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To be considered, you’ll need to have at least 7 years of experience holding an administrative support position such as executive assistant or senior administrative assistant. Your experience must indicate that you are well-acquainted with the responsibilities and tasks of an executive assistant including managing executive calendars, coordinating meetings, planning travel arrangements, and overseeing email communication for executives. General administrative experience as part of another role will not qualify.
Boldly team members are expected to work a minimum of 25 hours a week (5 hours each day M-F) during business hours. If you are looking to work for less than 25 hours a week or fewer than 5 days each week during standard business hours in your time zone, you will be automatically disqualified.
We're currently hiring in 49 states within the United States.
While we are a 100% remote company, employers must be registered to hire in the location where work is performed and we are unable to offer employment to those residing in Hawaii, Washington DC, the US territories, or countries other than the United States at this time.
Active duty military spouses may elect to use either their domicile address or their current residence as long as one of them is in a state that we are hiring.
Although tools will vary from client to client, you should be familiar with and easily able to learn the most commonly online tools used to work remotely, for example Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, LastPass, Asana, Trello, Zoom, etc.
The current pay range is between $25-$30 an hour.
Qualifying to join Boldly.
To be considered, you’ll need to have at least 7 years of experience holding an administrative support position such as executive assistant or senior administrative assistant. Your experience must indicate that you are well-acquainted with the responsibilities and tasks of an executive assistant including managing executive calendars, coordinating meetings, planning travel arrangements, and overseeing email communication for executives. General administrative experience as part of another role will not qualify.
Boldly team members are expected to work a minimum of 25 hours a week (5 hours each day M-F) during business hours. If you are looking to work for less than 25 hours a week or fewer than 5 days each week during standard business hours in your time zone, you will be automatically disqualified.
No. Boldly is a career choice in and of itself. We only accept candidates who are available daily during business hours, and who are able to dedicate at least 25 hours per week, 5 days each week, and during business hours.
Yes, as long as you are available to work for Boldly for a minimum of 25 hours per week, 5 days each week, and during business hours.
We're currently hiring in 49 states within the United States.
While we are a 100% remote company, employers must be registered to hire in the location where work is performed and we are unable to offer employment to those residing in Hawaii, Washington DC, the US territories, or countries other than the United States at this time.
Active duty military spouses may elect to use either their domicile address or their current residence as long as one of them is in a state that we are hiring.
Your moving plans matter, but there’s no need to wait to apply. Our hiring team will reach out to discuss your move and how it might impact the hiring process.
Please only consider applying if you are interested in joining our team for the long term. Boldly is a career choice in and of itself. We are not a “freelance platform” and working for Boldly is not a “short-term gig”. Boldly is all about creating long-term and rewarding partnerships and our team makes Boldly their career choice for years to come!
Along with reliable, high speed internet, you'll need a computer with up to date antivirus and software (i.e. Windows 10 or macOS and a recent version of Microsoft Office) installed.
Although tools will vary from client to client, you should be familiar with and easily able to learn the most commonly online tools used to work remotely, for example Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, LastPass, Asana, Trello, Zoom, etc.
If you’re currently stationed OCONUS as a US citizen with your military service member, you are welcome to apply if you are available to work during US business hours. Please fill out your application using the state you are domiciled in as your location, add a note on your resume with the country you reside in, and note that you’re a military spouse with SOFA status.
The Military Spouse Residency Relief Act may expand your options as a military spouse. If your domicile address is one of the states we hire in, you can use that address, even if you are currently posted in a state where we are not hiring.
Your cumulative 7+ years of experience can be with different companies as long as the experience is as an executive assistant or senior administrative assistant. Please bear in mind that any non-relevant experience (such as a realtor, teacher, dental assistant, etc.) will not count towards your cumulative experience even if those positions required you to do admin support. Again, to be considered you’ll need to demonstrate that you have at least 7 years of experience holding a position as an executive assistant or senior administrative assistant.
The application process.
