Executive Assistant (Contractor)

Tenstorrent; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent is seeking an experienced Executive Assistant for a one-year contract to provide high-trust, proactive support to a senior leader at Tenstorrent. You will manage priorities, protect focus time, and coordinate complex schedules across time zones while ensuring key commitments move forward.

The ideal candidate excels in organization, discretion, and communication within a fast-paced global technology environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience supporting senior executives in tech environments.
• Highly organized, discreet, and proactive with strong judgment.
• Excellent communication across levels and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize a complex executive calendar and protect focus time.
• Coordinate meetings, visits, offsites, and events end to end.
• Manage domestic and international travel and executive communications.
• Serve as trusted point of contact and ensure Bengaluru site runs smoothly.

Skills

Calendar management

Executive support

Stakeholder communication

Time-management

Tools

Calendar software

Job description

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

We are looking for an experienced Executive Assistant for a one-year contract to provide high-trust, proactive support to a senior leader at Tenstorrent. This role will help the leader operate effectively by managing priorities, protecting focus time, coordinating complex schedules, and ensuring that key commitments move forward.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, discreet, resourceful, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, global technology environment. You will act as a trusted partner who anticipates needs, brings structure to ambiguity, and communicates confidently with stakeholders at all levels.In addition to executive support, this role will help coordinate the day-to-day logistics required to keep the Bengaluru site running smoothly. This is an office-based role and will require regular coordination across global time zones.

This role ison-site, based out of Bangalore, India.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• An experienced Executive Assistant with 5–8 years supporting senior executives, business leaders, or functional heads, preferably in a fast-paced technology or engineering environment.
• Highly organized, proactive, and resourceful, with the ability to anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and work independently with minimal direction.
• A clear, confident, and adaptable communicator who builds trust with stakeholders across functions, levels, geographies, and time zones.
• Discreet and dependable, with strong judgment, professionalism, and experience using modern productivity, calendar, collaboration, and travel tools.

What We Need

• Own and optimize a complex executive calendar, protecting focus time, resolving conflicts, and aligning the executive’s schedule with business priorities.
• Coordinate meetings, leadership visits, offsites, and events end to end, including agendas, briefing materials, logistics, decisions, and follow-up actions.
• Manage domestic and international travel, executive communications, presentations, vendor relationships, visitor management, and day-to-day site logistics in partnership with relevant internal teams and external providers.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, handling confidential information with discretion and helping ensure the Bengaluru site operates smoothly and professionally.

What You Will Learn

• How to operate as a trusted partner to senior leadership in a high-growth AI and computing company.
• How to optimize executive time, prioritize competing demands, and create focus around the most important business priorities.
• Best practices for coordinating complex meetings, leadership visits, travel, offsites, and cross-functional follow-through.
• How to improve leadership effectiveness through proactive planning, thoughtful communication, and operational excellence across a global organization.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2). These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S. As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency. If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded.