Executive Assistant (Part-time)

hideout; Norwich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A tech startup is looking for a proactive personal assistant to support the CEO in Norwich. Responsibilities include managing calendars, bookings, and various administrative tasks. The ideal candidate is resourceful, organised, and can handle a dynamic environment. This role starts at £14/hour for 16 hours a week, with potential to grow into a full-time position with equity options.

Benefits

Equity opportunities

Flexible working hours

Dynamic work environment

Qualifications

• Must be able to manage calendars, travel, and communications effectively.
• High autonomy is important; ability to operate without much direction.
• Experience in admin tasks and bookkeeping preferred.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate tasks and handle them without explicit instructions.
• Manage various administrative tasks like bookings and company obligations.
• Shield the founder from distractions and filter important information.

Skills

Resourceful

Proactive

Organised

Problem-solving

Trustworthy

Job description

Overview

You'll be supporting the founder & CEO of Hyperliminal, a VC-backed tech startup building an online virtual world, based in Norwich. You'll be the 7th employee.

Details:

• Starting rate: £14/hour
• Starting hours: equivalent to 2 days a week (16 hours/week) to start, with scope to become full-time depending on impact & need
• Place of work: NR3 (near Norwich Playhouse, ~5 minutes walk from town)
• Hiring process: pass screening (this form) > in-person interview > hired
• Equity: everybody who works here owns a piece of the company; you will be given employee stock options

Responsibilities

• Anticipate what needs doing and handle it without it being explicitly spelled out
• Manage calendars, travel, errands, communications, follow-ups
• Perform and manage various admin tasks like light bookkeeping, company obligations, people ops
• Keep me organised, on time, and focused
• Shield me from noise, filter what matters, escalate only the right stuff
• Find creative, scrappy solutions to random problems, and then execute on them

Things you should know

• This is not a “task list” job. It's figure it out, make it happen, move fast.
• Sometimes you'll be booking travel, other times untangling messy logistics or finding a contractor at midnight
• You'll have access to a lot of my world. I need someone I can rely on completely
• High autonomy: you'll often be operating without much direction

You're probably perfect for this if

• You're insanely resourceful, high-agency, and proactive
• You get energy from solving problems and making someone else's life easier
• You can handle stress and chaos easily
• You're organised but also scrappy
• People find you kind, calming, and trustworthy
• You wanna be involved in something immensely fun, that could impact millions of people, with probably some of the smartest people you've ever met (our team is cracked)
• You're clever and creative

This is NOT right for you if

• You always need to be told what to do
• You wait for permission instead of taking initiative
• You get easily overwhelmed, flustered, or defensive
• You are not prepared to occasionally work weird hours at fairly short notice or travel internationally if needed (we take each other's time very seriously here and are very respectful of it, but sometimes things need to get done at a random time and we're all chill with that on occasion)
• You wanna work from home