What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Assistant to the CEO position at Ello Technology, Inc?
Full-Time role in Doylestown, PA
Compensation range : $65,000 - $100,000 Equity
At Ello, our mission is to maximize the potential of all children. Our first product, Read with Ello, is an AI reading teacher that listens to children read out loud. Ello uses speech recognition to help them when they get stuck, creates stories using generative AI, and inspires a love for reading.
We're now building on the success of Read with Ello and putting together the pieces of the world's first complete AI teacher for all children. Together, we believe we can close the primary school education gap worldwide.
Ello has been recognized on Fortune's "Change the World" and Time's 2024 Best Inventions lists. We are well-funded, backed by world-class investors, and ready to recruit new talent to help us achieve our vision.
About the Role
You will be the Executive Assistant (EA) to Ello's Co-Founder and CEO, Tom Sayer (see bio below), working in-person in Doylestown, PA. To support Tom, we are looking for a creative, resourceful administrator and project manager who is a strong communicator, detail-oriented, and has an intrinsic drive to create order out of chaos. The ideal candidate will be comfortable wearing many hats and supporting other business functions as needed given our small team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a Silicon Valley startup environment while in Bucks County, PA.
Responsibilities :
- Inbox Triage and Communication : Take charge of the CEO's inbox by triaging emails, crafting thoughtful responses, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. Your communication will set the tone for key relationships.
- External Stakeholder Management : Be the CEO's go-to for scheduling and managing interactions with investors, partners, and other high-profile stakeholders.
- Administrative Support : Manage travel arrangements, expense reporting, and other day-to-day administrative tasks.
- Meeting preparation and follow-up : Prepare compelling agendas, curate materials, provide insightful pre-briefings, and follow up on action items to maximize the value of every meeting.
- Cross-Functional Support : Support critical functions across finance, marketing, HR, and other teams with tasks such as influencer recruitment, payroll processing, and financial reporting.
- Special Projects : Own and execute high-impact initiatives such as grant applications, PR submissions, and other projects that move the business forward.
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Compensation and Benefits
65,000 - $100,000 base salary per year plus stock options, full health care coverage, and 36 days of paid time off (including holidays).
About Tom Sayer (Co-Founder & CEO)
Before Ello, Tom was the head of impact and adoption programs at Google for Education, where his team was responsible for ensuring that Google tools were used effectively in classrooms worldwide. He was also on the board of GO Public schools, an organization dedicated to giving voice to families in the most underserved communities, and on the advisory board of Education Reimagined, the movement builder of learner-centered education. He has worked as an intelligence officer, a product manager, founded an EdTech company, and has built a mini-golf course in Cambodia.
Tom graduated from Cambridge University with first-class honors in maths and psychology and has an MBA and MA (Education) from Stanford. He has won the Lamor prize at Cambridge, the Queen's medal at Sandhurst, the Intelligence top student award, and was a Siebel Scholar at the GSB. He loves running, rugby, and lives with his wife and two children in Doylestown.
About Us
Ello is a public benefit corporation on a mission to maximize the potential of all children. We're currently around ~40 people, headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in São Paulo, Brazil; Nairobi, Kenya; and New York.
Our team has deep expertise in artificial intelligence, K-12 education, and child development across institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley, Google, Apple, and more. We were part of Y Combinator's W20 batch and are funded by world-class investors including Goodwater Capital, Homebrew, Reed Hastings, Common Sense Growth, Ravensburger, Project A Ventures, Reach Capital, Khosla Ventures, WndrCo, Visible Ventures, and K9 Ventures.
We're a small, collaborative team that takes each other's voices very seriously. Because our mission is to support all children, it is critical that our team is representative of the communities we work in; we place significant emphasis on ensuring diversity in our team and inclusion in our culture.
We feel enormously privileged to be one of the few companies that has the opportunity to take a shot at truly revolutionizing education with AI at this inflection point in technology. We don't take it for granted, so we work quite hard to turn that vision into reality with urgency. We want to create an environment in which we can all be our best selves, use our strengths to take Ello forward and develop our own skills. We want to have fun while working hard to do impactful things that we're proud of - and we believe it's possible to do both.
At Ello, we view diversity as a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, skin color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please reach out to [redacted].
Salary : $65,000 - $100,000