Executive Assistant & Chief of Staff to the CEO

Job description

Aardvark Studios is looking for a highly capable, calm, proactive, and trustworthy Executive Assistant & Chief of Staff to support our CEO and help keep the business running at a high level. This is not a traditional assistant role. This person will act as the CEO’s right hand and a force multiplier for the business. You will manage competing priorities, protect the CEO’s time aggressively, help create structure in a fast-moving environment, and ensure important details do not fall through the cracks. You will help remove the CEO as a bottleneck by making decisions, building systems, pushing things forward, and helping the business operate more efficiently and with less chaos. This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who thrives on ownership, discretion, follow-through, and becoming indispensable. The right person for this role is calm under pressure, emotionally intelligent, highly organized, proactive, assertive when needed, and able to manage a fast-moving CEO and business without becoming overwhelmed. This role is not for everyone. It is best suited for someone who takes pride in being the person who can handle complexity, protect others, solve problems, manage detail...