Executive Assistant to CEO - Checkr
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 Best Places to Work in the US and is a Y Combinator 2023 Breakthrough Company.
About the role
We are looking for an Executive Assistant to support our Chief Executive Officer as part of Team CEO. As the right-hand partner to the CEO, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring each day is designed for impact. We're seeking an experienced candidate who thrives in a high-intensity environment, embraces long work hours, and can handle a heavy workload with a very high work ethic. This role demands creativity, strategic thinking, and the ability to adapt to a fast-growing, rapidly changing environment that is mission-driven and community-oriented. The ideal individual is both strategic and tactical, able to exercise sound judgment in various situations. Strong written and verbal communication, administrative, and project management skills are essential, as well as the ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities. You're always two steps ahead and comfortable diving in and rolling up your sleeves.
What you’ll do
- Proactively manage our CEO’s calendar and ensure efficient use of his time
- Proactively collaborate with other Checkr EAs to improve executive operations
- Lead projects to completion while at times leading through others
- Make CEO travel arrangements, Prepare meeting agendas, take detailed notes, and follow up on action items
- Note-taking and project management
- Serve as a trusted liaison between the CEO and internal and external stakeholders
- Support CEO communications with trusted access to internal and external platforms
- Support the CEO on important business travel
- Manage communications, presentations, and other documentation
- Organize events including board meetings, kickoffs, offsites, and more
- 5-10% of time focus on personal assistant tasks (helping the CEO with personal meetings, travel, etc)
What you bring
- 8 years of direct executive assistant experience, including 3 years supporting a CEO in a fast paced tech company
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and time management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to build internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Exceptional communicator adept at simplifying complex topics in a friendly, approachable manner
- Proven ability to demonstrate discretion in managing and sharing information
- Positivity, high agency, curiosity, and proactive problem solving
- Extensive experience and technical proficiency with the latest modern software tools such as Google Workplace, Excel, Zoom,Slack, ChatGPT and more.
What you get:
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
At Checkr, we believe an in person work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. This role requires in-office work 5 days per week to support our CEO.In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges inall of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, seeour website.
The base salary range for this role is $161,330 to $210,000 in San Francisco, CA.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including theSan Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
