Executive Assistant

💸 £24k salary on a full time, permanent contract

🌎 Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!

🏖 33 Days Paid Leave

✨ Working with globally recognisable brands in US Entertainment

💻 High-end, fast computer

💡 All the latest software and productivity tools you’ll need

SUMMARY

Founded in 2008, we are an international team that works with incredible and globally-recognised clients all over the world, particularly in the US TV industry.

Whether it’s developing our own products, producing engaging social content en-masse, or designing and delivering services to help our clients work more efficiently, our work is varied, exciting and at the very forefront of the latest technology and trends.

Currently, we are a growing team of 175+ people, but still looking for new colleagues who make an impact and believe in the same ideas and values as we do.

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!

RESPONSIBILITIES

What can you expect?

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

• Experience with project management software like Airtable or Monday.com  

YOUR WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Modern Tech Stack

We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac.

Agility & Openness for Ideas

We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!

Operating with the agility of a high growth start-up, alongside the support you can expect from a larger organisation means we encourage quick decision making and a responsive, adaptive culture.

Outstanding People

We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality and skills, we’re an international team with more than 175 people onboard and we’re looking for people with a passion for what they do - just be yourself!

Flexibility

We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working for this role. For this role, we’d like the successful candidate to start at 8:30am and work through to 4:30pm however, we’re pretty flexible - for example, taking a longer lunch and working later is no problem and might be encouraged sometimes for evening client calls if you’re willing and available to join them. 

Joining us means becoming an integral part of the whole team no matter where we’re physically working, we have a number of initiatives to create a team environment regardless of geographic location.

SALARY

£24,000 per year, depending on experience and skills.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Permanent / Full time. Either in our Edinburgh office or remote within the UK.

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

• Performance Related Pay Scheme giving an annual bonus of up to 100% of monthly salary whenever Storm Ideas is in profit
• Access to the Cycle to Work scheme

RECRUITMENT PROCESS