Executive Assistant

About the Role

We are hiring for an Executive Assistant to the founders at Leap. The primary expectation from this role is to provide real leverage to the founders and make sure that they are insanely productive at what they do. Because productive founders set the benchmark for productivity and performance for the company.

The charter for this role will include

• Perform tasks such as managing calendars, planning travel, and other relevant administrative duties.
• Prompt coordination among various stakeholders for both internal and external meetings.
• Follow up on action items and ensure timely closure of all actionables.
• Leading and ensuring the success of vital cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Tracking monthly milestones and setting up reviews for the same across all functions.

Ideal Persona

• 2+ relevant years of experience as an EA to the founder or senior leadership team.
• Extremely resourceful and great at problem solving.
• Hands-on, adept at multitasking.
• Exceptional organizational skills and impeccable attention to detail.
• High degree of professionalism in dealing with diverse groups of people, including Board members, senior executives, internal team, community leaders, donors.

In summary this role is an extended arm of the founders - being the chief internal coordinator, chief enforcer, and chief follow-upper to ensure that the company is running at a really fast pace and ticking like clockwork.

Everyone at Leap is entrepreneurial, moves fast and operates with extreme ownership.

There is minimal management and extreme autonomy.

If the above defines you, you will fit in snugly.

What is Leap?

Leap is a global student mobility platform that empowers students’ aspirations for a global career and education.

We have built this and this and this

We work at the exciting intersection of fintech & edtech

And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!

How far along are we?

We are the leaders in our space by a mile!

We are backed by Sequoia, Jungle Ventures, Owl Ventures & Harvard!

Read the latest fundraise news here

Who are we as people?

We have a lean, rockstar team.

We have come this far with a lean team because we love to increase the talent density with every new member we add. Yes, we are more picky than the usual company.

We hire slowly and deliberately

You can meet our founders here -> Arnav Kumar and Vaibhav Singh

Arnav tweets here

What will you be doing?

We are now building our leadership team and would love to engage

This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside -

Broadly,

• You will have tearing-your-hair level complex & challenging problems to solve
• With massive upside if you solve them
• In a super fast paced environment that will challenge you
• With enough resources to be audacious
• And mentorship from an experienced founding team

Your move !:)

• Having a busy week? - Simply apply here
• Want to skip the queue? - Take out a few mins and write a standout email to us at asha.jayaram@leapfinance.com