Speak Your Way to Cash: Personal Assistant

Company: Speak Your Way to Cash
Reports to: Ashley Kirkwood, CEO
Status: Full-time
Location: Onsite/Hybrid, Alpharetta, GA

Position Overview

Do you love to work closely on a day-to-day basis as a personal assistant to an ambitious CEO?

Do you want to work in an environment that is fast-paced and will propel you in your career?

Are you a professional that has a service-focused attitude?

Then the team at Speak Your Way to Cash needs you! In particular, Ashley Kirkwood needs you! 

Ashley Kirkwood of Speak Your Way to Cash is seeking a full-time Personal Assistant located in Atlanta, Georgia that will help her with all the details of her day so that she can focus on the big picture of the business. This supportive role will allow Ashley to operate at her highest level in business and her personal life.

Ashley graduated top of her class from Northwestern as a Lawyer, and went on to a successful career. She left it all to become an entrepreneur where she now inspires and empowers others through her teaching and speaking. Speak Your Way to Cash does multiple webinar launches per year - upwards of 15-20. Selling from stage is Ashley’s expertise, and the company hosts 5-7 live, in person events in Atlanta and abroad per year. As Ashley’s Personal Assistant, you will come alongside Ashley and support her in person with various aspects she needs on a daily basis. 

You are perfect for this role if you are highly motivated – a real go-getter. You can anticipate a CEOs needs and take the initiative to meet those needs. You excel at providing solutions - and never give excuses! You are strategic in how you solve problems, always looking to make the CEO’s life as seamless as possible.

You are comfortable working in a fast-paced and flexible environment that changes from day to day. You’ll be working alongside the CEO in her home, anticipating and meeting her requests for both her business and her personal life, and you’ll thrive learning all the wisdom and experience you can from a highly successful digital entrepreneur. Whether running a quick errand to the pharmacy or setting up sound for a webinar, you’ll thrive in this “quick on your feet” environment.

Warning: this is not another J.O.B. This role is a true opportunity to be a part of a mission-driven organization. Ashley expects excellence from her team members, and she rewards excellence. For this role in particular, she is looking for a supportive team member that doesn’t have an ego to get in the way of success. Showing up in a professional manner is of absolute importance. 

You set high expectations for yourself and those around you. You are skilled at providing superior customer service because you have a knack for adding your calm to chaos. If you are excited to support a CEO in her personal and professional life, then you are a great fit for this Personal Assistant role!

Responsibilities (tasks associated with the role)

Personal Responsibilities:

• Anticipate the CEO’s needs and take the initiative to address those needs
• Run personal errands as needed (i.e. pick up groceries, dry cleaning, lunch, etc)
• Schedule all aspects and needs of travel
• Schedule personal meetings as needed (i.e. doctor appointments, etc)
• Travel with CEO

Professional Responsibilities:

• Maintain CEO’s email inbox and calendar
• Communicate with other team members on behalf of the CEO
• Order office supplies
• Set up Ashley’s office for virtual meetings and events
• Serve as Ashley’s buffer to others at an event
• Fully support Ashley onsite at events 
• Respond to emails as needed
• Outreach to colleagues, clients and prospects to schedule meetings for Ashley

Requirements (expected proficiencies to excel in this role)

This position is for a person who is:

• Previous Personal or Executive Assistant a plus
• Event planning experience is a huge plus! Speak Your Way to Cash manages a lot of events
• Previous experience in a professional environment required
• Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented
• Efficient and resourceful
• Optimistic
• Flexible
• Discrete and trustworthy
• Enthusiastic
• Tactful and diplomatic
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Critical thinking
• Proactive and takes the initiative
• Patient and calm
• Positive
• Excellent with follow-through  
• Solution-oriented
• Coachable

Additional requirements:

• Located in the Atlanta, Georgia area (preferably near Alpharetta)
• Available 40-50 hours per week, including evenings and weekends
• Access to reliable personal transportation
• Able to travel when needed (notice will be given)
• Able to lift boxes when needed (for example, onsite at an event)

This position is NOT for someone who:

• Just wants to hang out with Ashley
• Has another full-time job
• Is unavailable to work flexible hours, nights, and weekends
• Is unwilling or unable to travel

Current Team Members

Integrator, Customer Success Manager, Launch Assistant, Operations Assistant, Copywriter, and various other contractors

About Speak Your Way to Cash

At Speak Your Way to Cash, we teach professionals to better package, pitch, and sell their products and services. And when we say "professionals", we mean consultants, trainers, speakers, entrepreneurs, attorneys, doctors, authors… any professional who has something to sell. And what do they sell? Consulting services, professional services, information, books, courses, training, speaking gigs, or any and all combinations of such.

We educate and train via in-person events, courses, books, podcasts, social media, and even an invitation-only private mastermind group with Ashley, the company founder.

Working inside the company is very rewarding. Everyone on the team is a self-starter aiming for excellence, and they are rewarded for being such. The common bond that ties everyone together is the love of serving the brand and mission of helping black women sell. