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Executive Assistant (High-Autonomy Role)

Manila Recruitment
PhilippinesPhilippines
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Mid-Level

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An exciting opportunity for a high-autonomy Executive Assistant to support the Founder by managing communication flow, keeping priorities on track, driving follow-through, and bringing structure to the many projects and responsibilities within a growing, founder-led company.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Provide high-trust, proactive support to the President across business, personal, and operational priorities.
  • Maintain and organize the President’s open tasks, decisions, commitments, and follow-ups to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Manage the email capture and task-tracking system, ensuring relevant requests and action items are properly recorded and followed through.
  • Maintain project trackers and provide visibility on progress, pending actions, and blockers.
  • Monitor AI-generated meeting notes and ensure action items are captured, assigned, and followed up on.
  • Conduct timely, rule-based follow-ups with internal and external stakeholders, including following up with the President when he is the blocker.
  • Provide administrative support for the hiring pipeline, including coordination, tracking, and follow-ups.
  • Coordinate recurring household services and contractors, including scheduling and follow-ups for pool, lawn, pest control, A/C, and other household needs.
  • Assist with vacation, house-sitting, and other personal planning and coordination.
  • Help develop and maintain a structured household operating system, including schedules, routines, and processes.
  • Take ownership of projects and new responsibilities as they arise, even when they are outside the candidate’s previous experience.
  • Research, organize, coordinate, and help execute new initiatives based on the desired outcome.
  • Identify gaps, blockers, or items requiring attention and proactively take the appropriate next steps.
  • Use AI and technology as part of day-to-day workflows to improve efficiency, organization, research, documentation, and execution.
  • Learn and adapt to new internal systems, project management tools, and AI-enabled workflows as the company evolves.
  • Maintain clear written communication and provide timely updates while working primarily in an asynchronous environment.
  • Exercise sound judgment and discretion when handling business and personal information.
  • Gradually take on greater autonomy and decision-making authority as trust is established.

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Manila Recruitment is a premier, enterprise-grade talent acquisition platform and recruitment consultancy engineered to orchestrate massive-scale workforce deployments and executive search operations across the Philippines. Operating as a highly integrated human-capital ecosystem, the firm eliminates the operational friction of traditional offshore hiring by seamlessly unifying advanced passive candidate sourcing, rigorous technical vetting, and end-to-end remote staff management. Moving beyond rigid, job-board-reliant staffing models, Manila Recruitment empowers multinational corporations and tech startups to dynamically scale their IT, executive, and specialized offshore teams with certified, industry-leading headhunters. Under the hood, their sophisticated recruitment architecture leverages a proprietary database of over 250,000 vetted professionals, combining cutting-edge digital sourcing tools with deep localized market intelligence to secure previously undiscoverable talent. What sets Manila Recruitment apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless talent orchestration; by bridging the gap between complex global expansion requirements and elite Filipino professionals, the platform empowers enterprises to radically accelerate their remote operations, optimize workforce spend, and build high-performance teams with guaranteed hiring outcomes.

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