After you apply, you can expect to hear the results of your application within 10 business days. Should your application be chosen to advance, the process takes an average of 3-4 weeks to complete and includes the following steps:
- Step 1: Complete a skills assessment with two short tasks
- Step 2: A preliminary video interview via Hireflix
- Step 3: An interview via Zoom with a member of our recruitment team
- Step 4: A brief meeting via Zoom with our Founder, Sandra Lewis
- Step 5: Reference and Background Checks. At this final stage in the process, we will require two (2) professional references from supervisors or people you have supported directly within the last 5 years. Please note that one of these references must be from your current supervisor.
Absolutely not! You will never be asked to pay any fees to apply for a position at Boldly and you will never pay any fees once you are accepted as part of our team.
Boldly is NOT a job platform. If your application is successful, you will be employed by Boldly, supporting Boldly's clients.
Yes, we'll get back to you within 10 days to let you know whether or not you'll move forward to the interview stage.
Working for Boldly.
All positions start part-time with the opportunity to increase hours over time as new clients are added. Our team who are settled with clients work between 25 and 40 hours per week, depending on their preference.
The current pay range is between $25-$30 an hour, with regular pay raises throughout your tenure.
You will be paid directly to your bank account.
Yes, one of the benefits to working at Boldly is that you will be a W2 employee, not an independent contractor.
ALL Boldly employees (both part-time and full-time) receive the following benefits:
• 10 days of PTO & 9 paid holidays
• A 401(k) retirement savings account matched by Boldly
• $300 per year stipend toward your technical equipment
Additionally, all full-time employees receive life insurance benefits, and Boldly covers 100% of the employee-only cost of the basic plan for full-time employees electing to enroll, including medical, dental, etc.. valued at more than $8,000 per year.
Benefits are offered in addition to and independently of pay, which means that your pay will be the same whether or not you choose to opt-in to receive health benefits (for full-time team members) and other benefits such as 401K matching.
Our HR team will provide you with our best offer using a standardized formula based on geographic location. We do this so that pay is fair and equitable for all team members, and is non-negotiable. The current pay range is between $25-$30 an hour depending on tenure and most new team members start in the low to middle range.
You can choose when you work during business hours. Keep in mind that you will need both morning and afternoon availability. So for example, if you are working with Boldly for 25 hours a week, which is the equivalent of 5 hours a day, you can choose to work 3 hours every morning and 2 hours every afternoon. These hours can be flexible day to day as long as you’re able to plan and organize your work according to the needs of the companies you are supporting.
Yes as long as it’s during business hours both mornings and afternoons.
Yes. Most of the Boldly team have worked with the same companies for over 2 years. If a client needs to make a change to their subscription, you'll be offered opportunities with alternative companies.
Yes, you will receive direction from the executive at the company you are supporting, and you will be assigned to a Boldly Team Leader who serves as your supervisor providing mentorship and support during your tenure with us. Your Team Leader is always available for questions and to meet face to face - which you’ll do very often!
Yes, just like any high performing company, we conduct performance reviews. In addition, your supervisor will provide ongoing feedback on a month to month basis. Your performance review is a way to recap and look forward to new opportunities.
Getting started.
Boldly’s comprehensive onboarding period is comprised of a combination of live training via Zoom and self-study elements. You’ll learn about Boldly’s company culture, values, and best practices to succeed in a remote environment. You’ll have access to our digital vault with hundreds of case studies, videos, and guides. And of course, we’ll review practical information such as your employment, benefits, and how you’ll get paid.
During this time we’ll also get to know you and your preferences better so that we can suggest companies for you to support that are a good match with your interests and availability.
While we expect our employees to be trained in their area of expertise, we’ll provide training in how to work remotely and best practices to succeed working with multiple companies in a remote environment.
Typically, our team get started supporting companies within 1 to 2 weeks of onboarding.
While we are a 100% remote company, we take great care to get to know you, your preferences, your availability, your skills, etc. We will suggest you for new client opportunities and you’ll get a chance to meet with the companies that you are interested in, to verify that it’s a good match. It’s always your choice whether to support a company.
