Position SummaryWe are seeking an experienced
Senior Executive Assistant to act as an Executive Business Partner to support a senior C-level executive. This role serves as a strategic extension of the executive, operating at the center of executive leadership, decision-making, and organizational execution. While maintaining responsibility for executive operations, including calendar management, travel coordination, and meeting logistics, the Executive Business Partner will play a critical role in driving alignment, facilitating communication, and ensuring follow-through on key business priorities.
The ideal candidate is a highly trusted advisor with exceptional business acumen, sound judgment, and the ability to anticipate needs before they arise. This individual will serve as the executive's right hand-helping translate priorities into action, managing critical communications, debriefing meetings, tracking commitments, and creating leverage across the organization in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as a strategic partner and trusted extension of the executive, helping maximize effectiveness, focus, and execution across business priorities.
- Manage a complex and ever-changing calendar, travel arrangements, and meeting logistics with exceptional attention to detail and foresight.
- Prepare the executive for meetings by providing briefings, background materials, key talking points, and actionable insights.
- Attend select meetings, capture key decisions and action items, debrief the executive on outcomes, and drive accountability for follow-through.
- Act as a central communication hub between the executive, leadership team, and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment and timely information flow.
- Partner closely with the Chief of Staff and senior leaders to coordinate priorities, initiatives, and executive-level deliverables.
- Draft, review, and manage executive communications, presentations, and business materials on behalf of the executive.
- Monitor organizational priorities, identify risks or competing demands, and proactively recommend solutions to optimize executive effectiveness.
- Drive cross-functional coordination and ensure critical projects, decisions, and commitments remain on track.
- Handle highly confidential information with the utmost discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of experience supporting C-level executives, with increasing responsibility as a strategic partner, Executive Business Partner, Executive Assistant, or Chief of Staff-level support professional.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted advisor and extension of an executive leader.
- Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level written, verbal, and interpersonal communication.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand organizational priorities and connect day-to-day activities to broader business objectives.
- Proven experience managing complex priorities, competing demands, and confidential matters with professionalism and discretion.
- Highly organized, proactive, and capable of operating independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience driving meeting preparation, follow-up, action tracking, and executive accountability processes.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration tools, and executive productivity platforms.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience partnering directly with C-level executives within high-growth, fast-paced, and rapidly evolving organizations.
- Previous experience working within an Executive Office, Chief of Staff organization, or executive leadership team environment.
- Experience supporting executive communications, board-level materials, strategic planning processes, or cross-functional business initiatives.
- Demonstrated success navigating organizational complexity and influencing outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Background in technology, software, SaaS, private equity-backed, or similarly high-performance environments.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
