Senior EA
Acts as the CEO's operating system, owning time, priorities, information flow, and execution across business and personal domains to maximize leverage and reduce chaos. Requires 8+ years elite experience supporting founders/CEOs in high-growth environments.
About the job
What You’ll Own
You are accountable for outcomes, not tasks.
- Time & Priority Control
- Own the CEO’s calendar end-to-end with zero tolerance for low-leverage meetings
- Actively shape days and weeks based on strategic priorities, energy, and deadlines
- Manage relationships with investors, executives, partners, and in some contexts... friends and family
- Prepare daily and weekly briefs: what matters, what’s coming, what can wait
- Information & Execution Hub
- Be the single intake point for inbound: email, text, Slack, WhatsApp, etc
- Triage ruthlessly: respond, delegate, escalate, or kill
- Track open loops across work and personal life until closed
- Ensure follow-ups happen without the CEO needing to remember
- CEO Force-Multiplier
- Anticipate needs 1–3 steps ahead (travel, meetings, decisions, sensitivities)
- Pre-read meetings and surface risks, context, and landmines
- Draft emails, messages, and responses in the CEO’s voice
- Act as a trusted thought partner, not just an executor
- Personal Operations (Yes, This Matters)
- Travel planning across complex, multi-city schedules
- Household coordination, logistics, appointments, and life admin
- Discretion and emotional intelligence across sensitive relationships
- Reduce cognitive load so the CEO can operate at peak performance
Who You Are
- 8+ years supporting a Founder, CEO, or ultra-high-performing investor/executive
- You’ve operated in high-growth, high-pressure environments
- You think in systems, not checklists
- You have elite written and verbal communication skills
- You are calm under chaos and decisive under ambiguity
- You have impeccable judgment and know when to push back
- You are deeply discreet and ethically bulletproof
- You derive pride from making a company unstoppable
Skills
Calendar Management, Executive Communication, Triage Systems, Travel Planning, Executive Briefing, Information Management, Stakeholder Coordination, Discretion, Project Execution, Logistics Coordination
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