Boldly works with a variety of companies and organizations of all different sizes, from solopreneurs to start-ups to larger companies. We also work with companies in many different industries, including tech, science and medicine, design, finance, nonprofits, marketing, and many others! Though we work in many different industries, often the executives' needs are similar. Regardless of the industry, you will always have the opportunity to review information and meet with the client to confirm your interest in working together! Here is our customers page for a very small sample of the customers, companies, and organizations you might be working with!
Operationally, Boldly team members become fully integrated into the business of the companies they work with, which means that you will work directly and communicate directly with each company executive(s) you support. However, as you spend your day-to-day working remotely as part of the companies you support, your home base and employment status remain with Boldly and you’ll work closely with your team leader to help you navigate client work. You’ll also get to participate in Boldly’s culture and might often work with other Boldly colleagues in support of joint clients. In short – you’ll enjoy building strong working relationships both with the team at Boldly and with the teams at the companies you’ll support!
Boldly’s focus on flexibility and choice means that your work with clients will be structured differently depending on your availability and the clients with whom you choose to work. For example, you might work with:
• One business, providing support to multiple executives within the same company.
• One business where there are multiple other Boldly assistants. You each support one or more executives and you’ll collaborate with each other.
• One business, working alongside another Boldly team member, you share the responsibilities for one senior executive.
• Two to three businesses or individual clients, splitting your day into several work blocks to focus on each of your clients at different points in the day.
About Boldly.
Boldly is an employee focused company, and we foster long-term partnerships, open communication, and transparency with our team. We have a “virtual” open door policy, which means that everyone has access to our managers and leadership team, and is encouraged to speak up, and connect with them directly, no matter what the issue. We believe that everyone deserves to enjoy a rewarding and fulfilling career, and like you we want to work with kind, friendly, positive people who go to great lengths to support each other, and make it a pleasure to work together!
Expect lots of communications with company news, team shares, quizzes, prizes, company-wide charity events, and celebrations.
Boldly’s number one value is kindness, and we place the highest priority on treating each other with kindness and respect, and on creating a culture where everyone feels welcome. To discriminate against anyone because of their age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or childbirth, physical or mental disability, veteran status, uniformed service member status, or for any other reason is not only flat-out wrong, but it goes against everything we believe in.
Boldly’s hiring process focuses on skill and experience and is based on a written process and documented criteria that removes unconscious bias from our screening and selection process. What matters to us is that you have the required skill and experience, that you are friendly and care deeply about doing a great job, and that treating others with kindness and respect is fundamental to you.
It used to be that to get the most talented people to work for them, companies had to find, recruit, and employ talent directly, with the myriad complexities hiring entails, from legal to payroll to HR administration.
But now a change has happened. Just as many of us subscribe to services like Netflix, or Amazon Prime for the convenience they offer, companies are now subscribing to the things they need to run their business. That includes subscribing to highly-qualified long-term staff, rather than employing them directly.
Instead, subscription staffing company Boldly employs a team of world-class marketers, project managers, executive assistants, and more—and makes them available on a long-term basis, allowing businesses to quickly get hand-matched remote talent for the exact number of hours they need each month with the convenience of a simple monthly payment.
Subscription staffing isn't just good for businesses, it's great for employees too. Boldly is a remote-first, employee focused company, offering our talented team the freedom to build their own schedules, work remotely, and contribute to amazing businesses while developing their own fulfilling careers.
Most VA companies will recruit you as a contractor/ freelancer with no benefits and no guarantee of work. You are usually part of an impersonal platform and put on a roster of available bodies to assist companies with random tasks. You never get to meet with the companies you support beforehand and there is no guarantee of the hours or the work that you’ll do. It’s hit and miss to say the least.
At Boldly you are a W2 employee. This means our company works just like any other high performing company with the added benefit of being 100% remote with flexible hours. The companies that you support are committed long-term and you get to meet with the executives you'll be working with before you decide to work together, so that you can be sure it's a good match.
Your primary contact will be your team leader who you'll meet with and speak with on a regular basis. We also work closely as a team, supporting each other, so even though we all work from different places, you'll “meet” team members as you share client projects, or as you provide vacation back up for each other….you’re never alone!
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