Executive Assistant - Slate Auto

POSITION OVERVIEW

Title: Executive Assistant

Company: Slate Auto

Reports to: CEO

Location: Troy, MI (primarily in-office, with some hybrid flexibility)

ABOUT SLATE AUTO

Slate is a next-generation electric vehicle company focused on building a radically affordable and highly customizable vehicle platform. Backed by funding from world-class investors, including Jeff Bezos and Jeff Wilke, Slate is entering a critical phase of growth as it prepares for a planned vehicle launch in December 2026.

The company is operating in an early-stage, high-velocity environment and has rapidly scaled in a short period of time. It is now focused on building the systems, team, and infrastructure needed to execute at the highest level.

This is a unique opportunity to join at a pivotal moment and play a meaningful role in shaping how the company, and its leadership team, operates.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Executive Assistant will serve as a highly trusted partner to the CEO, ensuring his time, attention, and energy are focused on the highest-impact priorities. At a critical moment in the company’s build, this role will play a central part in enabling both the CEO’s effectiveness and the broader leadership team’s ability to execute.

The CEO operates at a fast pace and engages across a wide range of strategic, operational, and external priorities. This role will sit at the center of that activity, helping ensure the CEO’s time, focus, and attention are aligned with what matters most to the company at this stage of growth. As a result, the Executive Assistant will have significant visibility into the business and play an important role in helping the leadership team operate effectively.

This role requires a proactive, tech-savvy partner who can anticipate needs, bring structure to complexity, and operate with a high degree of ownership. This individual will act as a true force multiplier—filtering information, prioritizing effectively, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks without requiring oversight.

While the primary focus will be direct support to the CEO, this individual will also contribute to the broader executive office over time by helping establish systems, improve ways of working, and support the evolution of the EA function as the organization scales.

WORKING STYLE OF THE CEO

The CEO operates with a high degree of structure and consistency and relies on well-organized systems to prepare, make decisions, and follow through effectively. He is an active note-taker (primarily on iPad) and captures a significant amount of information, ideas, and action items in real time.

The Executive Assistant will play a critical role in translating these inputs into clear, trackable follow-ups by ensuring priorities, decisions, and commitments are captured, organized, and progressed without requiring the CEO to manage the details directly.

The CEO values clarity over volume, consistency over creativity in format, and tone over stylistic flourish in communication. He appreciates a partner who can maintain a steady, reliable operating rhythm and communicate on his behalf with professionalism, sound judgment, and tact, particularly when declining requests or redirecting priorities.

The environment is Microsoft-based (e.g., Outlook, Teams), and success in this role will require comfort operating within, and optimizing, these and related tools.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The EA’s responsibilities will encompass three primary areas:

• Own and manage the CEO’s calendar to ensure time is prioritized toward the highest-impact activities; build in focus time, transition time, and recovery time to protect effectiveness.
• Manage and triage the CEO’s inbox, exercising judgment on what requires attention, delegation, or decline; organize inbox systems (labels, folders, flags) to maintain clarity and accessibility.
• Manage inbound and outbound communication (e.g., email, meeting requests, materials), including filtering, prioritization, and responding on the CEO’s behalf when appropriate.
• Maintain a reliable system for tracking commitments and next steps so the CEO can trust that nothing is lost, even when moving quickly across topics and meetings.
• Prepare the CEO for meetings by ensuring clarity on objectives, materials, and key context (e.g., pre-read summaries, prioritization of content).
• Serve as an extension of the CEO; represent his priorities, preferences, and standards in interactions, decision-making, and communication.
• Proactively identify conflicts, gaps, and inefficiencies in how time is allocated and adjust accordingly.

• Develop a strong understanding of the business and apply judgment to prioritize information, elevate what matters, and filter out noise.
• Leverage tools, technology, and AI to improve how information is captured, shared, and acted upon.
• Translate priorities into systems and processes that improve organization, communication, and follow-through across the CEO’s office.
• Introduce and refine scalable ways of working that increase efficiency and reduce friction across the CEO’s office.
• Partner in building and scaling the executive assistant function, including collaborating with an existing EA and helping establish systems, standards, and ways of working for the broader executive office as the company grows.

• 5 years of experience supporting senior executives (CEO, President, or C-suite) in fast-paced, high-performance environments.
• Proven track record of exceptional execution and follow-through with minimal oversight—consistently delivering without requiring reminders or follow-up.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand context, filter information, and prioritize what matters most to a busy executive.
• Experience supporting complex, fast-moving environments (e.g., technology, startups, or high-performance professional services organizations) a plus.
• Highly tech-savvy, with comfort leveraging tools, shared systems, and AI to improve workflows and increase efficiency.
• Systems-oriented thinker with experience improving processes, introducing structure, and building more effective ways of working.
• Intellectually curious, with a natural inclination to understand how the business operates and continuously improve how work gets done.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent an executive with professionalism, sound judgment, and appropriate tone.