Strategic Executive Assistant to the Chief Design Officer

On; Zürich; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

On is redefining the future of sportswear and rapidly expanding. This role supports the Chief Design Officer and leadership team in Zürich, managing calendars, travel, expenses, and offsite logistics to ensure smooth executive operations.

Ideal candidates bring several years of executive support experience in a product company, with strong independent thinking, project management, and fluent English and German communication across global teams.

Qualifications

• Several years of relevant work experience, ideally as executive assistant or in a similar position supporting key leadership members.
• Strong sense of independent thinking, and entrepreneurial, pro-active decision-making under pressure.
• Project management skills, attention to details, managing timelines as well as collaboration in high pressure.
• Excellence in creative problem solving, growth mindset and a can-do spirit.
• Excellent communication skills (english fluency both verbally and written) and ability to build strong relationships.
• Experience in drafting communications to large audiences.
• Ideally you bring experience working for a product company.
• Excitement about working at the intersection of multiple key intersects of a fast growing company.
• Capable of leveraging digital tools and systems to support your work.
• You speak fluent English and German.

Responsibilities

• Your engagement will enable our Chief Design Officer and his leadership team operate effectively and efficiently: you prioritise, anticipate and solve problems starting at calendar, managing Coupa/expenses and ending at strategic offsite support for the function (e.g. location booking and logistics, collaborating with teams to draft agendas and quietly implementing a no-frills systematic approach).
• You shape and enable cultural moments like functional town halls, orchestrate contributions during global events and support in driving other strategic announcements and executive communications
• You navigate the day-to-day work by prioritisation, time management, and steady optimisation of systems and processes for effective collaboration of the CPO management team
• You will be leading or co-leading certain cross-functional projects, could vary in terms of complexity and/or time.

Skills

Executive support

Calendar & travel coordination

Project management

Communication skills

Bilingual English/German

Coupa experience

Tools

Coupa

Job description

On is redefining the future of sportswear and rapidly expanding. This role supports the Chief Design Officer and leadership team in Zürich, managing calendars, travel, expenses, and offsite logistics to ensure smooth executive operations.

Ideal candidates bring several years of executive support experience in a product company, with strong independent thinking, project management, and fluent English and German communication across global teams.