Executive Assistant Team Lead (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; On-site

Base salary: $160,000–$188,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Legora is an AI-native legal software company that provides an AI workspace and end-to-end workflows for legal professionals.

What you will do

• Lead a distributed executive assistant team across four offices and time zones.
• Build and maintain operating playbooks for calendars, travel, expenses, meetings, inboxes, and coverage.
• Lead automation and AI initiatives for executive-support work, including tool pilots and process standardization.
• Plan team growth, recruit executive assistants, manage executive matching, and run onboarding sprints.
• Coordinate global coverage, resolve escalations, and ensure smooth handoffs for new executives.
• Develop executive assistants through expectations, feedback, performance management, and growth paths.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience providing executive assistance to CEOs and senior executives.
• 2+ years of experience developing a team across multiple offices and time zones.
• Systems-builder mindset with experience creating and implementing playbooks, rotas, and standards.
• Experience using automation to improve executive-support work and willingness to lead AI adoption.
• Strong leadership, direct-feedback, confidentiality, judgment, and crisis-management skills.
• Ability to work on-site in the New York City office.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with teams and clients across EMEA, North America, APAC, and LATAM.
• Equity and a competitive benefits package.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including HSA or Healthcare FSA options.
• Parental leave, Maven Clinic access, dependent-care FSA, and One Medical membership.
• 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, life insurance, disability coverage, and unlimited PTO.
• In-person NYC environment focused on high standards, ownership, direct feedback, and growth.