Senior Executive Assistant / Chief of Staff

Salary – Fully Remote Work From Home Role
This is a Senior Role. Pay based on experience.

Role
We’re hiring a Senior Executive Assistant / Chief of Staff to help drive real estate operations alongside an international executive. This is a mission-critical role that requires sharp intellect, discretion, and extreme organization. You’ll be at the heart of operations, driving priorities forward, and helping manage a high-functioning team.

Your primary goals and KPIs are:

  • Coordinate task follow-through across the team
  • Stay on top of urgent matters, providing timely solutions and maintaining team alignment
  • Ensure effective coordination with internal teams such as legal and accounting, as well as with external institutions and clients to support smooth operations
  • Oversee and organize documentation, ensuring records are properly stored and updated

Responsibilities:

  • Manage task follow-up, maintaining a rigorous follow-up on all task deadlines to ensure consistent execution
  • Coordinate team workflow and priorities, reviewing team tasking, leading weekly meetings, updating priorities, and ensuring deadlines and dependencies are aligned with business goals
  • Assist with bookkeeping by organizing and filing financial and official documents
  • Ensure internal coordination to support timely and compliant compensation for contractors and staff
  • Liaise with legal, accounting, and regulatory bodies
  • Visit properties once or twice per year to support on-site oversight
  • Eventually support special projects by conducting research, gathering market data, coordinating in person events, and helping assemble the right teams to execute new initiatives

Requirements:

  • 10+ years experience as Executive Assistant or Office Manager in an international setting
  • Languages: Fluent English; highly preferred German; French and Italian a plus
  • Proficient with MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Dropbox, and Todoist
  • Able to read a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet
  • Comfortable with tracking accounts receivable and payable, and reviewing them against contracts to ensure accuracy and timely payment
  • Financially literate, highly organized, detail-oriented
  • Excellent communication skills (Phone, Written, Zoom)
  • Real estate knowledge is highly valued to assist with preparing lease documents, reviewing insurance coverage, and coordinating rent payments

Location
Remote

Availability
Full Time – 40 hours/week, flexible scheduling