball-Scanning Tech Effort To Uk

As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (June 8), the goal is to let people in Great Britain access verification services the company argues are critical for distinguishing between human and artificial intelligence (AI). World’s central product is an “orb” that scans a person’s eyeball to generate a digital ID that can access products and services online, along with the company’s Worldcoin cryptocurrency. According to the FT, the company will open several locations in London this week, following its American debt in April. “The U.K. is certainly one of the more influential markets in the world . .. it punches well above its weight globally,” Adrian Ludwig, chief architect at Tools for Humanity, the main developer behind World, told the FT

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