Paradigm
Executive Assistant
Washington, DC. Posted 2 months ago
The role
This person will provide day-to-day executive assistant support to several executives and their extended teams. They will perform administrative tasks, manage complex schedules, and handle travel coordination.
What you will do
- Being the gatekeeper for executives and the first communication stop
- Performing core administrative tasks like preparing meeting materials, chasing signatures, and handling expenses
- Strategic and proactive management of complex schedules using Google Calendar
- Ownership of ad hoc special projects like offsite events
- Understanding firm-internal AI tools and developing own tools where appropriate
- Travel coordination including air, ground, hotel and all accommodations
- Working cohesively with the rest of the admin team
- Light office management
Required qualifications
- Relevant work experience
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Diplomatic and professional demeanor
- Fluent in Google office platforms
- Exceptional team player
- Extreme open-mindedness
- Grit: the ability to adapt and overcome in rapidly changing situations
- Great listening skills
- Clear and concise communication
- Highly curious
- Fast learner
- An overall positive attitude
Nice to have
- direct executive admin support with experience supporting multiple leaders
About the company
Paradigm is an investment firm focused on frontier technologies across the globe, with over $11 billion in assets under management. Founded in 2018, the firm uses a research-driven approach to accelerate the progress of frontier technology.