Job Summary
Part-time hybrid position for a hyper-focused, organization-driven person that loves creating order out of chaos in a fast-moving environment. This role combines high levels of discipline, keen skills in time management, pristine clear communication, getting ahead of issues with eagle-eyed planning, proactive problem solving, zen-like task triage, sensitive issue resolution, and precision prioritization.
This position is hourly, and starts part-time. Includes both onsite work at an office in downtown Austin, and distributed work from your home office. Hours to start will average 20-25 per week, with a standard onsite schedule coupled with more flexible work at home hours. You should be comfortable with a flexible work/home environment.
The person who takes on this position will work closely with a full-time PA that has been in the role for 18 months. He has built additional responsibilities, and has an expanded role. The new member of the executive office team may find significant future opportunities for hours, advancement and flexibility, as has been the case with the role's alumni.
What you'll be doing:
Scheduling of meetings and travel.
Email management, including dictation, tagging, filing, and drafting.
Agenda and priority triage and facilitation.
Coordinating calendar events.
Filing duties including postal errands.
Home-office management and care.
Project delegation and vendor contact.
Internal team communication and support.
Online research and projects.
Document drafting and document management.
You may be a good match for this role if you embody many of these traits:
Efficient time and project manager, naturally organized.
Keen sense for prioritization and optimization.
Effortlessly productive.
Strong communication in team settings and one-on-one.
Ability to switch gears fluidly and flexibly.
Able to maintain independent priorities and projects.
An excellent, elegant writer reflecting a curious and insightful nature.
Internet native, digital technology comfortable, and online research super-comfortable.
Mature, responsible, with healthy habits and healthy outlook.
Have expertise with Google Apps, and a willingness to learn & use various other apps including Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, PipeDrive CRM, and Kentico CMS.
A positive, understanding, and gentle approach.
Experience working with CEOs or other C-level executives.
You should feel comfortable directing and overseeing the Principal's schedule, keeping everything organized, and assisting awareness of priorities, focus, and meetings.
[A] Team Benefits
Being an [A]gent comes with its benefits. Work from anywhere. (In this unique role you will also work onsite in downtown Austin). Advance your career on the leading-edge of the content and technology sciences. Earn a competitive salary, top shelf health care plans through United Healthcare, and for longtime [A]gents, participation in a profit-sharing plan. But many [A]gents find the best part of working as an [A]gent are the other [A]gents you work with and the culture at [A].
We take care of each other and we honor each other's work and contributions to the team. We work to make ourselves better and our [A] team better. We make efforts to adapt new technologies and methodologies that can help us optimize our time, and we expect you to collaborate on these efforts if you're an expert on any of those fields. We communicate and reach out to other [A] players. We love learning. We love teaching. We write. We code. We support each other. For the right people, working at [A] feels like coming home.
About [A]
At its simplest, [A] is a distributed technology consulting company in the United States that focuses on content engineering and content management systems integration. We simplify complex technology for agencies and institutional clients. We focus content engineering and content technology, but our [A]gents are multi-talented and get called upon to deliver consulting, application development, architecture and strategy.
[A] is a team of intelligent [A]gents made up of smart people with many roles and no titles. We are content engineers, analysts, programmers, developers, architects, content strategists, strategic consultants, data scientists, producers, marketers, writers and communicators.
Learn more about [A] at simplea.com.
