Overview

Too many of the foods we eat destroy our health and our climate, and we aim to change that by replacing one of the most destructive foods on the planet with healthy and environmentally friendly alternatives.

Apply your skills to help improve the health of all people and our planet through the food we eat.

About Us

We’re a team of food lovers, nutrition believers, innovators, doctors, PhD’s, and problem solvers. We believe in taking care of our health and our planet’s health without sacrificing the foods we love. We started Zero Acre Farms out of concern for what we’re all involuntarily putting into our bodies and the profound effect it’s having on our health and the natural world.

Zero Acre Farms is backed by an incredible group of investors, including mission-driven VC’s, celebrities, influencers, and change makers.

The Role

Zero Acre Farms is looking for a detail-oriented, food-and-environment-loving Executive Assistant to manage the day-to-day work and personal tasks of the company’s founders, allowing them to focus their time on the most value-add business objectives, and to make sure that the founders are supported and nothing slips through the cracks.

The job of the Executive Assistant is to ensure that the founders only spend time on the most important business objectives, and not on day-to-day minutiae, and that personal items that distract founders from the business’s priorities are minimized and outsourced to the extent possible.

We are looking for someone located in the Bay Area, who can spend at least 1-2 days per week in our lab/office in San Mateo, CA.

About You

• You are passionate about supporting healthy foods that don’t squander the Earth’s natural resources.
• You love to help; you are a supportive problem-solver.
• You are organized and detail-oriented.
• You are passionate about health.
• You are willing to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is needed.

Requirements

• Previous experience supporting a high-growth startup founder/CEO
• Lives within comfortable commuting distance to both Oakland and the company lab/office in San Mateo, CA
• A reliable personal vehicle you are willing to use for errands
• Quick to anticipate needs and build a plan with limited direction
• Good to strong proficiency with technology such as Microsoft and Google calendars, email, and office applications such as Excel/Sheets, Word/Docs, and PowerPoint/Slides, as well as experience making travel arrangements and coordinating executive schedules.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask across a broad range of tasks

Responsibilities

• Health and environment-oriented research and data entry
• Marketing support
• Personal and business travel
• Organizing off-sites and conference details
• Take day-to-day work tasks off the founders’ plates (schedule meetings, order team lunches, coordinate with building management, schedule FedEx pickups, drop off deliveries, etc)
• Personal tasks (picking up dry cleaning, scheduling cleaners, finding a gift, returning clothes, resolving personal finance events, etc.)

What We Offer:

• The excitement and purpose of a mission-driven startup and the stability of a well-funded company with experienced founders and executives at the helm
• Empowered team members with minimal bureaucracy
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Unlimited vacation time (minimum 2 weeks)
• Focus on uninterrupted deep work time every day
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 401K coming soon
• Additional perks like Audible membership and free books
• Fun and engaging community. Work with driven, ambitious, health-conscious people who care about their work.

A note from our founders:

The majority of Americans are sick. Let that sink in. More people have a chronic disease than not in this country! 6 out of 10. And a hundred years ago, almost no one had a chronic disease. Our healthy life expectancy is decreasing for the first time in recorded history. Our solution so far has been more prescription drugs (in 2018, the average American filled eighteen prescriptions). We do not believe this is ok. How is this not one of the most important, urgent, and talked about issues of our generation? We want to change that. We want to slow down and ideally reverse the skyrocketing rates of chronic disease and environmental impact caused by what we eat. We truly believe that we can save millions of lives, as well as millions of acres of rainforest, if we are successful in our mission.

That’s what drives us, and we hope you’ll join us.

Apply:

If you are interested in applying, please include a brief cover letter, and tell us about your relevant experience, why you're interesting in this role, and what you do in your own life to improve your health and the health of the planet!