About Boat Rocker Studios
An independent, integrated global entertainment company, Boat Rocker Studios’ mission is to tell stories and build iconic brands across all genres and media. With offices around the world, Boat Rocker brings end-to-end creative expertise, robust business operations, and global franchise capabilities across Scripted, Unscripted, Documentary, and Kids & Family content. Its services span production, distribution, and brand & franchise management. In partnership with Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker develops, produces, and exploits Industrial Brothers' innovative and original animated series for preschool and family audiences. A selection of Boat Rocker’s projects includes Invasion (Apple TV+), Palm Royale (Apple TV+), Mix Tape (BBC, Binge, RTE), Video Nasty (BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three, Virgin Media One, WDR), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (Prime Video), Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), American Rust: Broken Justice (Prime Video), Beacon 23 (MGM+), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu), Downey’s Dream Cars (Max), BS High (HBO), Orphan Black (BBC AMERICA, CTV Sci-Fi Channel), Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+), The Next Step (BBC, Corus, CBC), Daniel Spellbound (Netflix), Dino Ranch (Disney+, Disney Junior, CBC), and Dino Ranch: Island Explorers (Amazon Kids+, CBC, Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA).For more information, please visit www.boatrocker.com.

THE ROLE
The Executive Assistant (EA) will report to the EVP, Head of Scripted Creative and the VP of Content Sales & Distribution who focus on scripted series development, current series, and content sales. The EA is responsible for a high volume of tasks, including heavy calendar and phone management, general administrative duties, and sales support.

This role requires a self-starter with superior attention to detail, great organizational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple requests in high pressure situations. The successful individual will provide top support to their two executives, the larger creative team, and the creatives/producers we work with externally. This job is aimed at those who want to learn creative development, current, and/or global distribution from the ground up, with aspirations to become a producer, creative executive or sales executive.
Ideal candidate has a love for scripted programming and consumes a wide range of series, movies, books, podcasts and other media.

This role is based in Los Angeles with a hybrid in-office / remote schedule, based on business needs, and could potentially support additional LA based senior executives in the future at the sole discretion of the company.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Scheduling and calendar management across multiple time zones.
Fielding phone calls in a professional manner, rolling calls and maintaining phone sheets for both executives.
Maintaining and updating information: contact info, submission grids, slates.
Providing creative support such as reviewing submissions, taking notes and tracking competitive projects.
Working across departments with Production, Finance, and Business and Legal Affairs, Distribution to ensure all relevant creative information is communicated.
Arrange and handle logistics for large in-person and virtual meetings and conference calls; distributing material in advance of meetings; taking notes in meetings.
Supporting sales activities, including distributing screeners, materials, and presentations.
Maintaining buyer contacts lists and basic sales trackers.
Organize and book travel and accommodations; prepare travel itineraries and schedules.
Compile expense reports on behalf of executives.
Coordinating gifts for writers, executives, internal members of the team, and larger gift projects for writers’ rooms, production gifts, etc.
Complete detailed research on assigned projects and tasks.
Handling high-level confidential material discreetly.
Arranging couriers / shipments locally and internationally.
Responsible for office management tasks, including coordinating facilities needs, managing office vendors, overseeing mail distribution and ensuring office supplies, kitchen snacks and coffee are well stocked and maintained.

REQUIREMENTS

1-2 years of desk experience at a network, streamer, studio, agency, management company, production company or comparable.
Excellent communication and phone manner.
Calendar management experience.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Apple and Mac products.
Familiarity with Airtable and general tech-savvy is a plus.
Must be reliable, efficient, and good with deadlines and time management.
Ability to succeed under pressure.
Entrepreneurial spirit, collaborative and positive attitude.
Propensity towards working in a highly collaborative environment.
Spanish language skills are an asset but not required.

Expected Salary Range: $55,000 - $65,000 USD

Why Boat Rocker?

You’ll work with a team of passionate, creative and fun individuals who have a passion for storytelling
Competitive salary along with a comprehensive healthcare and dental benefits package, including access to an Employee Assistance Program
Additional time off during the winter holidays
In-person/remote hybrid work environment

Boat Rocker Studios is committed to providing a fair and equitable work environment and encourages applications from qualified candidates including those with visible minorities, aboriginal peoples and persons with disabilities. Boat Rocker Studios is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible candidate experience. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.