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This Executive Assistant role is the operational backbone for the company's founders. You will anticipate needs, create systems, remove friction, and ensure nothing slips through the cracks. You'll manage both professional and personal priorities so founders can focus on leading the company, and help train leadership to work effectively with you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage complex calendars, meetings, and travel with ruthless prioritization for impact
- Act as a gatekeeper for founders' time and energy, helping them focus on what matters most
- Prepare agendas, capture and track action items, and follow up relentlessly
- Coordinate across the leadership team and with external partners
- Handle personal errands and life administration to keep founders' lives running seamlessly
- Create and refine processes for scheduling, information flow, and task tracking
- Anticipate needs before they're expressed and resolve problems proactively
- Serve as the NYC office on-site point of contact for day-to-day office needs, visitors, deliveries, and vendors
- Coordinate with building management on access, maintenance, and facilities requests
- Assist with internal events, team gatherings, and all-hands meetings
- Maintain NYC office supply inventory and manage reorders
- Support ad hoc administrative or operational tasks as needed
The role is hybrid with a requirement to be in the NYC office 3 days per week. You must be based in NYC.
Requirements:
- Proven experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment
- Exceptional organizational skills with a bias for action and follow-through
- Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive information
- Clear, concise communicator (both written and verbal)
- Proactive, adaptable, and unflappable when plans change
- Comfortable balancing both personal and professional responsibilities for executives
- Resourceful, highly organized, and energized by making others' lives run better
