Executive Assistant

RDI•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role reports to the CEO. The primary goal is to help the CEO stay close to the right details in a growing company. This person will convert the CEO's instinct, attention, standards, and urgency into action for the rest of the team. The focus is still CEO time — but the work isn't saving it with admin tasks. It's leveraging it. The main focus is to maximize the return the company gets on the CEO's time. That means getting the CEO involved where it's critical for the company and handling it when it's not — in all cases, protecting the company's resources, reputation, and team the way the CEO would. This problem spans complexity. It runs from handling a door vendor to making time for a $5 million client. You'll manage the CEO's attention across clients, board, employees, vendors, and prospects. That means managing the calendar, and also using it strategically to achieve the company's goals. Eventually, you become the CEO's operating interpreter: close enough to understand the founder's instincts, disciplined enough to separate signal from noise, and trusted enough to move the organization without becoming a shadow executive. This role will grow in responsibility as the business grows, as the demands on the CEO's time expand, and as you master accountabilities and level up your skills and scope. It will expand into a larger operations role.

Requirements

Good judgment
Fast
Comfortable being the one who closes the loop
Don't need credit for your work to find it satisfying
Can leverage technology, vendors, and people to put things in action quickly
Problem solver
Worked alongside other high-performers and consistently been the one founders or principals asked for.

Responsibilities

Organize the CEO's operating cadence — meetings, agendas, pre-reads, clear outcomes, named owners. Skip-level access without changing reporting lines.
Track commitments and open loops across the company. Founder signals routed to named owners.
Draft communications on behalf of the CEO.
Propose new initiatives, process changes, and operating standards.
Leverage the CEO's time by accepting, rejecting, and reshaping meetings against stated priorities.
Manage the CEO's attention across clients, board, employees, vendors, and prospects.
Coordinate the installation of new lab equipment or running a recruiting search.