About the Role
The Executive Assistant to the CEO is a critical role at the centre of Nuix’s most senior executive relationship, operating as a trusted extension of the CEO. This role manages the rhythm of the business at the executive level and ensures the CEO can operate at full effectiveness, with a meaningful Board coordination remit as a core part of the job.
Responsibilities
- Manage a complex, rapidly shifting calendar across multiple time zones, with full ownership of prioritisation and diary discipline.
- Prepare the CEO for every engagement, including briefing notes, pre-reads, talking points, and context.
- Draft, review, and triage correspondence on behalf of the CEO, exercising sound judgement.
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, including detailed itineraries, logistics, visa requirements, and ground arrangements.
- Manage expenses, approvals, and administrative obligations for the CEO with accuracy and timeliness.
- Proactively anticipate the needs of the CEO, surfacing information, flagging risks, and resolving issues before they escalate.
- Coordinate all Board and committee meeting logistics end-to-end, including scheduling, venue, catering, technology setup, and travel arrangements for Non-Executive Directors.
- Track board calendar deadlines across the ELT, following up to ensure submissions land on time.
- Manage NED scheduling, including meeting requests, director travel, pre-meeting logistics, and site visits.
- Maintain a forward view of the Board cycle, anticipating workload peaks and coordinating resources.
- Handle all Board-related correspondence and communications with professionalism and complete confidentiality.
- Coordinate the ELT meeting cycle, including scheduling, agenda management, pre-read distribution, action tracking, and follow-through.
- Manage the CEO’s direct engagement with ELT members, tracking commitments.
- Partner with ELT Executive Assistants and Team Assistants to maintain a coordinated executive support function.
- Support key leadership events, such as offsites and all-hands meetings, in partnership with P&C and Events.
- Act as a central coordination point for cross-functional executive commitments, ensuring the CEO is briefed, prepared, and represented appropriately.
Requirements
- Significant executive assistant experience supporting C-suite or Board-level leaders in a complex, fast-moving organisation.
- Proven track record managing sensitive, confidential information with complete discretion.
- Prior experience coordinating across a senior leadership team or managing a small team of administrative or support staff.
Skills
- Exceptional organisational capability
- Strong written communication
- Technologically fluent
- Commercial awareness
- Politically astute
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Significant executive assistant experience
About the Company
- Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities.
- Nuix Vision: Finding Truth in a Digital World.
- Nuix Mission Statement: Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.
- Nuix Values: TAKE OWNERSHIP, RESILIENT, UNAFRAID, TEAM NUIX, HERO OUR CUSTOMERS.
Equal Opportunity
- Nuix is an equal opportunities employer.
- We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer.
- We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone.
- If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please note this in your job application.
- Nuix is an Equal Opportunity Employer
