Job Description

Hello, World! Codecademy has helped tens of millions of learners upgrade their careers, build meaningful projects, and gain confidence in their skills with engaging, accessible, and flexible education on programming and data skills. We provide hands-on interactive lessons ranging from Python to R to JavaScript and everything in between. Our learners have gone on to start companies, new jobs, and new lives thanks to what they’ve learned with Codecademy, and we’re thrilled to be working to take that impact to the next level.

Codecademy was started in 2011 by two college students in a dorm room at Columbia that were frustrated by the huge gap between education and employment. Almost a decade later, we are a rapidly growing, diverse team of about 200 distributed through North America and headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $87.5m in venture capital funding from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more.

If you want to help build a business that impacts tens of millions of people each year and helps them lead better lives, join us!

We are looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to run the show and make our CEO's life as efficient and seamless as possible. You’ll enhance productivity, serve as an extension of our brand, and organize the details of their complex schedule, ultimately ensuring they're in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. Sound like you? Read on!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Triage an active inbox, including drafting communications, prioritizing what needs to be accomplished, and streamlining tasks
• Coordinate a challenging calendar on behalf of the CEO (across multiple time zones) with meetings, interviews, travel, and everything in between
• Coordinate and handle Google calendaring, proactively monitoring for conflicts, resolving these conflicts, and facilitating meeting logistics as required
• Collaborate with the CEO to prepare important investor and stakeholder-facing documents
• Handle private information with discretion, maintaining a high degree of confidentiality throughout
• Coordinate internal staff & leadership meetings and off-sites on behalf of the CEO and following-up on action items
• Submit expense reports on behalf of the CEO
• Work with the Chief of Staff on optimizing the office of the CEO

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced, Executive Assistant role
• Natural affinity and ability for details –– you double and triple-check everything!
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to ghost-write and draft emails and documents
• Tech savvy is a must! -- experience with project management tools such as Asana or Trello, as well as office-related tools like Google Docs and Notion
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively to balance diverse and competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment, while managing steady state responsibilities
• Critical thinker and creative problem solver
• Positive attitude, where no project is too big or small and you’re not afraid to pitch in where needed

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT:

• Enthusiasm for the tech startup landscape!
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-change business environment

At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of learners with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.