DraftKings

Executive Assistant

DraftKings$81K — $102K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field
  • Minimum five years supporting senior executives in a fast-paced environment
  • Expertise in managing complex executive calendars with competing priorities
  • Familiarity with budget tracking and expense management
  • Experience with executive operating processes for leadership meetings and board presentations
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a polished executive presence
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and video conferencing tools; experience in Legal environments preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Own and optimize complex calendars for the Chief Legal Officer and direct reports
  • Evaluate meeting requests and resolve scheduling conflicts with sound judgment
  • Partner with the executive to gather updates and align on priorities
  • Respond to requests for information and ensure timely follow-through
  • Coordinate travel and executive logistics with accuracy
  • Provide backup support for other executives as needed
  • Build relationships across the organization while ensuring confidentiality
  • Support special projects as business needs evolve.

Benefits

  • Gaming license assistance during onboarding if applicable
  • Opportunities for bonuses and equity participation
  • Comprehensive range of employee benefits offered
  • Dynamic work environment with a fast-paced culture
  • Exposure to high-level executive operations and legal environments.
Full Job Description
As an Executive Assistant to the Chief Legal Officer, you'll focus on keeping complex schedules, priorities, and communications moving seamlessly. You'll act as a trusted partner to your executive, anticipating needs, coordinating across teams, and managing sensitive information with care. This role sits at the center of a fast-paced, results-driven environment where priorities shift quickly and precision matters. This role requires exceptional organizational skills executive presence, and the ability to build trust across executive leadership and key partners. Your ability to balance competing demands while exercising sound judgment helps executives stay focused on what matters most. What You'll Do • Own and optimize highly complex, fluid calendars for the Chief Legal Officer and a subset of their direct reports, balancing competing priorities, shifting business needs and requests from multiple senior stakeholders. • Exercise sound judgment in evaluating and triaging meeting requests, resolving scheduling conflicts and protecting executive time for the highest-impact priorities. • Partner closely with your executive to gather information, provide critical updates, and stay aligned on priorities across meetings and projects. • Respond to a wide range of requests for information and executive action, driving timely and thoughtful follow-through on action items, deadlines and recurring business processes. • Coordinate travel, expenses, and other executive logistics with a high degree of accuracy and responsiveness. • Provide occasional backup administrative support for the executive's direct reports to ensure continuity across the team and cross-functional leadership. • Build strong relationships across the organization while handling confidential information with diplomacy, discretion, and sound judgement. • Provide support on special projects and other executive-adjacent work as business needs evolve. What You'll Bring • Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field. • At least five years of experience supporting senior executives in a busy, high-growth, and fast-paced environment, with experience supporting C-level leaders strongly preferred. • Demonstrated success managing highly complex executive calendar involving competing priorities, multiple stakeholders, and frequent changes. • Experience with budget tracking, invoice processing, expense management and other administrative support tied to departmental operations. • Experience supporting executive operating rhythms such as leadership meetings, quarterly business reviews, board-facing preparation, or similar high-visibility forums. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with polished executive presence and the ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization • High attention to detail, strong follow-through and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to stay ahead of needs, take ownership, and confidently navigate unexpected challenges. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with working knowledge of video conferencing tools such as Zoom. • Ideal candidate with have experience working within a Legal department, law firm, or within a highly regulated context and is able to bring familiarity and expertise to these operating rhythms and norms. #LI-SW1 We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role. The US base salary range for this full-time position is 81,600.00 USD - 102,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

About DraftKings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.
Learn more about DraftKings
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$4.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$577.9 million
Revenue
$292.3 million
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