Executive Assistant

Chester&Aldgate Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Chester&Aldgate Ltd in London is seeking their very first Executive Assistant to support the CEO and founding leadership in a fast-moving AI startup. You’ll help build the company up from the ground, with no established processes or playbook and a need for hands-on problem solving.

They’re looking for an exceptionally bright, resourceful and energetic individual who thrives in ambiguity and is ready to write the office systems, coordinate investor meetings, assist with recruitment and ensure

Qualifications

• Solid, recent experience supporting founders, C-suite executives or senior leaders, ideally in tech, VC, PE or another fast-moving environment.
• Start-up culture: comfortable with ambiguity and building processes from scratch.
• A strong, resourceful mindset with high energy and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO and founding leadership with complex diaries, travel, meetings and priorities.
• Coordinate investor meetings and keep things moving behind the scenes.
• Assist with recruiting and growing the team.

Skills

Diary management

Executive support

Calendar coordination

Travel arrangements

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Organisational skills

Job description

We're looking for an absolute superstar. No ego. No job too small. And a HUGE appetite for building something from scratch!

And when we say from scratch, we really mean it.

We're working with a seriously exciting, incredibly early-stage AI start-up founded by researchers from some of the world's leading AI labs (think Google, Microsoft) and backed by top-tier venture investors.

The ambition is enormous. The team is 30+ and they're growing with some very exciting new hires in the pipeline.

They're looking for their very first EA. Someone who gets genuinely excited about rolling up their sleeves, figuring things out, making things happen and helping build a company from the ground up.

This is not your typical EA role. There are no established processes, no big support functions and certainly no neatly written playbook.You’ll be helping to write it.

What you'll be doing:

A bit of everything! And that's exactly the point.

• Supporting the CEO and founding leadership team with complex diaries, travel, meetings and priorities
• Coordinating investor meetings and keeping things moving behind the scenes
• Helping recruit brilliant people and grow the team
• Setting up an office, putting systems and processes in place and generally making things work
• Getting stuck into whatever needs doing, from high-level executive support to the most basic operational tasks
• Spotting problems, finding solutions and bringing order to the inevitable start-up chaos

Someone exceptionally bright, resourceful, energetic and completely unflappable.

You’ll have solid, recent experience supporting founders, C-suite executives or senior leaders, ideally in tech, VC, PE or another fast-moving environment.

But here's what's really important:

You have absolutely no ego. You're just as happy booking a flight as you are building an office, dealing with investors or assembling the furniture.

You're curious, commercially aware, brilliantly organised and naturally ten steps ahead. You don't wait to be told what to do. You see what needs doing and get on with it.

Start-up experience would be fantastic, but it's your attitude, judgement, energy and willingness to get your hands dirty that will really set you apart.

This is a rare opportunity to join an ambitious AI business at the very beginning, work alongside some seriously impressive people and help shape what it becomes.

If you love structure, predictability and a clearly defined job description, this definitely isn't for you....but if the idea of building something from the ground up sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you!