Executive Assistant

Remote - UK

Why us?

💸 Up to £30k salary on a full time, permanent contract
🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!
🏖 33 Days Paid Leave
✨ Exciting high growth product, relied on by leading global brands, particularly within sports
💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools

Summary

Storyteller is a platform that allows brands to integrate Stories functionality into their apps and websites. The platform is in use by multiple global brands serving millions of users. Check us out on our website or on ProductHunt!

You'll be working with a friendly, talented team and have the opportunity to grow and lead both technically and in managing others. If the idea of a fast-paced, dynamic role with tonnes of opportunity for change, responsibility and innovation sounds exciting to you, then read on!    

About us

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

For customers, building their own stories experience can take years and a lot of investment however Storyteller has solved this by allowing companies to integrate in days, not years all for one monthly cost. Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with globally-recognised clients in US TV and Sports industries. Every day we produce work that is innovative, challenging, and enjoyed by millions of people!

Responsibilities

We are looking for an Executive Assistant who is eager to learn, has bundles of energy and is keen to work in a varied role supporting the CEO on all sorts of tasks across the company. The ideal candidate would soak up all the learnings the role has to offer and have ambition to one day progress within the company with more responsibility or in an area they show aptitude for.

What can you expect?

  • Liaising with the CEO daily to understand their priorities and be deployed on a variety of task

  • Carrying out ad hoc tasks such as research projects with high level of attention to detail

  • Developing a strong understanding of the company, our clients, their industries

  • Managing the CEO’s calendars to ensure that their time is focused and prioritised

  • Attending client and internal meetings, taking detailed notes and parsing into action items

  • Ensuring the CEO has the appropriate briefing and documentation for meetings

  • Handling communication and correspondence on behalf of the CEO when appropriate

  • Learning workflow tools and assisting with process design and automation

  • Organising and co-ordinating travel and accommodation when required

  • Once you know the role well, using initiative and prioritisation to manage your own time rather than relying on tasks set by others

  • Sometimes being deployed to projects to provide extra support to other teams within the company on particularly time sensitive tasks

Qualifications

What's important for us:

  • The smarts – we would love to see this person progress within the company and one day take on more responsibility

  • Technical aptitude for understanding new software and systems 

  • Good school grades and a bachelor’s degree

  • Strong organisational skills and an aptitude for systems and process

  • Ability to prioritise workload

  • Enjoyment in and aptitude for working independently

  • Attention to detail 

  • High work-ethic and self-motivation 

  • Excellent written and communication skills

  • Enthusiasm and appetite to learn

Nice to have:

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and experience using online project management software such as Jira and/or Airtable (don’t worry if not - as long as you have an aptitude and hunger for learning new software, we want to hear from you!)

  • Experience communicating directly with customers

  • Familiarity with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, SDKs & APIs

Benefits

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS
  • 33 days’ holiday

  • High end laptop - macOS or Windows!

  • Top of the range monitors, headphones, keyboard, mouse and gel rests

  • Paid training to further your skills

  • Annual Flu inoculation

  • Team outings and monthly meets

AFTER 3 MONTHS

  • Up to £700 to spend on a chair, desk or any other necessary workspace equipment to kit out your home office.

  • £750 budget every two years to choose your own mobile phone + monthly mobile contract paid for

  • Enrolment in workplace pension scheme with matched employer contributions

  • Money towards glasses with Specsavers

AFTER 1 YEAR

  • Access to the Cycle to Work scheme

Recruitment Process

First, you will receive questions to answer via a self-recorded video.

Followed by:

  • 15 min intro call with Ben, COO via MS Teams

  • First interview with Rob, our VP of Operations via MS Teams

  • Final interview with Bob, our Founder & CEO via MS Teams

And that’s it!