Executive Assistant – CPTO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Serve as a reliable right-hand partner to the CPTO by managing priorities, safeguarding time, and ensuring focus remains on the most impactful tasks.

• Take charge of communications and stakeholder management on behalf of the CPTO by handling inbound requests, directing decisions, and drafting clear outputs across Slack, email, and documentation.

• Propel operational cadence within Product & Engineering by overseeing planning rhythms, executive forums, action tracking, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Equip the CPTO for every engagement with the right context, materials, and framing; ensuring they are never caught off guard.

• Detect gaps, eliminate obstacles, and introduce a lightweight structure when execution is losing momentum.

• Manage or assist with special projects from start to finish, providing clarity in ambiguous situations and ensuring deliverables remain on track.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience as an EA, PA, Chief of Staff, or Operations Manager in a genuinely fast-paced environment.

• Strong proactive mindset—drives initiatives forward without waiting for complete clarity or direction.

• Capable of holding senior stakeholders accountable and questioning requests that do not align with priorities.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities—clear, direct, and suitable for every audience.

• Excellent judgment—knows when to escalate issues, when to manage them, and when to push back.

• Proficient with tools such as Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, Jira, and Linear.

• Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting a CTO, CPO, or technical leadership team.

• Background in a tech scale-up, cloud infrastructure, or AI-related business.

• Comfort working across multiple time zones and with distributed international teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus scheme.

• Employee wellbeing benefits.

• 25 days of holiday, in addition to public holidays.

• Flexible working arrangements (remote or hybrid, depending on role and location).

• Genuine ownership and autonomy, with the freedom to take initiative and experiment.

• Opportunity to make a visible, meaningful impact as we scale.

• Clear career progression and growth opportunities within a rapidly expanding company.

• A collaborative, international culture founded on trust, transparency, and ownership.

• The chance to help shape NexGen Cloud’s team, culture, and future alongside ambitious, mission-driven colleagues.