Senior Executive Assistant
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Senior Executive Assistant

We’re looking for a Senior Executive Assistant to provide high-impact support to our Chief Legal Officer. This role goes well beyond traditional calendar and inbox management, you’ll serve as a strategic partner to your executive, owning complex operational workflows, driving cross-functional coordination, and ensuring the legal department runs smoothly behind the scenes.

This is a full-time, hybrid position 2 days per week in our Denver, CO, Oakland, CA or NYC, NY offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

What You’ll Do Executive Support

  • Calendar Management: Keep the CLO’s calendar organized and conflict-free. Field and prioritize scheduling requests in alignment with executive priorities, adapting swiftly to changing circumstances.
  • Meeting Support: Schedule meetings, prepare agendas and briefing materials, and take notes with actionable summaries.
  • Travel Logistics: Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and travel documentation, with attention to preferences, policies, and cost-efficiency.
  • Inbox Management: Triage and organize email inboxes, draft responses, and surface priority items on behalf of the CLO.

Departmental Support

  • Document Creation & Editing: Draft, edit, and enhance documents and presentations with clear language and visual appeal.
  • Expense Reporting: Manage expense submissions, prompt timely receipt gathering from the CLO, and submit reports accurately and on time.
  • Internal Communications: Draft correspondence, team announcements, and Slack messages on behalf of Legal leadership.
  • Ad Hoc Tasks: Handle one-off administrative requests such as document retrieval, research, meeting setup, and presentation preparation.

Project & Program Management

  • Task and Workflow Management: Use task management tools to track follow-ups, share updates, and keep work flowing across executive priorities.
  • Legal Operations Partnership: Support cross-functional projects such as process improvements and operational tracking in coordination with Legal Ops.
  • SOPs and Playbooks: Create and maintain standard operating procedures and playbooks for repeatable processes to ensure continuity and scalability.

Team & Culture Building

  • Offsites and Events: Plan and execute department-wide offsites and events end-to-end, including venue sourcing, contract negotiation, agendas, travel, meals, logistics, and on-the-ground coordination.
  • Team Engagement: Organize team events, gifting moments, and employee recognition initiatives that foster connection and positivity within the Legal org.
  • All-Hands Production: Own and produce monthly Legal All-Hands meetings, including agenda creation, deck management, host recruitment, and post-meeting recaps.
  • Culture Champion: Monitor organizational health, surface engagement issues, and coordinate milestone celebrations.

Skills We’re Looking For

  • 7+ years of experience supporting C-suite or VP-level executives, preferably in a high-growth tech environment
  • Strong project management instincts—you build systems, document processes, and think about scalability without being asked
  • Excellent written communication skills, including experience drafting executive correspondence and internal comms
  • Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action; you figure things out and propose solutions rather than waiting for direction
  • Familiarity with AI tools and a willingness to adopt new technologies to improve workflows and efficiency

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