Part-Time House Manager & Family Assistant
About The Position
We are a warm, busy professional family with a welcoming home in Los Altos seeking a Part-Time House Manager & Family Assistant. Both parents have full and demanding professional lives, and we value a home that feels grounded, organized, and full of warmth. Our energetic toddler brings joy, curiosity, and energy to our days. We genuinely enjoy our time together, aiming for a joyful and connected home environment. We seek someone who can naturally fit into our family's energy while bringing a thoughtful, proactive approach – someone warm, kind, engaged, and ready to jump in where needed. Our home operates best with a well-stocked kitchen, thoughtfully planned meals, smoothly running systems, and handled details. We care about healthy eating, a calm and organized environment, and creating ease for our family. The right person will take pride in kitchen organization, a stocked fridge, meal prep, and household systems that lighten everyone's days. This role is about creating a home that feels prepared, peaceful, and cared for, while honoring our family's fun, loving, and playful energy.
Requirements
- Maintain a smoke-free environment.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Reliable personal transportation required; mileage reimbursement provided.
- Candidates are required to be up to date on recommended vaccinations in line with American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines (including COVID-19), subject to applicable legal accommodations.
- Warm, proactive, grounded, and genuinely great with young children.
- Calm, cheerful presence, ability to read the room, adjust approach, and support the household thoughtfully and intuitively.
- Friendly, personable, highly professional, and dependable.
- Ability to observe, assess, and act without step-by-step task assignment.
- Ability to see what needs attention, prioritize effectively, and follow through with care.
- Enjoy helping a family build better systems.
- Demonstrated experience in a private household or similarly high-touch environment where discretion, organization and strong follow-through are essential.
- Detail-oriented, flexible when priorities shift, and deeply reliable.
- Comfortable working alongside a full-time nanny and a weekly cleaning team, and ability to communicate with other household support in a gracious, collaborative, and professional way.
- Demonstrated experience, maturity, and confidence.
- Ability to become a true strategic partner to the family.
Responsibilities
- Weekly meal planning for the family
- Grocery shopping and online ordering to keep the kitchen consistently stocked
- Prepare meals and healthy snacks for the child several times per week
- Prepare simple adult dinners or prep meal components approximately 1-2 times per week
- Maintain a clean, organized, and well-stocked kitchen and pantry
- Create and maintain household organization systems throughout the home
- Seasonal swaps for holiday décor
- Prepare donation drop-offs
- Assist with event, holiday, and guest preparation
- Manage household supplies, including maintaining running lists, restocking, subscriptions and reorders
- Handle returns, dry cleaning, gift shopping, and miscellaneous errands
- Manage incoming and outgoing packages, returns and deliveries
- Organizational projects for toys, gear, and storage spaces
- Manage the household calendar and coordinate family logistics, appointments and miscellaneous scheduling
- Prepare the home for each cleaning team visit, proactively identify priorities and direct the team to ensure their time is used effectively and household standards are maintained
- Research and coordinate repairs, vendor quotes, and service providers
- Light backup childcare and brief supervision as needed
- Date night coverage approximately once per month
- Proactive, child-related purchases and errands (snacks, supplies, age-appropriate items)
- Assist with daily child-related logistics as needed
- Wash, fold, and organize laundry as needed
- Steaming and light garment care as needed
- Maintain a tidy and well-stocked laundry area
Benefits
- Mileage reimbursement provided.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
