Executive Assistant To CEO

Description

Full-time · Dubai-based (hybrid) · Fintech / Digital assets

A fast-scaling fintech and digital assets business. A CEO who needs more than an assistant. An EA who gets what that means.

This is a genuinely senior, close-access role. The CEO leads a high-growth business and carries a full, complex personal life alongside it. He needs someone who can hold both with sound judgement, complete discretion, and a calm head when things get complicated.

The company is at an exciting point in its growth. The team is small and the environment rewards people who are sharp, self-directed, and unflappable under pressure. As a proprietary trading firm growing its AUM and in the process of raising additional funding, the pace and complexity of the environment demands someone who understands the world they're operating in.

What the role covers:

• Business support: Complex diary and meeting management, heavy meeting prep, and keeping the CEO sharp and well-prepared across a demanding schedule. You'll be proactive, not reactive, and will anticipate what's needed before being asked.
• Personal support: A significant part of this role sits in the CEO's personal world. Family logistics, school schedules and activities, coordination with household staff, and a substantial personal admin load. There will be times when you need to be available outside standard hours. This side of the role requires someone who is genuinely unshakeable and takes confidentiality seriously.
• Wider involvement: Because the business is scaling fast, the shape of this role will evolve. There will be opportunities to support the COO and ops team with exec support and broader operations, but equally, we're looking for someone who doesn't wait to be pointed at a problem. If you spot a gap, you fill it. If something needs doing, you do it. That kind of attitude is what makes the difference in a business at this stage.

The person we're looking for:

You find order in complexity and stay level when others don't. You read a room, you read ahead, and you rarely need to be told something twice. You're discreet by nature, not just by instruction. You take genuine pride in making someone else's world run well and you don't need the credit for it.

Your background:

• A strong startup or scaleup background is essential. Experience in fintech, digital assets, or an investment and asset management environment is strongly preferred.
• At least 5 years in a senior EA or PA role supporting a founder or C-suite executive.
• Proven experience managing personal as well as professional support at this level.
• Comfortable in a small, fast-moving environment where priorities shift and last-minute changes are routine.
• Dubai-based, working hybrid from the office when the CEO is in.
• Confident working across globally remote teams. Local knowledge of London is a bonus.

If this sounds like the role you've been waiting for rather than just the next step, we'd like to hear from you.