Executive Assistant

The Executive Assistant is a globally scoped role that provides high-impact executive support to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) within a Product while serving as the operational leader for Executive Assistants across the Product.

This role is both strategic and operationalin nature. The Executive Assistant ensures seamless executive support, drives consistency in how Product leadership is enabled, and operationalises the Product Alignment Model to strengthen collaboration, clarity, and efficiency across global Product teams. Acting as a trusted partner to senior leaders, the ES Product Alignment Lead plays a critical role in shaping how the Product organisation operates at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, proactive executive support to the Product COO, including complex calendar management, expense management, global travel coordination, meeting preparation, follow-ups, and communications.
• Act as a trusted partner to Product leadership, anticipating needs, identifying risks, and resolving issues before partner concern.
• Support key Product leadership forums, offsites and planning cycles.
• Manage sensitive and highly confidential information with discretion and sound judgment.

Global EA Leadership & Oversight

• Provide functional direction to Product Executive Assistants globally, fostering a high-performing, connected EA community.
• Establish clear operating rhythms, standards, and guidelines for executive support across the Product team.
• Coach, mentor, and develop EAs, supporting capability building, career progression, and succession planning.
• Serve as the primary partner concern point for EA-related challenges within the Product organisation.
• Find opportunities to streamline processes, improve workflows, and enhance collaboration across their global Product team.
• Track and manage key operational cadences, dependencies, and cross-product initiatives.
• Operationalise and embed the Product Aligned Executive Support Model, ensuring consistent ways of working within a Product, regions, and leadership teams.

Skills & Proficiencies

• Exceptional executive support and organisational skills, with the ability to manage high complexity in fast-paced, global environments.
• Strong leadership and influence skills, with experience leading through ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced customer management and relationship-building capabilities.
• Ability to think strategically while delivering with precision and attention to detail.
• Proven capability in operationalising frameworks, models, or ways of working across large, distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with sound judgment and discretion.

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience in senior executive assistant or operational leadership roles supporting C-suite or equivalent senior leaders.
• Demonstrated experience working in global, matrixed organisations.
• Proven experience leading, coordinating, or mentoring Executive Assistants or operational teams at scale.
• Experience of driving operational improvements, standardisation, and alignment across teams.
• Understanding of the product organisation.
• Experience partnering closely with Strategy, Operations, or Transformation teams.

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LSEG unlocks the power of markets to create opportunities across the global economy.

Through our connected network of market infrastructure, data and analytics, we help customers access capital, manage risk and make confident decisions.

Our insights bring clarity to complex markets, and our trusted services ensure resilience and stability. With deep expertise and global scale, we partner with customers to drive innovation and shape the future of finance.

Few organisations operate at the scale, complexity and reach of LSEG. Here, you'll work alongside experts, be inspired to deliver your best work and help shape what's next for our business and the global economy.

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Join more than 26,000 colleagues across 60 countries, supporting customers in over 170 countries. Alongside flexible ways of working, you'll have access to benefits that support your wellbeing and your future, including 26 weeks' parental leave, healthcare, retirement planning and a wellness allowance. Through the LSEG Foundation and two paid volunteering days each year, you'll also have opportunities to get involved in your local community and support causes that matter to you.

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