Executive Business Partner to the CEO

LED FastStart•Metairie, LA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Business Partner (EBP) to the Founder/CEO is a high-trust, high-discretion role designed to multiply the CEO's personal leverage by protecting and orchestrating his time, and stewarding the relationships that currently reside with him. This role is one of two in the Office of the CEO and directly supports the Founder & CEO, with exposure to the full executive team and key external partners. It requires a high-intensity approach, demanding long hours and the capacity to keep pace with a fast-moving founder-CEO. The EBP must quickly understand the CEO's thought process, priorities, communication style, and decision-making framework to effectively manage his time, prepare him for engagements, ensure follow-through on commitments, and manage the relationship systems essential for scaling the company beyond founder dependency. This role is business-minded, not purely administrative, and engages with the CEO's work as a capable peer.

Requirements

Five or more years of experience supporting senior executives, founders, CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs, or high-growth business leaders preferred.
Experience in executive operations, strategic support, business operations, professional services, construction, real estate, private equity, consulting, or entrepreneurial environments preferred.
Strong business acumen with the ability to understand company priorities, client relationships, capital relationships, governance needs, and strategic business discussions.
Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage high volume, competing priorities, shifting schedules, confidential information, and time-sensitive commitments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare executive-level briefs, follow-up notes, communications, and summaries.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex calendars, executive workflows, relationship systems, and sensitive communications.
High level of discretion, confidentiality, judgment, emotional intelligence, and professionalism.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-expectation, founder-led environment.
Ability to hold boundaries, protect executive priorities, and redirect requests with confidence and professionalism.
Strong technology proficiency, including Microsoft Office, calendar systems, CRM or relationship management tools, project tracking tools, and digital documentation platforms.
High capacity, built for intensity — operates at the pace of a relentless founder-CEO — absorbing high volume, switching context fast, and putting in the long hours the seat demands without letting quality slip.
Business-minded, not administratively trained — brings genuine business acumen and strategic fluency.
Highly organized — can simultaneously juggle multiple lines of business, ongoing projects, and deadlines with ease.
Fiercely disciplined with time — can hold a calendar gate against senior pressure and protect what matters.
Systems-minded about relationships — comfortable building and maintaining a pipeline of high-value connections.
Proactive to a fault — anticipates needs, closes loops before they surface, and lets nothing fall through.
Trusted with the most sensitive information — discretion and confidentiality are second nature.
Energized by a renegade, purpose-driven culture — believes in “sweep the floors,” “be a good ancestor,” and building something that outlives its founder.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Communications, Organizational Leadership, or related field preferred.
MBA or equivalent business experience strongly preferred.
MBA or equivalent business experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Protect and orchestrate the CEO's calendar and inbox.
Run an enforced “calendar gate” that ensures the founder's hours are dedicated to CEO-exclusive work such as vision, capital, culture, top relationships, and governance.
Prepare briefs before important CEO meetings, including context, relationship history, objectives, open items, talking points, and likely next steps.
Ensure the CEO enters strategic and external engagements with the right information, priorities, and context.
Capture actions, decisions, commitments, follow-up items, and relationship notes after meetings to ensure every meeting lands and every commitment is followed through.
Turn the marquee client, capital, and recruiting relationships that live in the founder's head into a shared, documented system that can be paired to successors and transferred over time.