Executive Assistant

The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit and true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leaves you with an uplifted feeling.

The Standard's irreverent and playful sensibility, combined with a careful consideration of design, detail and service, have established its reputation as a pioneer of hospitality, travel, dining, nightlife, and beyond. The Standard hotels are known for their taste-making clientele, their pioneering design, and their unrelenting un‑Standard‑ness.

To create experience by embracing and empowering a diverse collective of team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.

The Standard’s commitment is to being an anchor for each neighbourhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.

Our promise is to ensure that a stay is an experience and that a memory means making friends and having stories to tell. To understand why it exists, is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, to hideaway, to make believe and to do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.

We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations.

Job Title: Executive Assistant Full-Time

Department: Executive Office

Location: The Standard, High Line

Reporting to: Managing Director

Responsible for: N/A

Job Purpose: This position assists the Managing Director and the Executive team with any tasks necessary to help the property operations run smoothly. Tasks include anything from greeting guests, administrative duties, attending meetings, and facilitating communication between all the various departments. Communicates with hotel guests/vendors, partners, sponsors, etc.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Understanding:
  Ability to read, comprehend and carry out instructions according to established procedures
• Comprehension:
  Fluent in the English language
• Organizational
  
  Skills:
  
  Work efficiently, utilize multi-tasking, prioritize tasks
• Hygiene and Sanitation:
  Adherence to uniform, grooming, and personal hygiene standards and expectations per SOPs
• Punctuality:
  Adherence to posted schedule and arrival time and attendance at mandatory meetings when scheduled
• Responsibility:
  Personal comportment in line with Standard, New York policies, standards, and expectations
• Organizational and planning skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and eye for accuracy
• Impeccable discretion and confidentiality
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Problem analysis and problem-solving skills
• Superb judgment and decision-making ability
• Proactive initiative and flexibility
• Knowledge of Opera Cloud, Tripleseat, and Envision Preferred
• 3 years of experience providing professional office support
• Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite and Excel
• Knowledge of Opera preferred but not essential
• Knowledge of standard office administrative practices and procedures

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the Managing Director and the Executive Team of a 338-room Lifestyle boutique hotel with seven food and beverage outlets and 800+employees
• Positively represent the MD and enhance the MD’s effectiveness by maintaining relationships with internal teams
• Serve as a liaison between the MD and all hotel departments, guests, clients, and corporate office
• Manage and maintain Managing Director and the Executive Team’s schedule, appointments, and travel arrangements
• Communicate daily activities, allocate time, and coordinate workflow; identify any schedule conflicts and changes
• Brief and update MD and Executive Team on all issues relevant to the operation…