Executive Assistant - Slate Auto

POSITION OVERVIEW

Title: Executive Assistant

Company: Slate Auto

Reports to: CEO

Location: Troy, MI (primarily in-office, with some hybrid flexibility)

ABOUT SLATE AUTO

Slate is a next-generation electric vehicle company focused on building a radically affordable and highly customizable vehicle platform. Backed by funding from world-class investors, including Jeff Bezos and Jeff Wilke, Slate is entering a critical phase of growth as it prepares for a planned vehicle launch in December 2026.

The company is operating in an early-stage, high-velocity environment and has rapidly scaled in a short period of time. It is now focused on building the systems, team, and infrastructure needed to execute at the highest level.

This is a unique opportunity to join at a pivotal moment and play a meaningful role in shaping how the company, and its leadership team, operates.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Executive Assistant will serve as a highly trusted partner to the CEO, ensuring his time, attention, and energy are focused on the highest-impact priorities. At a critical moment in the company’s build, this role will play a central part in enabling both the CEO’s effectiveness and the broader leadership team’s ability to execute.

The CEO operates at a fast pace and engages across a wide range of strategic, operational, and external priorities. This role will sit at the center of that activity, helping ensure the CEO’s time, focus, and attention are aligned with what matters most to the company at this stage of growth. As a result, the Executive Assistant will have significant visibility into the business and play an important role in helping the leadership team operate effectively.

This role requires a proactive, tech-savvy partner who can anticipate needs, bring structure to complexity, and operate with a high degree of ownership. This individual will act as a true force multiplier—filtering information, prioritizing effectively, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks without requiring oversight.

While the primary focus will be direct support to the CEO, this individual will also contribute to the broader executive office over time by helping establish systems, improve ways of working, and support the evolution of the EA function as the organization scales.

WORKING STYLE OF THE CEO

The CEO operates with a high degree of structure and consistency and relies on well-organized systems to prepare, make decisions, and follow through effectively. He is an active note-taker (primarily on iPad) and captures a significant amount of information, ideas, and action items in real time.

The Executive Assistant will play a critical role in translating these inputs into clear, trackable follow-ups by ensuring priorities, decisions, and commitments are captured, organized, and progressed without requiring the CEO to manage the details directly.

The CEO values clarity over volume, consistency over creativity in format, and tone over stylistic flourish in communication. He appreciates a partner who can maintain a steady, reliable operating rhythm and communicate on his behalf with professionalism, sound judgment, and tact, particularly when declining requests or redirecting priorities.

The environment is Microsoft-based (e.g., Outlook, Teams), and success in this role will require comfort operating within, and optimizing, these and related tools.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The EA’s responsibilities will encompass three primary areas: