Executive Business Partner

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Executive Assistant to act as an Executive Business Partner to support a senior C-level executive. This role serves as a strategic extension of the executive, operating at the center of executive leadership, decision-making, and organizational execution. While maintaining responsibility for executive operations, including calendar management, travel coordination, and meeting logistics, the Executive Business Partner will play a critical role in driving alignment, facilitating communication, and ensuring follow-through on key business priorities.

The ideal candidate is a highly trusted advisor with exceptional business acumen, sound judgment, and the ability to anticipate needs before they arise. This individual will serve as the executive’s right hand—helping translate priorities into action, managing critical communications, debriefing meetings, tracking commitments, and creating leverage across the organization in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner and trusted extension of the executive, helping maximize effectiveness, focus, and execution across business priorities.
• Manage a complex and ever-changing calendar, travel arrangements, and meeting logistics with exceptional attention to detail and foresight.
• Prepare the executive for meetings by providing briefings, background materials, key talking points, and actionable insights.
• Attend select meetings, capture key decisions and action items, debrief the executive on outcomes, and drive accountability for follow-through.
• Act as a central communication hub between the executive, leadership team, and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment and timely information flow.
• Partner closely with the Chief of Staff and senior leaders to coordinate priorities, initiatives, and executive-level deliverables.
• Draft, review, and manage executive communications, presentations, and business materials on behalf of the executive.
• Monitor organizational priorities, identify risks or competing demands, and proactively recommend solutions to optimize executive effectiveness.
• Drive cross-functional coordination and ensure critical projects, decisions, and commitments remain on track.
• Handle highly confidential information with the utmost discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience supporting C-level executives, with increasing responsibility as a strategic partner, Executive Business Partner, Executive Assistant, or Chief of Staff-level support professional.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted advisor and extension of an executive leader.
• Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level written, verbal, and interpersonal communication.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand organizational priorities and connect day-to-day activities to broader business objectives.
• Proven experience managing complex priorities, competing demands, and confidential matters with professionalism and discretion.
• Highly organized, proactive, and capable of operating independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience driving meeting preparation, follow-up, action tracking, and executive accountability processes.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration tools, and executive productivity platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering directly with C-level executives within high-growth, fast-paced, and rapidly evolving organizations.
• Previous experience working within an Executive Office, Chief of Staff organization, or executive leadership team environment.
• Experience supporting executive communications, board-level materials, strategic planning processes, or cross-functional business initiatives.
• Demonstrated success navigating organizational complexity and influencing outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Background in technology, software, SaaS, private equity-backed, or similarly high-performance environments.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.