Executive Assistant to Founder

Location:

Mississauga, ON (head office)

Schedule:

Tuesday to Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Work Model:
On-site, 5 days per week
Compensation: $65,000 - $70,000 base salary + 5% annualperformancebonus
Benefits:
Benefits from day one, including a Health Spending Account
3weeks vacation
20% discount at their restaurant brands

Our client is a fast-growing hospitality and premium restaurant group (brunch and evening dining) with multiple locations across the GTA and continued expansion plans. As the business grows, they are focused on strengthening internal coordination, leadership support, documentation, and day-to-day operational follow-up.

They are looking for a highly organized, proactive,tech-savvy, personable and polished

Executive Assistant to the Founderto support a busy Founder in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.

The Executive Assistant to the Founder will play a key role in helping the Founder stay organized, focused, and supported while the business continues to grow. Based in Mississauga, ON, this role is ideal for someone who has supported an owner, Founder, CEO, President, or senior leader in a smaller or mid-sized business where the work isfast-paced, varied, and hands-on.

This is not a traditional corporate Executive Assistant role with a narrow scope limited to calendar and travel.

It is afounder-support and administrative coordination rolewhere you will help manage priorities, protect the Founder’s time, coordinate follow-up, handle confidential documentation, and support day-to-day administrative needs across the business.

The right person will be comfortable acting as a practical gatekeeper, using good judgment when managing requests for the Founder’s time, and making minor administrative decisions on the Founder’s behalf when appropriate.

We’relooking foranorganized, responsive, discreet, and confident administrative professional with experience in executive support, senior administration, office coordination, operations coordination, or a similar role, ideally within a smaller, founder-led, entrepreneurial, hospitality, retail, franchise, or multi-location environment. You should becomfortablebalancing structure with flexibility, managing competing priorities, and communicating professionally with internal teams, external partners, and leadership.

• $70,000 base salary + 5% annual performance-based bonus
• Benefits from day one, including aHealth Spending Account
• 3weeks vacation, plusadditionalpaid time off structure
• Opportunity to work closely with the Founderof a growing hospitality group
• A newly created role with the chance to bring more organization, structure, and follow-through to the business
• Broad exposure across executive support, administration, internal coordination, documentation, and operational follow-up
• A fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your judgment, initiative, and ability to keep things moving will be valued

• Provide calendar management, scheduling, inbox follow-up, and day-to-day administrative support for the Founder
• Help protect the Founder’s time by prioritizing meetings, redirecting requests when appropriate, and managing follow-up
• Coordinate meetings, prepare notes or agendas when required, and ensure next steps are tracked
• Arrange travel, accommodations, itineraries, and relatedlogisticsfor the Founder and leadership team as needed

• Support interview scheduling, candidate communication, job fair coordination, and related administrative follow-up when required
• Prepare, organize, and send approved documents, forms, correspondence, and internal communications with accuracy and discretion
• Assist with confidential team…