Senior Executive Assistant

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About The Role:
 

Cardlytics is seeking an organized, strategic, growth-oriented Executive Assistant to work directly with our Chief Executive Officer acting as a trusted partner to accelerate executive team operations. This is a unique opportunity to play a role in a cross-functional environment, collaborating closely with leaders across the organization and solving problems that directly impact the business.

Location: Remote (West Coast time zone preferred) - Regular travel required

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the CEO’s Executive Assistant and primary point-of-contact for the organization: Manage calendars, communications, presentations, meetings and events, travel, enabling the CEO and other leaders to work with urgency and focus.

• Coordinate and manage board-related activities: Prepare board meeting materials, organize board meetings and committees, maintain board communications, and ensure timely distribution of materials to board members.

• Streamline productivity and drive operational excellence at the executive level: Use data to identify opportunities for optimization and provide innovative strategic recommendations, and leverage processes and frameworks that drive efficient decision-making, growth, and accountability.

• Serve as a key interface between leaders: Develop strong relationships across the organization, solicit input, be a trusted strategic advisor, foster respect and transparency, and drive effective communications, empowering teams to grow and move in a unified direction.

• Lead projects and champion change management initiatives: Identify, scope, pitch, plan, coordinate, and report on cross-functional projects that support acceleration of our progress against critical business goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in similar roles at fast-paced, product-led tech companies.

• Experience supporting board operations and governance, including preparation of board materials, coordination of board meetings, and maintenance of board documentation and communications.

• Experience in coordination, project management, and program management, especially organizing and directing multiple cross-functional teams at once.

• Experience in business management, operations, and consulting roles, especially those focused on executive-level advising, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Experience guiding performance measurement methodologies, pulling insights from data, and presenting data-driven strategic recommendations.

• Strong business acumen. Experience in advertising technology and/or financial institutions is a major plus.

• A proven track record of successfully managing high-volume workloads with urgency and focus.

• Ability and willingness to travel to support executive meetings, board meetings, and company events.

• Exceptional organization and time management skills, with a high attention to detail.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships, collaborate cross-functionally, influence across all levels of an organization, align multiple stakeholders, build credibility, and serve as a consultative thought partner.

You Are:

• A data-driven, strategic critical thinker with a bias for action and urgency.

• A creative problem-solver with the ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and action plans.

• Highly motivated with a growth-oriented mindset.

• An independent, empowered, resourceful self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, learns quickly, and is accountable with minimal supervision.

• Trustworthy, respectful, and integrous, with a high level of discretion.

• Passionate about the Cardlytics mission to make commerce more rewarding for our customers and partners.

Technical Environment

We primarily use macOS and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides). While our preferred platform is macOS, we support both macOS and Windows. Familiarity with or willingness to work within this environment is required.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and partner first

• Act with urgency and focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complimentary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email [email protected] or inform your recruiter.