Protect executive focus
Create space for leaders to concentrate on the decisions, relationships, and priorities that matter most.
Executive Assistant careers
Build the operating rhythm behind great leadership.
Executive Assistants and Business Administrators do more than manage schedules. They create clarity, connect teams, anticipate needs, protect executive time, and keep complex organizations moving forward.
Executive support. Business operations. Meaningful impact.
A strategic profession
More than calendar management.
Exceptional Executive Assistants create the conditions for leaders and teams to perform at their best. They bring structure to competing priorities, strengthen communication, anticipate operational needs, and make sure important commitments continue moving forward.
Translate priorities into time
Build an effective schedule that reflects business commitments, preparation needs, and changing demands.
Connect leaders and stakeholders
Strengthen the flow of information across teams, partners, and leadership networks.
Anticipate operational needs
Identify conflicts, dependencies, and emerging issues early enough to protect momentum.
Drive follow-through
Keep decisions, commitments, and next steps visible and moving toward completion.
Exercise trusted judgment
Handle confidential information and sensitive situations with discretion, context, and care.
Career pathways
Find the EA path that fits your experience.
Executive Assistant
Supports one or more leaders through calendar management, travel, expenses, meetings, communications, and day-to-day executive coordination.
Senior Executive Assistant
Supports senior executives in complex, high-visibility environments while managing competing priorities, global stakeholders, and critical leadership activities.
Business Administrator
Combines executive support with team operations such as onboarding, procurement, events, headcount coordination, equipment, facilities, and financial administration.
Executive Business Partner
Works as a strategic partner to leadership through prioritization, operating rhythms, stakeholder alignment, executive communications, project follow-through, and organizational effectiveness.
Titles, responsibilities, experience requirements, and work arrangements vary by client and opportunity.
Scope of work
The work you may lead.
Every assignment is different. Depending on the opportunity, your work may include a combination of the following responsibilities.
Calendar strategy
Coordinate complex schedules across priorities, stakeholders, locations, and time zones.
Global travel
Plan practical domestic and international itineraries, logistics, and contingencies.
Expenses and budgets
Support accurate, timely, policy-aligned expense and budget administration.
Executive communications
Prepare clear communications and coordinate information across leadership networks.
Meetings and briefings
Organize agendas, materials, decisions, action items, and purposeful follow-through.
Events and offsites
Coordinate inclusive team experiences with strong planning and operational detail.
People operations
Support onboarding, offboarding, headcount updates, and organizational tracking.
Procurement and vendors
Help manage purchasing processes, suppliers, documentation, and approvals.
Equipment and assets
Coordinate access to the tools and equipment teams need to work effectively.
Space and facilities
Support workplace logistics and collaboration with facilities partners.
Rhythm of Business
Maintain recurring leadership cadences, milestones, reviews, and planning cycles.
Documentation
Create reliable records, trackers, reports, and reference materials.
Special projects
Advance defined initiatives and improve administrative or operational processes.
Cross-functional coordination
Partner effectively with HR, Finance, Recruiting, Legal, and other teams.
Professional capability
Skills that make an exceptional EA.
These capabilities represent a broad professional profile—not an expectation that every candidate must demonstrate every item for every role.
Executive support excellence
- Complex, multi-time-zone calendaring
- Travel planning and itinerary management
- Expense reporting and policy compliance
- Meeting preparation and follow-through
- Confidential information management
Business and operational capability
- Project and task management
- Event and offsite execution
- Budget and procurement coordination
- Onboarding and team operations
- Documentation and process improvement
Professional impact
- Executive presence and communication
- Judgment, discretion, and adaptability
- Proactive problem-solving
- Stakeholder management
- Calm attention to detail
- Inclusive collaboration and service
Enterprise environments
Ready for complex, connected organizations.
Many Strong Tower opportunities support large, global, highly collaborative organizations. Depending on the assignment, experience with enterprise tools, cross-functional teams, senior leaders, and rapidly changing priorities may be especially valuable.
Microsoft OutlookMicrosoft TeamsExcelPowerPointSharePointOneNoteExpense and procurement systemsHR and onboarding platforms
Specific tool and client-environment requirements are listed with each opportunity. Strong Tower welcomes relevant experience from organizations of many sizes and industries.
Professional outcomes
What success looks like.
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Leadership time reflects the most important business priorities.
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Scheduling conflicts are anticipated and resolved.
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Travel and expenses are accurate, timely, and compliant.
