Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant (EA) will report to the EVP, Head of Scripted Creative and the VP of Content Sales who focus on scripted series development, current series, and content sales. The EA is responsible for a high volume of tasks, including heavy calendar and phonemanagement, general administrative duties, and sales support.

This role requires a self-starter with superior attention to detail, great organizational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple requests in high pressure situations. The successful individual will provide top support to their two executives, the larger creative team, and the creatives/producers we work with externally. This job is aimed at those who want to learn creative development, current, and/or global distribution from the ground up, with aspirations to become a producer, creative executive or sales executive. Ideal candidate has a love for scripted programming and consumes a wide range of series, movies, books, podcasts and other media.

This role is based in Los Angeles with a hybrid in-office / remote schedule, based on business needs, and could potentially support additional LA based senior executives in the sole discretion of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling and calendar management across multiple time zones.
• Fielding phone calls in a professional manner, rolling calls and maintaining phone sheets for both executives.
• Maintaining and updating information: contact info, submission grids, slates.
• Providing creative support such as reviewing submissions, taking notes and tracking competitive projects.
• Working across departments with Production, Finance, and Business and Legal Affairs, Distribution to ensure all relevant creative information is communicated.
• Arrange and handle logistics for large in-person and virtual meetings and conference calls; distributing material in advance of meetings; taking notes in meetings.
• Supporting sales activities, including distributing screeners, materials, and presentations.
• Maintaining buyer contacts lists and basic sales trackers.
• Organize and book travel and accommodations; prepare travel itineraries and schedules.
• Compile expense reports on behalf of executives.
• Coordinating gifts for writers, executives, internal members of the team, and larger gift projects for writers' rooms, production gifts, etc.
• Complete detailed research on assigned projects and tasks.
• Handling high-level confidential material discreetly.
• Arranging couriers / shipments locally and internationally.

Office Management Support

• Support day-to-day office operations, including maintaining a well-stocked kitchen and ensuring a clean, organized, and functional workspace.
• Coordinate with external vendors and service providers (e.g., cleaning, maintenance, supplies) to support smooth office operations and resolve issues as they arise.
• Manage incoming and outgoing shipments, including receiving, distributing, packaging, and tracking deliveries to ensure timely and accurate handling.
• Support building and security access, including parking passes, elevator passes, and other office security measures.
• Support new hire onboarding process where needed.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of desk experience at a network, streamer, studio, agency, management company, production company or comparable.
• Excellent communication and phone manner.
• Calendar management experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Apple and Mac products.
• Familiarity with Airtable and general tech-savvy is a plus.
• AI fluency in leveraging AI tools to drive efficiencies and value add improvements.
• Must be reliable, efficient, and good with deadlines and time management.
• Ability to succeed under pressure.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative and positive attitude.
• Propensity towards working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Spanish language skills are an asset but not required.

Salary Range: $60,000 - $65,000 USD

Boat Rocker is committed to hiring and supporting diverse candidates. We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as being part of an under-represented and equity-deserving group. This would include people who identify as racialized, Black, Indigenous, women, LGBTQ2SI+, and having a disability among others.