Executive Assistant to the CEO

Who we're looking for

Title: Executive Assistant to the CEO

Department: General & Admin

Team: Office of the CEO (Right now this includes a Chief of Staff, with 1-2 more hires slated for Q1 ‘27) 

Knit’s CEO & Co-Founder: Aneesh Dhawan 

Supervisory Responsibility: This role does not currently have direct reports.

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Location: New York City - This role is a hybrid in-person in our Midtown NYC office. This role is expected to be in office 3 days per week, typically Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Travel: This role will not be expected to regularly travel. Note, Knit US does a US All Team Summit in-person once per year.

A little about us...

Knit is the AI-native research agency. We help the world's most iconic brands make confident decisions through deep customer understanding. Knit pairs our AI-native tooling with world-class researchers to run quant and qual at scale - delivering executive, decision-ready insights to inform billion dollar decisions. Teams at Amazon, Mars, T-Mobile, Paramount, McCormick, Nestle, Medtronic and 100+ others trust Knit to bring real customer voices into their biggest decisions.

Knit recently closed its Series B, raising $60M+ to date. Our team of ~80 is US remote friendly, with headquarters in our NYC midtown office. Our team is built with operating talent from Kantar, Ipsos, Doordash, Square, Hatch, and unicorn startups.

Overview

The Executive Assistant to the CEO is responsible for maximizing CEO effectiveness by ensuring his time, commitments, communication, and logistics run seamlessly. The purpose of this role is to maximize the amount of time the CEO can focus on high-leverage work that only he can do. Working closely with the CEO and Chief of Staff, this role creates the proactive structure and preparation that allows the CEO to stay focused and coordinated.

Success | What outcomes you're responsible for...

• Primary Outcome: A CEO whose time and logistics are exceptionally and proactively well managed so he has maximum focus on high-leverage work only he can do. 
• More about the CEO’s Outcomes: At Knit, the CEO is responsible for driving “Where are we going and how do we win?” His core ownership is around vision, talent, and finance, which includes setting company direction, pressure-testing key hypotheses, recruiting exceptional people, developing leaders, and ensuring we have the capital to achieve our goals.His ideal Day-to-day should ideally look like: Key interviews, time with direct reports and leaders to create clarity, opening commercial doors, advancing and closing major opportunities, and de-risking company-level bets. 

Responsibilities | What you will own...

• Own the CEO’s calendar and time. Manage and prioritize meetings with strategic intent, protect focus time, anticipate conflicts, and think several weeks ahead.
• Keep the CEO prepared. Ensure the CEO has the context, materials, agendas, and follow-ups needed for meetings and important commitments.
• Manage CEO logistics. Own travel, scheduling, expenses, reservations, and other administrative details from start to finish.
• Coordinate key stakeholders. Serve as a highly responsive point of coordination for executives, board members, investors, candidates, customers, and other important stakeholders.
• Stay ahead of commitments. Track deadlines, follow-ups, and action items so nothing requiring the CEO’s attention falls through the cracks.
• Support high-priority projects and events. Partner with the Chief of Staff, Head of Operations, Workplace Operations, and other leadership on important meetings, company events, and other CEO priorities as needed.

Required Skills & Experiences

The things that matter most to us in this role are: 

• Pace: You have 5+ years of experience supporting a CEO or founder in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment, ideally at Series B stage. You understand startup velocity, thrive under the demands of it, and move quickly & confidently even when info is incomplete.
• Proactive Understanding & Communication: You anticipate needs, see around corners, and solve problems before they reach the CEO. You are exceptionally organized and detail-oriented, and you communicate with clarity, brevity, professionalism, and responsiveness across internal and external stakeholders.
• Trust: You exercise exceptional judgment and discretion, particularly with confidential information and founder privacy. You know what to handle independently, what to escalate, and how to navigate competing priorities without constant direction. You are a trusted partner with other leadership, driving productive collaboration without friction.
• Style & Taste: You have strong instincts for how the CEO should show up across every touchpoint, from comms and meetings to travel, events, thank you notes, and beyond. Your judgment reflects the intersection of a high-growth technology company and an Enterprise brand: modern, entrepreneurial, polished, thoughtful, high-integrity, and never performative.

Benefits

Upon joining the Knit team, you will receive a competitive salary, Equity Options, Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), and Additional Coverage, a company laptop and one-time, onboarding Technology Stipend, a 401(k) with company match, flexible time-off, hybrid working, and more!

Salary

In accordance with our pay transparency guidelines, the expected salary range of the Executive Assistant to the CEO is $150,000 - $160,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s level, experience, and qualifications upon joining Knit.

Our company values

We are the Championship Team. This means we:

• Are 1% better every day: We approach situations with a growth mindset and ask, “How can we make the business better?” and “What would it take?” 
• Play to win: We set audacious goals & push ourselves to achieve with a bias towards action. 
• Keep the main thing the main thing: We identify what has the biggest impact and prioritize it.