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Meetings are prepared, purposeful, and followed through.
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Stakeholders receive clear and professional communication.
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Events and team activities run smoothly.
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Sensitive information is handled appropriately.
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Operational issues are identified before they become disruptions.
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Leaders and teams view the Executive Assistant as a trusted partner.
Candidate fit
You may thrive in this work if…
You enjoy creating order from complexity, building trusted relationships, anticipating what others will need, solving problems discreetly, and helping leaders and teams perform at their best.
- You organize competing priorities without losing important details.
- You communicate directly, professionally, and thoughtfully.
- You can make progress when instructions are incomplete.
- You know when to act independently and when to escalate.
- You build trust across different roles, levels, and working styles.
- You remain composed when plans change.
- You care about both work quality and the experience of the people involved.
The Strong Tower experience
Opportunity with support behind it.
Strong Tower connects talented professionals with meaningful opportunities while providing clear communication, practical guidance, and professional respect throughout the candidate and assignment experience.
Clarity
Understand the role, work arrangement, engagement type, hiring process, and available compensation information before making a decision.
Preparation
Receive practical information and role-specific guidance as you prepare for interviews.
Onboarding
Get support navigating required documentation, screening, orientation, and assignment-specific preparation.
Partnership
Remain connected to Strong Tower for engagement communication and practical assignment support.
Hiring journey
Your path to an EA opportunity.
Explore
Review current opportunities or join the talent community.
Connect
Discuss your experience, interests, availability, and preferred way of working with a Strong Tower recruiter.
Prepare and interview
Learn about the assignment, prepare for the conversation, and meet with the client or hiring team when there is a suitable match.
Onboard
Complete required documentation, screening, orientation, and assignment-specific steps if selected.
Applications are reviewed against the requirements of each opportunity. Strong Tower cannot guarantee personal contact, an interview, or placement.
Résumé guidance
Help your experience stand out.
Focus on scope, complexity, tools, and outcomes. Never include confidential information belonging to a current or former employer or client.
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Identify the level and number of leaders supported.
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Describe the complexity and volume of calendars managed.
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Specify domestic or international travel experience.
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Include expense, budget, procurement, or vendor responsibilities.
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Quantify team size, event size, or operational scope where accurate.
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Name relevant enterprise tools.
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Explain employment gaps when appropriate.
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Distinguish individual executive support from broader team support.
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Highlight process improvements and measurable outcomes.
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State onsite, hybrid, or location availability when relevant.
Frequently asked questions
What candidates often want to know.
What types of Executive Assistant opportunities does Strong Tower offer?
Opportunities may include Executive Assistant, Senior Executive Assistant, Business Administrator, Executive Business Partner, and related administrative or operational roles. Availability and employment classification vary by opportunity.
Do all EA roles require Microsoft experience?
No. Microsoft or other large-enterprise experience may be valuable for some assignments, but it is not a universal requirement. Relevant experience from other organizations and industries is welcome.
What level of executive support experience is required?
Requirements depend on the leader, team, environment, and scope of each opportunity. Individual postings describe the experience and capabilities most relevant to that role.
Are EA opportunities remote, hybrid, or onsite?
Work arrangements vary by client, location, and assignment. Review each posting for current location and onsite, hybrid, or remote expectations.
What tools should I include on my resume?
Include tools you have used meaningfully, such as Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote, expense systems, procurement platforms, and HR or onboarding tools.
Can I join the talent community if there is no matching opening?
Yes. Visit the Talent Community page and use the CEIPAL candidate platform to submit your résumé for future consideration.
What happens after I apply?
Applications are reviewed against each opportunity’s requirements. If there may be a match, a Strong Tower recruiter may contact you to discuss your experience, interests, availability, and next steps.
Do benefits vary by opportunity?
Yes. Benefits, compensation, employment classification, and eligibility vary by role, assignment, location, and plan terms. Your recruiter will explain the available information for a specific opportunity.
Take the next step
Ready to help leaders and teams do their best work?
Explore current opportunities or join Strong Tower’s talent community to be considered for future Executive Assistant and Business Administration roles.
Candidate protection
Recruitment should always feel trustworthy.
Strong Tower never charges candidates a recruitment or placement fee. Official recruiters communicate using an @strongtower.consulting email address, and interviews take place through live, professional channels—not by text message.
If a message seems suspicious, do not share personal or financial information. Contact info@strongtower.consulting to verify it.