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Executive Assistant to the CEO

Closer Look$90K — $120K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in a senior support role
  • Strong governance and Board-level experience
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
  • High discretion and sound judgement
  • Comfortable influencing senior leaders and holding stakeholders accountable
  • Strong organizational, project management, and follow-through capability
  • Strong PowerPoint skills and experience with AI tools integration

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted extension of the CEO, aligning strategic focus
  • Manage a complex global diary across multiple time zones
  • Support the CEO in driving alignment across the Global Leadership Team (GLT)
  • Design and manage the schedule and agenda of GLT meetings
  • Articulate and track strategic priorities and key milestones
  • Monitor progress against objectives and proactively highlight risks
  • Facilitate alignment across functions and enable cross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • 401K plan with employer match contribution up to 4%
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible working arrangements including remote work
  • 20 vacation days and one personal well-being day
  • Enhanced family leave and fertility policies
  • Access to employee assistance program for counseling
  • Continuous opportunities for professional development and global mobility
Full Job Description
About the role

As Executive Assistant to the CEO, you'll play a key role in helping our CEO stay focused, connected and ahead of priorities. This is a highly visible and senior role where you'll manage a busy schedule, support smooth communication with the Global Leadership Team (GLT) and wider organization, and help keep important governance processes and strategic projects on track. It's much more than diary management - you'll be trusted to coordinate Board activity, support leadership meetings and bring structure, pace and clarity to the CEO's day-to-day priorities.

What You'll Do

What You'll Do

  • Act as a trusted extension of the CEO, reinforcing expectations, standards, and strategic focus
  • Strategically manage a complex global diary across multiple time zones, balancing internal, external, Board and leadership priorities.
  • Support the CEO in driving alignment, accountability, and delivery across the Global Leadership Team (GLT)
  • Partner with the CEO to design and manage the cadence of GLT meetings, including agenda setting, prioritization, and pre-reads
  • Ensure strategic priorities are clearly articulated, tracked, and regularly reviewed, including key milestones and owners
  • Monitor progress against agreed objectives and proactively flag risks, delays, or interdependencies
  • Follow up with GLT members to ensure actions are delivered on time and to the required standard
  • Support preparation for key leadership offsites, strategy sessions, and planning cycles
  • Facilitate alignment across functions by identifying overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration
  • Build trusted relationships across the organization and externally to enable seamless coordination and stakeholder alignment.
  • Help drive clarity around decision rights, ownership, and accountability across the leadership team.


About You

  • Ideally 10+ years experience in a senior support role
  • Highly proactive with exceptional anticipation and forward planning skills


  • Strong governance and Board-level experience


  • Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels


  • Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills


  • High discretion and sound judgement


  • Comfortable influencing senior leaders and holding stakeholders to account


  • Strong organisational, project management, and follow-through capability


  • Strong PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create professional decks and continue building AI-enabled efficiencies.


  • Experience using AI and LLM tools, integrating them into standard workflows, and building AI-enabled processes around the latest technologies.


What we can offer

You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.

Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.

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