Executive Assistant (Temp 6-Month)

Company Description

At PayNearMe, we’re on a mission to make paying and getting paid as simple as possible. We build innovative technology that transforms the way businesses and their customers experience payments. Our industry-leading platform, PayXM™, is the first of its kind—designed to manage the entire payment experience from start to finish. Every click, swipe or tap is seamless, fast and secure, helping non-commerce businesses boost customer satisfaction, accelerate payments, and reduce costs.
Our single platform handles it all: cards, ACH, digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and even cash at more than 62,000 retail locations nationwide. Today, thousands of businesses across consumer lending, iGaming and online sports betting, property management, and tolling trust PayNearMe to deliver a payment experience that drives real results.
In September 2025, we raised a $50 million Series E funding round to accelerate our growth.
We’re a team of 300+ employees across 41 states, headquartered in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Dallas, TX and Holmdel, NJ.
Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of payments—one experience at a time.
PayNearMe is seeking a highly organized, proactive Executive Assistant to support our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, both based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This remote, six-month temporary role will provide coverage during a planned parental leave. You will receive hands-on training and a structured handoff from the current Executive Assistant before their leave begins, helping you build familiarity with the executives, priorities, and workflows.
You will help our CEO and COO stay focused on their priorities by managing their calendars and inboxes, coordinating travel and meetings, and keeping commitments and follow-up actions on track. You will work closely with the executive team, board members, internal partners, and external stakeholders, handling sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment.
The ideal candidate is resourceful, calm under pressure, and comfortable working independently in a distributed organization. This role requires availability aligned with the executives’ core working hours in Pacific Time.
Responsibilities

Executive Support

Manage complex calendars for the CEO and COO, prioritizing requests, resolving conflicts, protecting focus time, and coordinating across time zones.
Triage executive inboxes, identify urgent messages and decisions, organize correspondence, and draft or route responses as appropriate. Track outstanding requests to ensure timely follow-through.
Coordinate business travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and detailed itineraries. Manage changes and communicate updates promptly.
Prepare and submit executive expense reports, organize receipts, and resolve questions with Finance in accordance with company policies.
Coordinate contract signatures with Legal and internal stakeholders, confirm required approvals before routing documents to authorized signers, track completion, and ensure executed copies reach the appropriate owners.
Support special projects by coordinating resources, tracking deadlines, and following up on commitments.
Meeting and Event Coordination

Coordinate small to medium-sized internal and external meetings, including scheduling, attendee communications, materials, video conferencing, and logistics.
Plan and coordinate executive offsites, leadership offsites, and board meetings, including timelines, venues, travel, accommodations, vendors, meeting materials, and on-site logistics as applicable.
Partner with the CEO and COO to set agendas for executive staff meetings held twice weekly. Gather agenda items, distribute materials in advance, take notes, document decisions and action items, and follow up with owners.
Prepare and distribute agendas, presentations, and supporting documents. Maintain organized, access-controlled meeting records and confidential board materials.
Partner with People, Finance, Legal, IT, and other teams to ensure meetings and events run smoothly.
Requirements

Proven experience supporting multiple senior executives, with experience supporting a CEO or COO preferred.
Exceptional calendar management, organization, prioritization, and attention to detail.
Experience managing executive correspondence, business travel, and expense reporting.
Experience coordinating leadership meetings, offsites, and confidential executive or board materials.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear meeting notes and action-item tracking.
Unquestionable integrity and the judgment to handle sensitive business, financial, and personnel information with discretion.
Proficiency with Google Workspace, calendaring tools, video conferencing, and electronic signature platforms.
Ability to work independently in a remote environment, anticipate needs, adapt to changing priorities, and build effective relationships.
Availability to support Pacific Time working hours and commit to the full six-month assignment.
You bring confidence, resourcefulness, and warmth to your work. You know when to act independently and when to seek guidance, and you follow through so executives and their teams can rely on you.
The annual base salary range for this role represents PayNearMes good-faith estimate of the base salary it reasonably expects to offer for this position at the time of hire. Actual compensation may vary based on factors including the candidates experience,

qualifications, skills, and work location. PayNearMe may offer compensation outside of this range in certain circumstances. This position will remain posted until filled.
Annual Salary Range
$55—$58 USD
Why Join Us?:
Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant
Fast- paced and professional work culture
Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
$50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
$250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
Paid parental bonding leave
Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
401k plan
Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
Volunteer Time Off
13 scheduled holidays

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.
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PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
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