Executive Assistant To Coo

JOB DESCRIPTION: Executive Assistant to COO

Summary:

PICTURESTART is looking for a full-time Executive Assistant to support the Chief Operating Officer. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day administrative functions, including scheduling, rolling calls, arranging travels, and corresponding with the rest of the company. The ideal candidate for this position is eager to learn the business side of the entertainment industry across both Film and TV at a fast-growing company. The ideal candidate will possess exemplary planning and time management skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to operate in a resourceful and self-directed manner. This is not a beginner desk, so please only apply if you’ve had relevant entertainment or finance experience.

Responsibilities

• Arranges and schedules significant volume of meetings
• Arranges domestic and international travel accommodations
• Project and deal tracking
• Process expense reports in accordance with established policy guidelines tracking expenses and following up in a timely manner
• Creating, developing, and maintaining industry reports
• Industry/competitive research
• Responsible for proactively managing and coordinating daily schedule, phone calls, contacts, travel arrangements, internal and external meetings

Qualifications

• Agency experience preferred, but not required
• Experience with finance and excel modeling is strongly encouraged
• Available to work overtime
• Minimum 1 year of finance, development or current assistant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Exemplary interpersonal skills including a professional in-person and virtual presence

Salary & Benefits:

• 401 K
• Paid vacation days and sick leave
• Hybrid Schedule
• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Competitive Salary
• Paid Holidays
• Dynamic and Friendly work environment

About PICTURESTART:

PICTURESTART, which focuses on “discovery of voice” content and storytelling, is the media company founded by producer and former studio executive Erik Feig, who has produced, supervised and originated the production of Academy Award-winning films including La La Land and The Hurt Locker, along with book adaptations and films geared toward the youth market, including The Twilight Saga,The Hunger Games series, Divergent series, Red series and Step Up series.

PICTURESTART’s most recent project, SHARPER directed by Ben Caron and starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan and Justice Smith, premiered on Apple TV+ on February 10th to great reviews. Previously, PS’s film LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE starring Mila Kunis and directed by Mike Barker, premiered on Netflix on September 30th as the #1 film and has since been nominated for two People’s Choice Awards. Prior to that, PS released CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, directed by Cooper Raiff, and starring Cooper and Dakota Johnson, on Apple TV+. The film won the Audience Award at Sundance, where it premiered alongside

PICTURESTART’S AM I OK? starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno, directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne. PS is currently in post production on a variety of projects, including SWEETHEARTS starring Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga, directed by Jordan Weiss; THEATER CAMP starring Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, and Jimmy Tatro, directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman; raunchy comedy STRAYS voiced by Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, and directed by Josh Greenbaum; and the ambitious video game adaptation BORDERLANDS starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black and directed by Eli Roth. On the TV side, PICTURESTART’s first series GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES premiered on Paramount+ on April 6, 2023.

PICTURESTART also has a rich and diverse slate of projects in various stages of development, across film, TV and audio: the highly-anticipated Sue Mengersbiopic starring Jennifer Lawrence; the action-packed epic true story about Japan's first African samurai, YASUKE; the high-school-cheating caper remake of the Thai hit BAD GENIUS; and UNPREGNANT, a teen road-trip comedy based on the acclaimed novel written by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, which premiered onHBO Max in September 2020 - just to name a few!

PICTURESTART is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to establishing andfostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race,color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy status,military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.