Executive Assistant (Remote, UK/EU, £38k-£43k/year)

Ellipsis is emerging as a market leader in “GEO” for B2B technology companies. This is a high-impact, hands-on role in a fast-moving and ambitious agency.

The transition to AI search has put a lot of the SEO industry on the back foot. Ellipsis has always been consultative/strategic in our approach, we started building AI search products in 2021 on GPT-2, and thus this has been a time for us to thrive.

Today, we think we have a better understanding of AI search than almost anyone else. We have both the tracking product (built in-house), the data (~25 million AI answers for analysis, with more tracked weekly), and the execution end-to-end from strategy, to writing, to in-house design, to optimisation, and performance reporting.

We're looking for an Executive Assistant to help our Founder and Managing Director, Alex, and our Chief of Staff, Anna, make the best possible use of their time, while ensuring important work across the business is prepared, coordinated and followed through. You'll provide day-to-day EA support to Alex and work closely with Anna on wider business matters.

You will be the metronome that helps the business keep moving. Your work will be extremely high-impact, and you’ll be involved at a high level across the business. This is not a general operations role: your focus is excellent executive support, careful coordination and practical follow-through.

This position can be broken down as follows:

60% support to Alex.

40% support to Anna on wider business priorities, including finance and people administration.

Remote work requires trust, and in this role this will be absolutely critical. Trust is built over time, and accordingly your responsibilities will grow over time. Our hope is that you will prove indispensable to the business, but we understand it will take months to get to this place. Thus, below is a list of some of the responsibilities you’ll be able to grow into over time.

 

Support to Alex 

Your most important responsibility is helping Alex maximise his time, protect his attention, reduce unnecessary context-switching, and stay focused on the work where he adds the most value.

• Calendar management: Own and manage Alex’s diary and calendar. Protect focused work and create space for strategic priorities. Make sensible scheduling decisions using your knowledge of Alex’s priorities, resolve clashes proactively, and account for preparation, travel time, location, time zones and the purpose of each meeting. Challenge or reorganise meetings where there is a better use of Alex’s time, and make sure Alex has the right preparation and information before important meetings.
• Inbox and communication: Assist the Managing Director with maintaining an organised and efficient inbox, including drafting replies or responding directly on his behalf at times. Effectively triage emails, understand possible courses of action, and present information to Alex in a way that lets him quickly provide a batch of responses that unblock you. Chase outstanding replies, actions and commitments, and build templates and systems for recurring email patterns so that important messages and obligations do not disappear.
• Briefings: Prepare a clear, concise morning briefing for Alex at the start of each day before he logs on (8.30am uk), giving him an overview of his schedule, priorities, deadlines, outstanding decisions and follow-up. Monitor his relevant communication channels, use judgement to identify what needs his attention, and make sure he is reminded of important to-dos, commitments and preparation ahead of time. These briefings are sometimes also required in the afternoon. 
• Day-to-day tasks: The remit of this role is not “follow this clearly defined process every time”, but “take this mostly finished project and figure out how to proactively take it to completion”. These tasks might touch project management, writing/editing, triaging information, posting on LinkedIn, research, drafting communications and ensuring action is taken. You’ll need to work out the information, stakeholders, decisions and follow-up required, rather than waiting for every task to arrive as a fully documented process.
• Meetings: Prepare for meetings, including ensuring slides, agendas and internal notes are prepared. Your goal is to ensure we utilise meeting time most effectively and are able to put our best foot forward. Use approved AI tools to capture and summarise meetings where appropriate, then check the output for accuracy and missing nuance. Extract decisions, actions, owners and deadlines; create follow-up tasks and communications; and make sure agreed actions are completed. This is about excellent preparation and follow-through, rather than traditional minute-taking as an end in itself.
• Travel: Coordinate complex travel for Alex. Prepare clear itineraries and manage flights, hotels, transport, meetings, dinners and contingencies.
• Occasional personal administration: This is a business-focused role and the overwhelming responsibility is with the business. You may be occasionally asked to take care of personal admin for Alex where this meaningfully protects his time.

