Executive Assistant

Role Overview

• You're the operational backbone for the founder you support
• Blend executive support with operational coordination
• Act as the central hub that keeps communication, tasks, and projects moving forward
• Streamline your business leader's workflows so their time and priorities are protected
• Maintain operational visibility across every task, project, and commitment
• Support faster, better decision-making
• Improve productivity by keeping systems and dashboards organized
• Strengthen accountability and alignment across the team
• Manage your founder's calendar, scheduling, and daily priorities across time zones
• Coordinate travel logistics: flights, accommodations, transport, and meetings
• Organize internal and external meetings
• Handle professional and occasional personal administrative tasks
• Keep the founder's schedule aligned with what matters most
• Act as the central coordinator for key tasks and projects
• Track priorities, deadlines, and deliverables across the team
• Follow up with people to make sure commitments get done
• Spot blockers and risks early, and escalate proactively
• Maintain operational visibility so the team stays aligned and productive
• Maintain and optimize the founder's workspace (Notion, ClickUp, or similar)
• Track project updates, task ownership, and company-wide priorities
• Keep documentation and workflows current as the business evolves
• Support the founder in maintaining a clear operational dashboard
• Turn meeting discussions into structured, owned tasks
• Join calls to capture action items and summarize key outcomes
• Brief the founder on takeaways, priorities, and next steps
• Facilitate team access to the founder for decisions and approvals
• Help with onboarding logistics for new team members
• Support process improvements as the company grows

Requirements

• 2+ years in executive assistance, operations coordination, or chief-of-staff style support
• Proven experience managing calendars, travel logistics, and complex scheduling
• Exceptional organization and task management, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Professional, and comfortable interacting with senior leaders
• Proactive, anticipatory, and solutions-oriented
• Comfortable managing up and holding a team accountable
• High attention to detail and discretion with sensitive information
• Confident on professional calls and video meetings
• Wants a long-term role, not a short project
• Experience supporting founders or executives in startups or small high-growth teams (nice-to-have)
• Familiarity with operational documentation and knowledge management systems (nice-to-have)
• Experience with AI productivity tools or automation platforms (nice-to-have)
• Additional languages such as French or Arabic (nice-to-have)
• Background in operations, project coordination, or chief-of-staff work (nice-to-have)

Benefits

• Work with global founders from wherever you are in the region
• Free 4-week AI-ready training that levels you up before day one
• A long-term home, not a gig, with a founder who values your judgment
• Real impact and growth, working one on one with people who shape where the business goes
• Flexible, remote work built around doing great work
• Competitive pay