Personal Assistant and Office Manager

Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment? Are you the kind of person who anticipates needs, takes extreme ownership, and gets real satisfaction from making things run smoothly?

The Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is seeking an exceptional Personal Assistant and Office Manager to support our Founder in the professional and personal dimensions of daily life. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who is passionate about helping make life run smoothly, efficiently, and excellently at every level.

About the company

The Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) is a for-profit think tank dedicated to unleashing energy freedom—where all sources of energy compete to deliver the most reliable, lowest-cost power for billions of people. We are a highly dedicated, mission-driven team of content creators and policy experts.

The Founder and President of CIP is energy expert and philosopher Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and Fossil Future. To learn more about Alex, check out his X and personal website.

About the role

Fundamentally, your role is to make Alex's life run extremely smoothly so he can laser-focus on running the company. In service of that goal you'll have a wide range of hands-on responsibilities, including driving, cooking, cleaning, organizing, errands, logistics, and household support.

A central part of the job is maintaining a physical environment for Alex that is consistently functional and beautiful. That means not just handling tasks as they arise, but proactively noticing and fixing shortcomings so Alex always finds his office, home, and car in excellent condition.

Responsibilities include:

• Driving principal to and from appointments, meetings, and other destinations
• Preparing healthy meals and managing groceries
• Cleaning and tidying living and working spaces to a consistently high standard
• Organizing rooms, surfaces, supplies, storage, closets, and household systems
• Handling errands, deliveries, returns, shopping, and other day-to-day logistics
• Managing personal appointments, reminders, and follow-through
• Coordinating maintenance, vendors, and service providers
• Packing, unpacking, and preparing for travel
• Taking care of principal's dog
• Keeping track of recurring tasks and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
• Supporting principal at events, interviews, and speaking engagements

Growth: The right person for this role will grow tremendously in this role. In the process of working closely with a leading energy expert and philosopher with a unique worldview, you will raise your standards of execution and improve the quality of your thinking. This role is not just a chance to be helpful. It is a chance to become a far more capable, effective, and high-performing individual.

Schedule: This role requires both flexibility and dedication. As part of supporting an ambitious person with very high standards, you'll need to be available to handle some tasks during evenings or weekends. You should be comfortable keeping an eye on communications outside of standard hours and responding promptly to anything urgent.

About you

• You are aligned with our mission of unleashing energy freedom.
• You are highly organized: you create and maintain foolproof systems that keep life running smoothly.
• You are highly detail-oriented: you naturally notice errors, clutter, timing issues, and things out of place.
• You are service-oriented: you get genuine satisfaction from making another person’s life run better in concrete, visible ways every day.
• You are standards-oriented: you iteratively improve your processes to achieve an excellent outcome, rather than treating process-following as the goal.
• You are tech-savvy and capable of using modern tools, including AI, to solve problems.
• You enjoy direct and honest communication and are comfortable receiving and acting on feedback.
• You are obsessed with learning and improving quickly.
• You hold a conviction that any goal can be accomplished, barring the laws of physics.

• Salary range: $100,000–$150,000, depending on abilities and experience
• Health and dental insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible paid time off
• A beautiful oceanside working environment in Laguna Beach