Executive Assistant

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Human Resources

Harvey is seeking highly strategic, proactive, and polished Executive Assistants to support senior leaders. This role requires a partner who can help maximize executive leverage, operate as a force multiplier, and bring structure to a fast-moving, high-stakes environment. The ideal candidate has experience supporting senior, externally-facing executives and is comfortable navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive executive leverage by owning and optimizing complex calendars, ensuring time is allocated to the highest-priority internal and external engagements
  2. Act as a strategic gatekeeper for the executive’s time, triaging inbound requests, prioritizing effectively, and making clear, confident recommendations on where attention is needed
  3. Operate and scale the executive request flow, bringing structure and clarity across a wide set of stakeholders and ensuring efficient intake, prioritization, and follow-through
  4. Serve as a central point of coordination across internal teams and external stakeholders, ensuring communication is seamless, proactive, and high quality while maintaining strong relationships
  5. Own meeting preparation end to end, including agenda setting, materials development, and driving follow-ups to ensure strong execution and momentum

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience supporting senior executives
  • Experience supporting C-level or equivalent leaders
  • Manage complex stakeholder ecosystems
  • Strong judgment and prioritization skills
  • Manage high-volume, complex inboxes and communications
  • Build and operate scalable systems for managing requests, workflows, and executive engagement
  • Executive-level messaging
  • Professionalism and executive presence
  • Solutions-oriented under pressure
  • Proactive and resourceful
  • Discretion and trustworthiness

Nice to have

  • experience in a high-growth, externally-facing environment
  • support for C-level or equivalent leaders
  • experience supporting senior, externally-facing executives
  • comfortable navigating complex stakeholder landscapes
  • bring structure to a fast-moving, high-stakes environment
  • opinionated partner
  • help drive meaningful business outcomes
  • support strategic projects and initiatives
  • contribute to presentations and materials
  • steady, calm, and positive presence
  • handle highly sensitive and confidential information

What the JD emphasized

  • strong preference for experience supporting C-level or equivalent leaders
  • Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder ecosystems
  • Strong judgment and prioritization skills
  • Experience managing high-volume, complex inboxes and communications
  • Track record of building and operating scalable systems for managing requests, workflows, and executive engagement
  • High degree of professionalism and executive presence
  • Calm, steady, and solutions-oriented under pressure
  • Highly proactive and resourceful
  • Discreet and trustworthy when handling sensitive information