Executive Business Partner / Executive Assistant to the CTO & EVP Engineering

About the role

SiFive is seeking a highly capable Executive Business Partner / Executive Assistant to the CTO & EVP Engineering to provide a combination of high-quality executive support and strong business/operational leverage. This role is ideal for someone who can handle the fundamentals of executive support with excellence-calendar management, travel, meeting preparation, communications, and follow-through-while also stepping into more strategic and analytical work that helps the CTO and broader engineering organization operate effectively. This person will be a trusted partner to the CTO and EVP Engineering in managing day-to-day priorities, driving operating cadence for the engineering organization, and supporting cross-functional work spanning financial planning, product planning, headcount and organizational planning, and data-heavy spreadsheet analysis . The right candidate is organized, analytical, discreet, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving technical environment. This is not a pure administrative support role. We are looking for someone who can anticipate needs, improve operating rhythm, build structure where needed, and help the CTO stay focused on the highest-value work.

Responsibilities

• Executive Support
• Manage a complex and fast-changing calendar, ensuring the CTO's time is aligned with business priorities.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel, including detailed itineraries and contingency planning.
• Prepare the CTO for meetings by organizing agendas, materials, pre-reads, and follow-up items.
• Handle expenses, approvals, and other administrative workflows accurately and on time.
• Serve as a trusted point of coordination for internal and external stakeholders.
• Business Operations and Strategic Support
• Help the CTO run an effective operating cadence across engineering, product, and cross-functional partners.
• Build, maintain, and analyze spreadsheets, trackers, and operating models related to planning, budgets, headcount, and priorities.
• Support financial planning activities, including budget tracking, headcount planning, and coordination with Finance.
• Support product planning activities, including roadmap reviews, planning meetings, dependencies, and follow-through.
• Drive coordination across teams to ensure decisions, action items, and commitments are captured and executed.
• Identify process gaps and create lightweight systems, templates, and dashboards to improve execution.
• Communication and Coordination
• Draft clear internal communications, meeting summaries, and action-oriented follow-ups on behalf of the CTO.
• Partner effectively with leaders and teams across Engineering, Product, Finance, HR, and the Executive Office.
• Help manage staff meetings, reviews, offsites, and other recurring business rhythms.
• Track deliverables and proactively surface risks, conflicts, or missed follow-through.
• Judgment, Prioritization, and Confidentiality
• Exercise strong judgment in handling confidential information and sensitive matters.
• Anticipate issues before they become problems and independently drive resolution where appropriate.
• Prioritize effectively across competing demands and ambiguous situations.
• Represent the CTO's office with professionalism, responsiveness, and sound judgment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in executive support, business operations, chief of staff support, finance/program coordination, or a comparable role supporting senior executives.
• Experience supporting a senior executive in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Strong spreadsheet and analytical skills, including comfort working with detailed planning m

Additional Information

About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive's unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are. Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. Are you ready? To learn more about SiFive's phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA's prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages. Job Description:

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