Here's the tl;dr:

• At Cradle, we are on a mission to help make programming biology easy. We do that by providing biologists with the software, machine learning & services to discover, design and optimise enzymes and their cell-factories

• We're an experienced team, have built many successful products before and we've raised EUR 5.5m from top tier investors

• We're focused on building the best possible team culture. We're are distributed across two locations, do almost everything async and are super flexible about when we work.

• We offer top of the market salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits from health and wellbeing, financial, to training and career progression opportunities.

This is Cradle

Cradle aims to make programming biology easy by providing biologists the tools to discover, design and optimise enzymes and cell-factories. We are bridge builders who bring together the best of machine learning, synthetic biology, developer tools, and user experience design. Our mission is to enable a world where most of the products around us can be easily made and degraded biologically using a cell-factory instead of (petro-)chemicals, plants or animal agriculture.

What we're looking for

We are looking for an executive assistant & office manager to join the team as one of our first employees. In this role you will work extremely closely with the CEO and founding team to build out our company. The ideal candidate loves early stage companies where you wear multiple hats and can pitch in where needed with a no-task-is-to-small mentality. Whether it is strategically managing calendars, organizing a fantastic customer event or making sure our state of the art lab has all the supplies it needs. This is a great opportunity to join a promising startup and craft your desired role as we grow the team over the coming years. This is an in-office role in Delft, the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Perform administrative tasks such as strategically managing email, calendars, booking travel, scheduling facilities and equipment

• Coordinate hiring and onboarding of new employees

• Organize documents & contracts as well as manage expenses and financial reporting;

• Managing laboratory access, contractors and inventory

• Organize for team and customer related off-sites and events

• Manage our office to ensure things are running smoothly and coordinate with vendors - food and beverage orders, managing contractors, etc.

• Ad hoc projects such as compiling a list of customers in a specific area to meet with

• Help prepare important team & investor meetings, taking minutes and working out action items

• Help foster a fun and happy company culture and add personal touches to make people feel appreciated

• Be a part of the team and a trusted advisor to the team

Must-Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience (+4 years)

• Experience in an administrative & office management role working in a technology or international environment

• Excellent organizational skills with great attention to detail.

• Superb communication and presentation skills

• An organized, pragmatic, dependable, accessible and reliable personality

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience in a fast-paced startup in a similar supporting role such as Executive Assistant or Office Manager

• Excellent command of Dutch, English and German

• Previous experience with collaboration tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Airtable and Linear

• Previous experience with coordinating recruitment, hiring and onboarding

• Previous experience with event planning and management

• Previous experience with inventory management and vendor management

• Previous experience with expenses and financial reporting management

Learn More & Apply

👉🏽 Did we peak your interest? We would love to hop on a call with you. E-mail jobs@cradle.bio or if you are ready to join you can apply through the form.

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**Even if you don't meet all the qualifications, but are enthusiastic about the job, we would love to meet you! We believe that anyone who is interested in a topic is able to learn. Do not hesitate to apply.

We also strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.**

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