About the Role
World Labs is seeking an Executive Business Partner (EBP) to support the CEO. This is a highly strategic and execution-oriented role designed to create leverage for one of the most influential leaders in AI. The EBP will operate as a hybrid of Executive Assistant (EA) and Personal Assistant (PA), owning priorities end-to-end, anticipating needs, and ensuring seamless execution across the CEO’s professional landscape, including both World Labs and her ongoing commitments at Stanford. This is a high-trust role for someone who brings excellent judgment and discretion, is highly detail-oriented without sacrificing speed, and knows how to create leverage in a fast-moving environment with significant internal and external demands. The ideal candidate will not only manage execution, but also act as a force multiplier, reducing cognitive load, driving alignment, and enabling the leadership to focus on the highest-impact priorities.
Responsibilities
- Own CEO’s calendar end to end: sequence priorities, protect focus time, anticipate conflicts, and exercise sound judgment on what requires her time and attention.
- Partner closely with the COO and EA/Ops team to coordinate schedules and priorities.
- Work very closely with the CEO’s Stanford team on competing conflicts and priorities to ensure a seamless schedule.
- Coordinate complex internal and external scheduling, including executive meetings, press, speaking engagements, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Plan and coordinate meetings, travels, events, and logistics end to end, ensuring the right preparation, context, and follow-through.
- Build and maintain a lightweight operating system around priorities, open loops, follow-ups, and key commitments so important work continues moving forward.
- Ensure the CEO is prepared for key meetings with the right context, pre-reads, agendas, and understanding of who is in the room and what matters.
- Capture decisions and action items, proactively drive follow-through, and ensure nothing important gets lost between conversations.
- Manage and triage CEO’s inbox, surfacing what requires her attention and drafting thoughtful responses when appropriate.
- Serve as a trusted partner in prioritization.
- Provide thoughtful personal support when needed, including appointments, vendors, and travel coordination, handling sensitive matters with discretion and sound judgment.
- Anticipate needs, identify issues early, and take initiative to resolve them proactively with minimal direction.
- Be comfortable working within a high-stakes and time sensitive environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience supporting c-suite, founder, or similarly high-profile leader in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Exceptional judgment, discretion, and ability to handle highly confidential information.
- Operationally minded, organized, and detail-oriented, with a natural ability to build systems, create structure, and anticipate needs in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Demonstrated capability orchestrating very complex local and global travel logistics, giving consideration to any additional requirements for a high profile and highly recognized individual.
- Strong written and verbal communicator who can adapt thoughtfully to different working styles and build effective relationships across research, engineering, product, marketing, and operations.
- Experience in technology, AI, academia, or research environments is a plus.
- Bilingual fluency in English and Mandarin is a must.
- Thoughtful, considerate, and proactively identifies situations and events that require a more nuanced approach or special touch.
- Tech-savvy, with fluency in modern productivity tools (e.g., Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini, Google Workspace, Slack, Signal).
- Willingness to be in the San Francisco office 5 days.
- Flexibility to travel to Palo Alto as required.
Skills
- Calendar Management
- Scheduling
- Meeting Coordination
- Travel Logistics
- Event Planning
- Inbox Management
- Prioritization
- System Building
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Relationship Building
- Bilingual Fluency (English/Mandarin)
- Discretion
- Judgment
- Attention to Detail
- Proactiveness
- Problem Solving
- Adaptability
- Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Signal
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years
About the Company
- World Labs is building foundational AI infrastructure for spatial intelligence, the next frontier beyond large language models.
- Co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall the company is pioneering Large World Models (LWMs), which enable machines to understand and interact with 3D environments, physics, and real-world dynamics.
- The company’s flagship product, Marble, transforms text, images, and video into fully navigable 3D worlds, unlocking applications across gaming, film, architecture, robotics, and immersive digital experiences.
- Backed by leading investors and valued at over $1B, World Labs is assembling a world-class team at the intersection of AI research and real-world deployment.
- We are hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work.
- If you are ready to help build technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.
- Join us, and let's make history together.
