Executive Assistant
The Role
Cedar is improving the healthcare financial experience. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling providers to thrive in a constantly evolving environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care.
We are looking for an outstanding and detail oriented Executive Assistant who will support Cedar’s dynamic Chief Commercial Officer, as well as the rest of leadership on the Commercial side of the organization. This role is critical for Cedar’s business, and will be an extremely valued member of the team!
To succeed in this role, you are mission-aligned, resilient, and relentless in achieving goals, all while having fun along the way. As the ideal candidate, you have exceptional interpersonal, communication and organizational skills and can manage up like a pro!
You have experience with heavy travel arrangements, are a master of calendar management and scheduling, and are comfortable managing multiple partners both internally and externally. As a forward and strategic thinker, you actively anticipate needs, seek opportunities and propose solutions. Navigating ambiguity, and a willingness to go above and beyond to support our vision for improving the patient healthcare experience are key.
In addition, you love handling details and prioritization, independent problem solving, and are able to thrive in a dynamic and collaborative culture where no two days are the same. Given Cedar’s current growth, our ideal candidate should be comfortable working independently as well as within a team of EA’s, and be reliable, flexible, driven, and eager to learn.
Responsibilities
- Help the CCO achieve optimal performance by managing their time and calendar, organizing competing priorities and requests for time
- Coordinate travel arrangements, working around tight schedules and well-articulated itineraries
- Communicate, on behalf of the CCO, via email and other written communications with current and prospective clients, candidates, investors, Board members, and partners
- Work on projects and events that positively impact our CCO, as well as the broader team
- Constantly look for ways to broaden the impact of our CCO by streamlining their time commitments, taking feedback and requests from internal and external partners, and proactively sharing feedback up and across the organization
- Collaborate with other EAs and members of the People team to anticipate the needs of those you support--as well as their teams--and problem solve effectively
Required Skills & Experience
- Previous experience in start-up or high growth Executive Officer support (preferably with Commercial experience)
- Strong self-management capabilities to achieve high-quality, impactful results
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Independently resourceful, and a quick study, with a keen sense of accountability
- Ability to react with appropriate levels of urgency to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround
- Experience managing across multiple geographic locations and time zones, in a remote working environment
- Track record of managing schedules and processes in a fast-paced environment
- Highly responsive with outstanding organization and follow-up skills
- Ability and excitement to function within a team of EAs and drive interoperability
- Comfort operating within a dynamic, fast paced environment and executing in situations where paths are uncharted
- Capacity to prioritize, meet deadlines and work cross-functionally
- Enthusiastic about constantly learning and improving
- Excited about Cedar’s mission of improving the patient healthcare experience
- High-level proficiency in Google suite, Zoom, Slack
- Previous remote work experience a plus
What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- An opportunity to work on a platform that is scaling very rapidly, engaging with millions of patients per year and growing at a rate of 360% YoY as of January 2021!
- A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage
- The ability to impact the growth of our company, we value all comments and suggestions!
- Transparency across teams and interaction with multiple departments
- Competitive pay, employer-paid healthcare, stock options
- Daily team lunch and unlimited healthy snacks at our NYC office
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Cedar will not hire any applicants for the Executive Assistant role who are present in the United States on an F-1 visa. Cedar is not an E-Verify employer and cannot employ individuals on a STEM OPT extension.