 

Support to Anna and the wider business 

You will report directly to Anna. Outside of supporting Alex, your role is to help her deliver wider team and business priorities.

• Finance administration: This is an important part of the role. Support Anna with Ellipsis's day-to-day finance administration. This includes filing expenses, collecting invoices and receipts, preparing client invoices for review, gathering freelancer and supplier invoices, preparing payment information for approval, and chasing late client payments. You'll keep records accurate and tidy, help manage the finance inbox, and flag discrepancies promptly. Anna and our accountants remain responsible for payroll, pensions, compliance and all accounting decisions - your role is to make sure the inputs are complete, accurate and on time.
• People and team support: Support Anna with people administration. Keep HR records up to date, prepare routine paperwork, help coordinate onboarding and offboarding, track key dates such as probation reviews and contract renewals, and support recruitment logistics - scheduling interviews, managing candidate communications and keeping the pipeline tidy. You'll also help create a positive remote-team experience through thoughtful internal communications, recognition, celebrations and team rituals.
• Company meet-ups: Organise Ellipsis’s company meet-ups, including researching and budgeting locations, booking travel and accommodation, and arranging restaurants, meeting rooms and activities. You’ll need to think carefully about cost, travel time, comfort, accessibility, dietary requirements and contingencies to create a productive and smooth trip for the whole team.
• Wider business priorities: Take on well-scoped work that helps Anna and the Senior Leadership Team move wider company priorities forward. This might include preparing information and options, coordinating input from colleagues, drafting communications, updating trackers, following up actions and taking a partly formed request through to a reliable conclusion.
• Travel and conference support: Support Anna, Alex and, occasionally, other Leadership Team members with conference travel. This includes booking flights and hotels, preparing clear itineraries, organising client dinners or agreed gifts, and looking for ways to make their time away from the business as effective as possible.
• Confidentiality and judgement: You will handle confidential information relating to the business and team. You must use discretion, keep records accurate and know when a sensitive issue, decision or uncertainty needs to be escalated to Anna.

Requirements: hard skills

• 2-4 years experience in an Executive Assistant or similar role; similar roles might include Personal Assistant, Team Assistant, Business Support Coordinator, Office Manager, Project Manager 
• Impeccable English written and spoken communication and editorial skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Experience working remotely full time
• Availability to work 8am - 5pm UK time (or earlier) 
• AI native: Confident using approved AI tools and automations to research, draft, summarise, organise and streamline administrative work. Able to write effective prompts, build repeatable workflows, review outputs critically for accuracy, tone and confidentiality, and recognise when human judgement or escalation is required. 

 

Requirements: soft skills 

• Fantastic communication skills: Remote work relies on mutual trust, so frequent and clear written communication is essential
• Receptive to feedback and solutions-oriented: We share and learn from each other honestly, openly, and easily
• A people person with a high level of self-awareness: You'll work daily with Alex, Anna, the wider team, suppliers, our accountants and client finance teams, so warmth, tact and good judgement about people are integral to the role
• Proven organisational skills: You must be obsessive with deadlines, managing and updating tasks, and totally reliable
• Self-driven work ethic: You need to be self-motivated, comfortable taking the initiative, and see projects through to completion
• Unwaveringly professional: You’ll be dealing with confidential information constantly and must be discreet and professional with this
• Calm when priorities change: You should be comfortable handling a mixture of planned and reactive work without losing sight of what matters most.
• Appetite for growth: As you build trust and company context, there will be scope for more sophisticated support to Alex, more complex Anna projects, deeper people and finance coordination, and practical AI and process improvements.

Your capability matters a lot more to us than your experience, and we would recommend you tailor your application with this in mind. We want to hear from you rather than ChatGPT. Please keep this in mind in particular with the screening questions.

 

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