Business Operations Assistant

**About Diraq**: Our proprietary technology, backed by 20 years of research and over USD $135M in funding across 11 patent families, allows us to scale using existing silicon CMOS manufacturing and existing foundries, to enable a faster and cheaper road to market. We are a team of world leading scientists, engineers, and business professionals who, with our existing IP and partnerships with global technical and commercial partners, will build the quantum ecosystem of the future and enable the creation of significant economic returns across the value chain. Since Diraq’s incorporation in May 2022, we’ve embarked on an exciting journey that will be a defining phase in our company's history. By expanding our commercial and technical team in Sydney and establishing our global presence, we're moving at speed to achieve our Phase 1 technical milestones. Our journey is more than just ambitious growth—it is the realisation of our vision, backed by the solid support of venture capital, and delivered by our remarkable team. If you're invigorated by a rapidly evolving environment and aspire to be part of a journey that shapes the future, we warmly invite you to join us on this remarkable adventure. **Role Overview**: **Key Responsibilities**: - Oversee operational logistics and coordination for the Senior Leadership Team, including managing their schedules, arranging meetings, travel plans and information flow. This includes proactively anticipating the needs of the Senior Leadership Team, and ensuring smooth scheduling flow. - Support the Commercial Team in operationalising processes across core functions as the team grows, including pre-empting tasks and requirements. - Coordinate internal and external meetings, events and communications, including agenda coordination and creation, and follow-up actions. - Ensure timely responses to inquiries and requests, maintaining a high level of professionalism. - Handle ad-hoc requests and tasks with a "can-do" attitude, demonstrating ownership and initiative. - Maintain a high level of organisation and attention to detail in all tasks. - Contribute to a positive team culture and foster a collaborative working environment. **Qualifications & Skills**: - Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, or related field preferred. - Minimum of 3 years of experience in an operational role, executive assistant or other related role, with exposure to business operations best practices, and ideally within a dynamic environment or fast-paced startup or technology company. - Strong problem-solving and solutions-focused skills, coupled with a keen eye for detail, demonstrating a capacity for rapid on-the-job learning. - Possess a proactive and self-driven approach, adept at recognising opportunities to streamline processes and taking ownership to execute, whilst boldly confronting challenges head-on. - Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders across the company, industry, government and academia. - Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion. **What We Offer**: - Competitive salary and benefits package. - Opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals and world experts in the quantum computing field, and a distinguished senior leadership team. - A dynamic, supportive, and innovative work environment, with opportunities for personal and professional growth. - Exposure and education from leading experts in the ground-breaking technologies that are shaping the future of quantum computing. - You will develop a deep understanding across the full spectrum of business operations, management functions and corporate governance in a high growth, deep tech start up. Pay: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year Schedule: - 8 hour shift Work Location: In person