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Office Manager

San Francisco, CA

Posted: 01/28/2026 Industry: Operations Job Number: 3527751 Pay Rate: 80000/year - 90000/year

Job Description


Executive Assistant / Office Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)

Compensation: $80, 000–$90, 000 base

Employment Type: Full-time

Start Date: ASAP

Visa Sponsorship: Not available

Why Join This Opportunity

This is a rare chance to sit at the heart of San Francisco’s startup and venture ecosystem. You’ll work closely with founders, investors, and operators shaping the next generation of technology across AI, infrastructure, robotics, life sciences, and emerging industries.

The role offers daily exposure to top-tier founders and executives, meaningful responsibility from day one, and the opportunity to build a powerful long-term network. If you’re energized by people, events, and fast-moving environments—and see this as a stepping stone into venture capital, startups, or investing—this role provides unmatched access and visibility.

You’ll also play a key role in creating an in-person community experience, hosting curated events and dinners while managing a beautiful, high-profile office space in San Francisco.

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly organized, proactive, and socially confident Executive Assistant / Office Manager to serve as the operational backbone of our San Francisco office.

This role is well-suited for:
  • Recent graduates from top academic institutions who are ambitious and deeply interested in startups and venture, or
  • Candidates with 2+ years of experience in executive support, office management, events, or venture-backed environments.

You’ll manage office operations, support senior leadership during their time in SF, and execute high-touch events for founders and investors—often serving as the first point of contact for visitors and partners.

What You’ll Do
  • Plan and execute weekly high-touch events such as founder dinners, executive roundtables, and small gatherings that strengthen the firm’s network
  • Manage all event logistics including invitations, coordination, on-site execution, and relationship-building during events
  • Oversee day-to-day operations of the San Francisco office, ensuring the space is polished, stocked, and always guest-ready
  • Manage vendors, supplies, and building communications
  • Provide executive assistance to senior leadership while they are in San Francisco, including calendar management and meeting logistics
  • Support additional team members with scheduling and meeting preparation
  • Act as the main point of contact for office visitors, founders, and partners
  • Ensure a seamless, welcoming, and high-quality in-person experience for everyone who enters the office

Ideal Background

Experience
  • 0–2+ years in office management, executive assistance, events, or similar roles
  • Experience planning and hosting events, particularly for founders, executives, or senior stakeholders
  • Prior exposure to startups, venture capital, or fast-paced professional environments is a plus

Education
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Graduates from highly selective universities preferred

Skills & Traits
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive
  • Outgoing, personable, and comfortable building relationships
  • Strong interest in startups, venture capital, and technology
  • Ambitious with a clear sense of career direction
  • Able to juggle multiple priorities while maintaining polish and professionalism

Work Environment
  • Fully on-site role based in San Francisco
  • Collaborative, high-energy office with frequent founder and investor interaction
  • Small, close-knit team with significant visibility and responsibility

Who is Rainier Recruiting? 

Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search. Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate. Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with. 

Meet Your Recruiter

Joely Downing
Senior Recruiter

Joely spent most of her career in the hotel business and started recruiting in the Hospitality field before coming to Rainier Recruiting.  Outside of work, Joely enjoys time with family and friends and traveling. Confident she can find the best candidates from anywhere, she is hoping to move her desk permanently to Mexico sooner than later.    

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