Business Assistant's responsibilities areas include:
- Schedule and information flow management: Controlling and maintaining the leader's calendar, planning trips, organizing meetings, calls, and events, keeping the founder focused by managing the information field (emails, chats, tasks, etc), gathering information on meeting participants, preparing the agenda, compiling a list of discussion points, etc.
- Execution of business tasks and projects: Market and competitor analysis, systematizing business processes, finding and supervising contractors, improving processes, preparing initial project roadmaps, etc.
- Team work and tasks organization: Gathering team members for key meetings (google meets, planning sessions), preparing the agenda, documenting agreements, and monitoring deadlines, metrics and tasks completion.
- Assistance in finding and onboarding personnel (in existing or new projects): Initial search and selection of key team members, explaining the company's structure, systems, and corporate culture.
- Research and analytics: Collecting and analyzing data on key business indicators, preparing reports for management decision-making, searching for information, preparing solutions on request.
- Hypothesis testing: Picking up, testing, and analyzing new business hypotheses.
- Systematisation: Creating, reviewing, and editing documents, procedures, presentations, guides and other materials.
- Solving non-standard tasks and problems.
- Other responsibilities that impact Business Assistant’s role product.
Disclaimer: this is not a role for which a standardised to-do’s list of tasks exists. You have to be prepared to dive into new areas and cope with processes, goals and results you never encountered before. Yes, some of the functions (below 10%, e.g. calendar & email management) will be routine-based, yet the majority will require high adaptability, quick learning, brave deep-dive and independent execution while staying humble.
A strong Business Assistant is someone who can go into a new business area full of uncertainty and chaos, create order, certainty and results out of it, describe success actions, and pass them on to another person - current team member or newly hired specialist.