Executive Assistant to the CEO
New York, NYFull-time$75–95K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Magic is seeking a highly organized, proactive executive assistant to partner closely with its founder. The role combines calendar and travel coordination, personal and professional logistics, meeting preparation, correspondence, and support for customer and company projects. The assistant is expected to work autonomously, anticipate needs, and move comfortably between routine tasks and high-level projects in a fast-paced environment.
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Full job description
We're seeking a highly organized, proactive, and resourceful executive assistant to work closely with our founder as a highly trusted partner. This role needs someone exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy. What you'll do
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Manage and maintain the founder's calendar, including scheduling, prioritization, and logistics
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Coordinate travel, itineraries, transportation, and accommodations
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Run personal and professional errands and handle returns, deliveries, and appointments
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Help prepare the founder for meetings by organizing materials, schedules, and relevant information
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Support customer and company projects as needed
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Coordinate high-touch gifting for clients, partners, employees, and personal relationships
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Help manage personal and professional correspondence and follow-ups
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Anticipate the founder's needs and handle tasks before they're requested
What we're looking for
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1-3+ years of experience in executive assistance, operations, or a similarly high-touch role
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Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
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Highly proactive; you naturally think several steps ahead
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Comfortable managing both mundane logistics and high-level projects
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Strong calendar, scheduling, travel, and expense-management skills
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A resourceful problem solver who can figure things out independently
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Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment
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Willing to jump between professional and personal responsibilities as needed
What we offer
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$75,000-$95,000 base salary + equity
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We work in person 5 days a week in our SoHo office
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Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSA and HSA plans available)
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Lunch daily from the best restaurants in NYC; you choose all the restaurants your first week
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Unlimited PTO
How this job compares
Set against the 573 open Executive Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–95K/yr
- New York median$90–118K/yr52 salary ranges
- US median$90–120K/yr260 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $85K, is 15% below the New York median midpoint ($100K) — in the middle half of Executive Assistant salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 113 open Executive Assistant jobs in New York and 573 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Beacon Hill Staffing Group18 open
- Alma3 open
- City of New York3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Executive Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (443 postings).
- Education
- 82 of the 573 open Executive Assistant jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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