Executive Assistant
Location: US, NY, New York
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Online Media

Company profile:
We're Food52, and we've created a groundbreaking and award-winning cooking site. We support, connect, and celebrate home cooks, and give them everything they need in one place.We have a top editorial, business, and engineering team. We're focused on using technology to find new and better ways to connect people around their specific food interests, and to offer them superb, highly curated information about food and cooking. We attract the most talented home cooks and contributors in the country; we also publish well-known professionals like Mario Batali, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Danny Meyer. And we have partnerships with Whole Foods Market and Random House.Food52 has been named the best food website by the James Beard Foundation and IACP, and has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Pando Daily, TechCrunch, and on the Today Show.We're located in Chelsea, in New York City.

Description:
Food52, the James Beard Award-winning online food community, recipe hub, and home and kitchen shop is seeking an executive assistant to support its two founders, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs.Work on something you care about: We're a mission-driven company with a goal of inspiring and supporting home cooks. You’d be helping to build the best collaborative and comprehensive cooking experience online.Responsibilities:Provide full-time administrative support for Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, the company's founders. We're used to doing things on our own and have never had an assistant, so we'll need your help navigating these unfamiliar waters! In return, you'll get to observe -- and have a hand in -- how we run a growing business.Maintain Amanda and Merrill's calendars, schedule meetings and travel, and oversee all related communications.Coordinate founder meetings in the office -- collect background information, prepare presentation materials, greet visitors, provide refreshments, etc.Collaborate with other team members to coordinate internal meetings and events.Run errands (usually somewhere fun like Eataly or Paper Presentation).Manage paperwork/document requests (anything that needs to be signed, approved, etc.) and maintain files.Work closely with our Office Manager and provide support where needed.Spearhead special projects.

Requirements:
You're deeply organized -- arguably to a fault. We run a lifestyle business that hinges on small but important details like making sure the right thank-you gift gets chosen, wrapped beautifully and sent promptly.You have superior communication skills. You'll be interacting with all sorts of people -- including investors, partners, other entrepreneurs, real estate brokers trying to win our business. It is crucial that you know how to be charming and firm at the same time as you are on the front lines, representing the brand as well as its founders.You're a creative thinker. We're looking for someone who will not only pursue excellence in performing the job responsibilities listed here, but will always strive    to improve and streamline what we do, and how we do it.You're cheerful under pressure.You are an A+ multi-tasker and juggler of responsibilities big and small.You have a hunger for problem-solving and collaboration, all with the goal of driving Food52 forward.You're comfortable with the realities of working for a startup: being on call on evenings and weekends, and working long hours.You have a great sense of humor (i.e. think we're funny).

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