# Samantha Andonian

> Samantha Andonian is a San Francisco-based executive business partner who has spent more than a decade as the operational right hand to founders and C-suite leaders. She started as a stage manager and theater producer before turning that backstage discipline into a career supporting CEOs and chief product officers at Google, Slack, Bumble, Render and Splice. Beyond her own desk, she is an active voice in the executive-assistant community through eaMAFIA/eaRISE, mentoring EAs and pushing the field to be treated as a strategic profession rather than clerical support.

- **Role:** Executive Business Partner to the CEO at Splice
- **Organizations:** Splice, Render, Bumble, Slack, Google, The Walt Disney Company, eaMAFIA / eaRISE
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Theater Design and Production, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Performance and production studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
- **Known for:** Supported C-suite leaders across a decade at Google, Slack, Bumble, Render and Splice, Principal Executive Assistant supporting leadership at Slack through its acquisition by Salesforce, Active leader and mentor in the eaMAFIA / eaRISE executive-assistant community

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Assistant Stage Manager at Disneyland Resort; administrative and producing roles in theater (California International Theatre Festival, Rubicon Theatre Company)
- **2014-2019** — Administrative Business Partner at Google
- **2019-2024** — Executive Assistant roles at Slack, rising from Senior EA to the Chief Product Officer to Principal Executive Assistant
- **2024-2025** — Executive Admin / Lead Admin to the CEO (Lidiane Jones) at Bumble Inc.
- **2025** — Executive Operations / Business Partner to the CEO at Render
- **2026** — Executive Business Partner to the CEO at Splice

## Achievements

- Supported C-suite leaders across a decade at Google, Slack, Bumble, Render and Splice
- Principal Executive Assistant supporting leadership at Slack through its acquisition by Salesforce
- Active leader and mentor in the eaMAFIA / eaRISE executive-assistant community
- Featured panelist on building and leading high-performing EA teams (Maven Recruiting Group's 'Reach')

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Publicly recruiting an Executive Business Partner to join the leadership team at Render
- **2026** — Listed as Executive Business Partner to the CEO at Splice (per contact records)

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandonian/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/doesahappydance
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samdonian/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.kaden

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Last updated: 2026-07-29