Executive Partner to the Founder & CEO, Demand.io, US

Become the indispensable strategic partner and operational force-multiplier to the founder of a profitable, AI-native company.

We're not just hiring. We're inviting a partner.

At Demand.io, we're restoring humanity to the heart of commerce. We're a profitable, founder-led company building the truth layer for the $8.1T global commerce economy. We do this by architecting ShopGraph, the internet's most comprehensive, verified commerce knowledge graph, and intelligent agents like SimplyCodes and Product.ai that run on top of it.

This is not a traditional administrative role. We are seeking a career executive partner to join the Office of the CEO, a professional accustomed to operating at the highest levels of trust, discretion, and strategic impact. You will be the central operational hub for the CEO and our Santa Monica HQ, architecting the systems that enable him to lead at maximum velocity.

Your Mission: Architect the Office of the CEO

Your mission is to act as the CEO's most trusted partner, creating leverage by ensuring his time and focus are always directed at the highest-impact work. You will be a strategic gatekeeper, a cultural ambassador, and the operational owner of the executive office. You will operate across three core domains:

• Strategic & Operational Partnership: You will be the architect of the CEO's operating system, managing his priorities and acting as a trusted proxy.
• High-Discretion Ownership: You will be entrusted with confidential corporate, legal, and financial matters, serving as a primary liaison with our most critical external partners.
• Cultural Ambassadorship: You will be the owner of our Santa Monica HQ experience, ensuring it is a world-class environment that reflects our unique, high-performance culture.

How You'll Operate & Build

At Demand.io, context is the work . Your impact scales by building systems and creating leverage. Your core loop will be:

• Architect the CEO's Operating System: You will be the architect of the CEO’s executive cadence, strategically managing his calendar, communications, and commitments to ensure his time is allocated to the highest-leverage work.
• Own the HQ Experience: You will be the single point of ownership for our Santa Monica HQ, architecting a world-class workplace experience and planning the cultural events—from weekly rituals to annual offsites—that bring our values to life.
• Manage High-Discretion Projects: You will be entrusted with managing sensitive corporate and financial operations, serving as the primary liaison with our legal and financial partners and handling confidential matters with absolute integrity.
• Orchestrate AI Systems: You will leverage AI as a force-multiplier for your own work, using it to automate tasks, synthesize information, and operate with greater speed and efficiency.
• Compound the OS: You will own and deliver Outcomes, not just tasks, making our core operating system smarter with each system you ship.

What we're looking for

A career executive partner who thinks like a chief of staff and operates with the discretion of a trusted confidant.

• 5-10+ years of experience supporting a C-level executive or high-profile founder in a high-performance, fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence and interpersonal savvy, with the ability to serve as a credible and effective proxy for the CEO.
• A demonstrated history of managing highly confidential corporate and financial information with absolute discretion.
• A "velvet hammer"— a warm, approachable, and empathetic leader who is also fiercely protective of the company's priorities and the CEO's focus.
• A systems-thinker who defaults to building scalable processes rather than just managing a checklist of tasks.

Who Thrives Here (And Who Doesn't)

We're building a very specific type of team. This environment is designed for:

• Builders who think in systems , not tasks.
• First-principles thinkers who question assumptions.
• Polymaths who expand across domains instead of staying narrow.
• People energized by autonomy, accountability, and the speed of a flat organization.

This is not the right place for everyone. If you prefer playbooks over ambiguity, approval chains over autonomy, or narrow roles over broad responsibility, you will likely find our approach frustrating.

Compensation & Partnership

• First Year Cash Comp: $220,000 - $290,000
• Profit-Sharing Bonus (PSB): As a key strategic partner, you will be invited into our Partners Program. You receive a monthly, cash-based bonus tied directly to company revenue growth. This isn't hypothetical upside. For most high-performing Partners, the PSB adds 30-100%+ to annual cash compensation.
• Equity: You'll receive a meaningful equity grant that reflects the role's seniority and critical importance, positioning you as a true owner in the long-term value you will help create.

Translation: We reward outcomes, not optics. The people building the future of Demand.io share directly in its success—today, not just someday.

Our Operating System

We are not employees; we are partners. We operate like a Special Forces unit, not a corporation.

• Flat & Trust-Driven: There are no committees or layers of approval. If you've engineered the context, you ship.
• AIOS is the Engine: All work is transparent and interconnected in our AI Operating System. Strategy alignment happens in real time through shared context, not meetings.
• First Principles is Dogma: We don't copy "best practices." We build solutions from the ground up.
• Outcomes Over Activity: We don't measure hours or tasks. We measure state changes.

Interested?

We know great talent isn't always actively job hunting. If you're intrigued by a place where you can build foundational technology as a peer and share directly in the value you create, let's talk.

Send us:

• Your resume or a link to your LinkedIn profile.
• A short note on what aspect of this partnership model resonates most with you.
• We can go from there.

Want to learn more about our culture, products, and team?

👉 Explore our company intro on Notion

💬 Note from Michael, Founder & CEO

"I'm looking for a partner I can trust implicitly—a strategic thought partner who can operate with the judgment and foresight to manage the critical intersection of my role as CEO and the operational needs of the company. Your mission is to create the frictionless environment that allows me, and our entire team, to do our best work. If you are a career professional who thrives on creating leverage and operating at the highest level of trust, I want to talk to you."