Special Assistant to CEO, Breakwater

About Breakwater Initiative

AI will upend work as we know it. Breakwater Initiative is a new, action-oriented policy shop with a single north star: finding the very best ideas to support workers through AI's economic transformation and laying the groundwork for an economy that enables people to have purpose, agency, and the ability to thrive. We do not study the problem from a distance.

We conceptualize, test, and scale the ideas, institutions, and models that will shape the future of work and our social contract.

Our work spans three pillars: building the big ideas, policy agenda, and public infrastructure to support a response commensurate with the moment; testing new approaches and scaling what works; and engaging ordinary people in building an affirmative vision for what comes next. We are fiercely independent and nonpartisan: responsible to the public interest, not beholden to any lab, party, or private interest.

That independence is the basis for the broad public trust this work demands.

Breakwater is in its founding phase, currently operating as a fiscally sponsored project of RF Catalytic Capital, Inc. This is a rare opportunity to build an institution from the ground up at a moment when the questions it tackles are among the most consequential in American economic and civic life.

Breakwater seeks an energetic, highly organized, and self-directed Special Assistant to provide strategic, programmatic, administrative, communications, and logistical support to the CEO. The role combines executive and administrative support with project management, and it requires timely, proactive, and accurate correspondence both internally and externally.

This is a rare, front-row opportunity to join a growing, entrepreneurial, high-profile team in a fast-paced environment at the intersection of AI, the future of work, economic policy, and society. The portfolio will grow and shift as Breakwater does, and you will be exposed to a remarkable range of issues, people, and ideas along the way. What ties it together is trust: you will be the person who holds the details, the logistics, and some of the master plan, and whom the CEO can count on completely.

It is an exciting, high-energy moment in Breakwater's founding, and a chance to help shape a new organization from the ground up.

This role follows a hybrid schedule and is required to be in the office Monday through Thursday.

This is the heart of the role.

• Own and protect the CEO's inbox: read, triage, research, and route incoming correspondence, draft responses in her voice, and surface what truly needs her attention.
• Own the CEO's calendar and scheduling: guard her time fiercely, align every commitment to top priorities, and protect space for deep work, family, and the things that keep her at her best.
• Manage all travel, meeting logistics, expense reports, and reimbursements with ease and accuracy.
• Build and maintain the systems, files, and trackers that keep nothing from slipping through the cracks.
• Serve as the keeper of the record: capture key decisions, meeting outcomes, and next steps, and make sure they actually happen.

• Join the CEO in internal and external meetings, capture clear notes, and take ownership of every follow-up.
• Drive follow-through to completion, coordinating and communicating across Breakwater's team and collaborators so that the things that were promised actually happen.
• Be poised and credible in the room: confident enough to hold your own in external meetings and to write polished, initiative-taking follow-ups on the CEO's behalf.
• Debrief with the CEO afterward: help her make sense of how a meeting went, think through…