Executive Assistant
Welcome to Million Dollar Baby Co.!
We started in 1990 and are proudly family-owned and operated in Los Angeles. Since then, MDB Co. has grown to 7 distinct brands of children's furnishings ranging in style, aesthetic, and price point, while carrying some of the industry's most eco-conscious and award-winning designs. Our family of brands include: Babyletto, DaVinci, Nursery Works, Namesake, Monogram by Namesake, and Carter's by DaVinci. We can be found in mass retailers like Target and Amazon to your local mom-and-pop baby shop to specialty retailers like Pottery Barn Kids and Crate and Barrel.
At MDB Co., we credit all of our success to our mighty team of more than 110 smart, fun, and diverse individuals who make an impact every day! Our team members are our #1 priority and we partner with exceptional suppliers and retailers from around the world who share our values.
Lastly, we are proud that we have been awarded Great Place to Work in '21, '22, '23, Built in LA Best of List '22, '23, Fortune Best Places to Work '23. It's truly an amazing place to work!
We welcome you to learn more about our company and our fantastic team.
Teddy Fong
CEO
About the job:
As an Executive Assistant, you will support our c-suite executives with day-to-day administrative tasks, schedule management, and other culture building projects and research. A positive can-do attitude, the ability to work cross functionally, and resourcefulness are crucial, as is a high level of professional integrity and confidentiality. If you love working with people and are self-motivated, proactive, flexible and organized, this is a role in which you will thrive! A creative individual that has an eye for presentation design is preferred but not required.
What you'll be doing:
- Anticipate needs and provide executive administrative support
- Manage scheduling and calendars
- Collate regular reports and summaries of articles
- Manage and respond to brand inboxes
- Assist with meeting setup, note taking, and follow-ups, as needed
- Develop presentation materials focused on aggregating input from team members and creating nice visuals with immaculate formatting
- Light project management, as needed
- Conduct ad hoc assignments with many requiring the use of PowerPoint and Excel
- Manage expense reports and invoice approvals
- Plan team building activities to engender a strong organizational and team culture
- Create presentations using PowerPoint
- Contributing to team projects and events as required, including occasional presence in the office beyond our standard in-office hybrid schedule on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and potential availability for weekend assignments
What you bring to the table:
- Excellent organization, planning, time management, and problem-solving skills
- Strong team player with a terrific work ethic and an ever-positive, flexible, get-it-done attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- General tech-savviness is a huge plus
- Experience with designing aesthetically pleasing PowerPoint slides
- Demonstrated project management skills with a creative approach to problem solving and event planning
- A high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information, and professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company is critical
- The individual in this role must understand business priorities, demonstrate the ability to proactively anticipate needs and drive improvements
- Superior attention to detail, the ability to meet tight deadlines, great organizational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple critical requests across global teams and time zones
Our benefits:
- 100% of your health, dental and vision insurance monthly premiums paid by us!
- Flexible PTO because we respect the need for work/life harmony
- Hybrid schedule (3 days WFH)
- Company matching 401(k)
- Vacation reimbursement and health & wellness subsidy programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Matching charitable donations to the nonprofit organization of your choice
- Company-wide monthly celebrations - lunch is on us!
- Dog-friendly workplace, yes! You can bring your best friend to work
- Free MDB Co. swag + generous employee discount on products
At Million Dollar Baby Co., we’re passionate about diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our diversity, inclusion and equity committee (DIEC) strives to break barriers for minority communities, help educate the company on pertinent topics, and work to ensure equal opportunities for existing and potential employees. Since its formation in 2020, our committee has focused on multiple areas, some include hiring, community involvement and continuous learning about Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.
As an important step in coming together as safely as possible, Million Dollar Baby Co. requires all employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 as a condition of employment unless a medical or religious exemption is approved.
Million Dollar Baby Company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or recruitment process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
