Executive Assistant (to co-CEOs)

Job Description

Warby Parker is on the lookout for an Executive Assistant to support the company’s two co-CEOs and lead the company’s Executive Operations team. The go-getter in this role will be responsible for ensuring that the co-CEOs’ days are as productive and seamless as possible by maintaining their calendars, coordinating travel, tending to all other administrative tasks both big and small, and establishing administrative best practices that enable the team to succeed; the Executive Assistant to the co-CEOs will also manage a team of assistants. In addition to being ultra-organized, the Executive Assistant will thrive in this role if they’re an A+ communicator. If you’ve checked all those boxes, read on!

What you’ll do:

• Ensure a successful day-to-day schedule and workflow for Warby Parker’s co-CEOs, anticipating how to make each day as seamless as possible
• Manage the co-CEOs' calendars; schedule all meetings, engagements, and travel arrangements requested
• Maintain relationships with Warby Parker’s most important supporters, friends, and guests
• Execute co-CEO special projects and tasks and manage a team of three executive assistants
• Manage a team of 3 executive assistants
• Establish and maintain administrative best practices across the Executive Operations team
• Stay up-to-date on company happenings and priorities, keeping your finger on the pulse of the organization's needs
• Help to plan and organize Executive team offsites, large group meetings, and events

Who you are:

• Backed by 5+ years of experience in an Executive Operations function
• Incredibly detail-oriented and organized
• An optimistic, high-energy multitasker that stays cucumber-cool under pressure
• A skilled communicator (over email, in person, via carrier pigeon, all of it!)
• An experienced people manager who is naturally drawn to supporting others
• Proactive. Proactive. Proactive.
• Not on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)