Executive Assistant (Remote, UK/EU, £38k-£43k/year)

Responsibilities

• Calendar management: Own and manage Alex’s diary and calendar. Protect focused work and create space for strategic priorities. Make sensible scheduling decisions using your knowledge of Alex’s priorities, resolve clashes proactively, and account for preparation, travel time, location, time zones and the purpose of each meeting. Challenge or reorganise meetings where there is a better use of Alex’s time, and make sure Alex has the right preparation and information before important meetings.
• Inbox and communication: Assist the Managing Director with maintaining an organised and efficient inbox, including drafting replies or responding directly on his behalf at times. Effectively triage emails, understand possible courses of action, and present information to Alex in a way that lets him quickly provide a batch of responses that unblock you. Chase outstanding replies, actions and commitments, and build templates and systems for recurring email patterns so that important messages and obligations do not disappear.
• Briefings: Prepare a clear, concise morning briefing for Alex at the start of each day before he logs on (8.30am uk), giving him an overview of his schedule, priorities, deadlines, outstanding decisions and follow-up. Monitor his relevant communication channels, use judgement to identify what needs his attention, and make sure he is reminded of important to-dos, commitments and preparation ahead of time. These briefings are sometimes also required in the afternoon.
• Day-to-day tasks: The remit of this role is not “follow this clearly defined process every time”, but “take this mostly finished project and figure out how to proactively take it to completion”. These tasks might touch project management, writing/editing, triaging information, posting on LinkedIn, research, drafting communications and ensuring action is taken. You’ll need to work out the information, stakeholders, decisions and follow-up required, rather than waiting for every task to arrive as a fully documented process.
• Meetings: Prepare for meetings, including ensuring slides, agendas and internal notes are prepared. Your goal is to ensure we utilise meeting time most effectively and are able to put our best foot forward. Use approved AI tools to capture and summarise meetings where appropriate, then check the output for accuracy and missing nuance. Extract decisions, actions, owners and deadlines; create follow-up tasks and communications; and make sure agreed actions are completed. This is about excellent preparation and follow-through, rather than traditional minute-taking as an end in itself.
• Travel: Coordinate complex travel for Alex. Prepare clear itineraries and manage flights, hotels, transport, meetings, dinners and contingencies.
• Occasional personal administration: This is a business-focused role and the overwhelming responsibility is with the business. You may be occasionally asked to take care of personal admin for Alex where this meaningfully protects his time.
• Support to Anna and the wider business
• Finance administration: This is an important part of the role. Support Anna with Ellipsis's day-to-day finance administration. This includes filing expenses, collecting invoices and receipts, preparing client invoices for review, gathering freelancer and supplier invoices, preparing payment information for approval, and chasing late client payments.
• People and team support: Support Anna with people administration. Keep HR records up to date, prepare routine paperwork, help coordinate onboarding and offboarding, track key dates such as probation reviews and contract renewals, and support recruitment logistics - scheduling interviews, managing candidate communications and keeping the pipeline tidy. You'll also help create a positive remote-team experience through thoughtful internal communications, recognition, celebrations and team rituals.

Requirements

• 2-4 years experience in an Executive Assistant or similar role; similar roles might include Personal Assistant, Team Assistant, Business Support Coordinator, Office Manager, Project Manager
• Impeccable English written and spoken communication and editorial skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Experience working remotely full time
• Availability to work 8am - 5pm UK time (or earlier)
• AI native: Confident using approved AI tools and automations to research, draft, summarise, organise and streamline administrative work. Able to write effective prompts, build repeatable workflows, review outputs critically for accuracy, tone and confidentiality, and recognise when human judgement or escalation is required.

Benefits

• This is a full-time, 100% remote role (UK/EU based). Work from home, or the beach!
• 28 days of paid holiday
• An additional 1 paid holiday day a year with each year of tenure, up to a maximum of 5 additional days
• 4-day work week, once a month (instead of local bank holidays seeing as we are based across the world)
• Regular team retreats; last was Istanbul, previously in Edinburgh, Oxford, Madrid, and Budapest
• Support for your growth, whether that’s upskilling, training, or exploring the direction you want to develop in
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, and sick pay