EA Manager

Dwelly
United Kingdom
Remote

Who this role is best for

Candidates with startup or executive support experience and a passion for building EA functions will find this leadership role in a remote UK-based AI property-tech company.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of EA experience in fast-paced startups or senior executive roles
    — “10+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally in a fast-paced startup or supporting senior executives”
  • Individuals who have managed or led EA teams and established processes from scratch
    — “Proven experience managing or leading a team of EAs”
  • Candidates who view EA as a long-term career with a focus on mastery and team-building
    — “A genuine, long-term commitment to the EA craft — someone who sees deep mastery of executive support and team-building as a career in itself”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of autonomy and proactive problem-solving without direct oversight
    — “Proactive and autonomous, with the ability to anticipate needs, identify issues before they arise, take initiative”
  • The position is expected to grow significantly as the company scales
    — “the function expected to grow over time”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in building EA teams and processes from the ground up
    — “Build from scratch and manage a team of EAs supporting other members of the leadership team”
  • Emphasize your ability to reduce administrative burdens for executives through efficient systems
    — “maximises the executive team's time, reducing administrative and operational burden”
  • Showcase your mastery of modern productivity tools and your ability to implement them
    — “Proficiency with modern productivity and collaboration tools”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • built and managed an executive assistant function
  • led a team of EAs
  • improved executive team's productivity
Typical background
10+ years of experience as an Executive Assistantproven experience managing or leading a team of EAs

Skills & requirements

Required

Executive SupportTeam LeadershipOrganizational SkillsCommunication SkillsProject ManagementProblem-solving

Preferred

Event Planning

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunicationTeam ManagementProblem Solving

About the role

Original posting from Dwelly via Greenhouse

About Dwelly

Dwelly is an AI-first property-tech company. As the leadership team scales, we need an equally senior operator running alongside it — which is why this role is being built from the ground up, not slotted into an existing structure.

Role Summary

We're hiring an Executive Assistant Manager to support Dwelly's leadership team and to build the company's EA function from the ground up. This is a senior, career-level hire: someone with 10+ years of experience, ideally forged in a fast-paced startup or in direct support of senior executives, who can run a principal's day-to-day with total reliability while also standing up and leading a team of EAs (a team likely to grow further as Dwelly scales). 

What You'll Do

Your main objective is to build a structure that maximises the executive team's time, reducing administrative and operational burden across both their professional and personal lives so they can focus more time on productive work and rest.

Executive support

Own the calendar, inbox, and daily operating rhythm for senior leadership, anticipating needs before they arise

Coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder scheduling across time zones

Prepare briefing materials, agendas, and follow-ups for high-stakes meetings

Manage travel, expenses, and other administrative workflows with precision

Act as a trusted gatekeeper, exercising sound judgment on what requires the principal's attention and what does not

Team leadership

Build from scratch and manage a team of EAs supporting other members of the leadership team, with the function expected to grow over time

Set the structure, standards, and quality bar for how the EA function operates across the company

Hire, onboard, coach, and develop EAs as the team scales

Build processes and tools that enable the team to operate consistently and efficiently

What We're Looking For

10+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally in a fast-paced startup or supporting senior executives

Proven experience managing or leading a team of EAs

Proactive and autonomous, with the ability to anticipate needs, identify issues before they arise, take initiative, and drive tasks through to completion with limited direction

Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities without losing attention to detail

Strong ownership mentality and a can-do approach, with a bias toward solving problems rather than simply escalating them

Strong attention to detail

A collaborative team player who works effectively across the organisation while independently managing their own workload and responsibilities

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders

Proficiency with modern productivity and collaboration tools, including calendar, email, project management, and similar platforms

High integrity, professionalism, and discretion, with the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information

 Nice to Have

A genuine, long-term commitment to the EA craft — someone who sees deep mastery of executive support and team-building as a career in itself, not a stepping stone to another function

Event Planning Experience

Compensation & Benefits:

Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.

What is it like being a Dwell-er?

Feel free to check out Dwelly Core Principles. That’s about what we believe in, how we operate and make decisions.

What we offer is not a fancy office or a static workplace. Instead, this is solving one of worlds’ most complex problems in the largest consumer industry in the world (residential rentals), to improve the experience for >30% of households (>5M in the UK, and >100M including EU and US) that live in rental homes.

This is about disrupting the largest, most antiquated industry in the world, with one of the strongest operational and technical teams that exist in the UK and the EU. We work hard, and we shoot for extremely ambitious results. But we want people to be proud of what they’ve built and be able to look back and say one day “hell yeah, that was me that did it all”.

Customer obsession rather than competitive focus

Passion for invention

Operational excellence

Long-term thinking

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Source: Dwelly careers (Greenhouse)

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