Executive Assistant to Publisher & CEO

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The EA to the Publisher & CEO serves as a trusted partner and extension of the Office of the CEO, enabling executive leadership to focus on the organization's highest strategic priorities. This role drives the efficient operation of the Executive Office by coordinating executive priorities, anticipating needs, and ensuring exceptional execution across meetings, communications, travel, events, and daily operations. The EA protects the CEO's time, attention, and decision-making capacity through thoughtful prioritization, sound judgment, and proactive planning.

They build productive relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders while representing the Executive Office with professionalism, discretion, and exceptional service. The EA continuously improves operations, processes, and experiences that elevate organizational effectiveness and executive leadership.

• You thrive in fast-paced environments where every day presents new challenges and opportunities to make an impact.
• You enjoy anticipating needs before others recognize them and take pride in ensuring every detail has been thoughtfully considered.
• You are energized by solving problems independently while exercising sound judgment and knowing when to elevate important decisions.
• You enjoy creating order from complexity through exceptional organization, planning, and follow-through.
• You value building trusted relationships and understand that exceptional service is rooted in professionalism, responsiveness, and discretion.
• You appreciate being the person who ensures everything behind the scenes runs seamlessly so leaders can perform at their best.
• You continually look for opportunities to improve processes, elevate the Executive Office, and create exceptional experiences for employees, executives, partners, and guests.
• You maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, integrity, and professionalism when managing highly sensitive information.

• Serve as a trusted extension of the Publisher & CEO by anticipating needs, exercising independent judgment, and ensuring executive priorities are executed with excellence.
• Own the CEO's complex calendar, meeting cadence, and scheduling priorities to maximize executive effectiveness while balancing competing organizational demands.
• Manage executive communications, correspondence, and email with professionalism and discretion, ensuring timely responses and consistent executive voice.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel, executive security, logistics, accommodations, and detailed itineraries that enable productive and seamless business travel.
• Prepare executive briefing materials, meeting agendas, research, presentations, and background information that allow informed, well-prepared decision making.
• Partner with Executive Leadership Team members, Executive Assistants, Communications, Security, Facilities, Finance, Human Resources, and other stakeholders to coordinate enterprise initiatives and executive activities.
• Lead the operational execution of executive meetings,…