Jobs · Administrative · California

Executive Assistant

Playground Global · Palo Alto, CA · 2 mo ago
HybridAdministrative$140k–$180k/yrFull-time

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic partner to senior leaders across the firm, driving alignment, execution, and communication across key initiatives while anticipating needs and ensuring priorities move forward efficiently.
  • Provide high-level executive support, managing complex calendars, competing priorities, and shifting demands while optimizing executive effectiveness.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with founders, portfolio company executives, investors, board members, executive search partners, candidates, and prospective founders, representing the firm with professionalism and discretion.
  • Cook up and maintain seamless scheduling and logistics for domestic and international meetings across multiple time zones, balancing competing priorities and sensitivities.
  • Act as an extension of the executives you support by maintaining visibility into priorities, attending key meetings as needed, driving follow-through on action items, and supporting execution of strategic initiatives.
  • Streamline communication and coordinate efforts across teams to support firm-wide objectives.
  • Serve as a trusted ambassador for the firm, ensuring a high-quality, welcoming, and professional experience for all founders, investors, candidates, portfolio company leaders, and external stakeholders.

Additional Experience

  • Experience supporting recruiting, executive search, or talent-related initiatives, including interview coordination, candidate communications, and stakeholder management.

Skills & Traits

  • Exceptional judgment with the ability to make sound, independent decisions in fast-moving and often ambiguous environments.
  • Highly organized with strong operational rigor and the ability to manage multiple complex priorities simultaneously.
  • Proactive and anticipatory mindset, consistently thinking several steps ahead to support executive effectiveness.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently and professionally with founders, investors, executives, and external partners.
  • High degree of discretion and integrity when handling sensitive or confidential information.
  • Calm under pressure, with the ability to navigate shifting priorities, tight timelines, and competing stakeholder needs.
  • Strong relationship-building skills and a service-oriented mindset grounded in trust, responsiveness, and professionalism.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-expectation environments such as venture capital, startups, or high-growth organizations.
  • Resourceful and solutions-oriented, able to resolve issues quickly and independently.

Pay

The annual base salary range is $140,000 to $180,000. The base salary will depend on numerous factors such as experience, knowledge, and skills.

Schedule

This role requires 5 days per week in office.

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