Executive Assistant

Harvey

$119K — $140K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years supporting senior executives in high-growth, externally-facing environments, especially C-level leaders
  • Proven management of complex stakeholder ecosystems
  • Strong judgment and prioritization skills for effective decision-making
  • Experience with high-volume, complex inbox management
  • Track record of developing and implementing scalable systems for executive engagement
  • Exceptional communication skills for drafting high-level messaging
  • High professionalism and executive presence with influence across organizational levels
  • Calm and resourceful under pressure, bringing structure to ambiguity
  • Highly proactive with an ownership mindset and commitment to action
  • Trustworthy when handling sensitive information.

Responsibilities

  • Drive executive leverage through effective calendar management and prioritization
  • Act as a strategic gatekeeper for inbound requests, prioritizing effectively
  • Optimize the executive request workflow for clarity and efficiency
  • Coordinate communication across internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Manage end-to-end meeting preparation, including agenda setting and follow-ups
  • Synthesize information and draft effective communications for the executive
  • Plan and execute logistics for high-impact travel efficiently
  • Support strategic projects with organization and action-oriented follow-through
  • Contribute to polished presentations and executive communications
  • Maintain a calm and positive presence across relationships
  • Handle sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to support senior leaders in a strategic role
  • Collaborative and fast-paced work environment
  • Exposure to high-stakes decision-making processes
  • Chance to enhance professional skills through dynamic responsibilities
  • Contributions directly tied to meaningful business outcomes.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

Harvey is seeking highly strategic, proactive, and polished Executive Assistants to support senior leaders across the organization. This role goes beyond traditional administrative support. It requires a partner who can help maximize executive leverage, operate as a force multiplier, and bring structure to a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting senior, externally-facing executives and is comfortable navigating complex stakeholder landscapes across internal teams, customers, and partners. This person exercises strong judgment, is highly discerning about priorities, and plays an active role in ensuring the executive's time is deployed against the highest-impact opportunities. They bring a track record of owning executive time, acting as an opinionated partner, and helping drive meaningful business outcomes.

What You'll Do
  • Drive executive leverage by owning and optimizing complex calendars, ensuring time is allocated to the highest-priority internal and external engagements
  • Act as a strategic gatekeeper for the executive's time, triaging inbound requests, prioritizing effectively, and making clear, confident recommendations on where attention is needed
  • Operate and scale the executive request flow, bringing structure and clarity across a wide set of stakeholders and ensuring efficient intake, prioritization, and follow-through
  • Serve as a central point of coordination across internal teams and external stakeholders, ensuring communication is seamless, proactive, and high quality while maintaining strong relationships
  • Own meeting preparation end to end, including agenda setting, materials development, and driving follow-ups to ensure strong execution and momentum
  • Manage complex inboxes and communications, helping synthesize information, draft responses, and ensure the executive is consistently well-prepared and ahead by surfacing key decisions and recommending actions
  • Plan and execute high-impact travel and logistics with a focus on efficiency, foresight, and minimizing friction
  • Support strategic projects and initiatives, bringing organization, follow-through, and a bias for action
  • Contribute to presentations and materials, ensuring executive communications are clear, polished, and aligned to priorities
  • Act as a steady, calm, and positive presence across a broad set of relationships, helping maintain alignment and trust
  • Handle highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
What You Have
  • 3+ years of experience supporting senior executives, ideally in a high-growth, externally-facing environment, with a strong preference for experience supporting C-level or equivalent leaders
  • Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder ecosystems, including senior external partners and cross-functional internal teams
  • Strong judgment and prioritization skills, with the ability to triage competing demands and make clear, confident decisions on behalf of the executive
  • Experience managing high-volume, complex inboxes and communications, with a focus on creating leverage and clarity while proactively driving decision-making
  • Track record of building and operating scalable systems for managing requests, workflows, and executive engagement
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to draft executive-level messaging and engage credibly with senior stakeholders
  • High degree of professionalism and executive presence, with the ability to influence and build trust across all levels of an organization
  • Calm, steady, and solutions-oriented under pressure, with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations
  • Highly proactive and resourceful, with a strong ownership mindset and bias for action
  • Discreet and trustworthy when handling sensitive information


Compensation Range

$119,000 - $140,000 USD

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