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Executive Assistant (to the CEO)

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04
About Blacksmith • We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run reputed company Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic reputed company VMs. • Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs reputed company month, running CI for 3,000+ companies and hit ~$10M in ARR in less than 2 years. 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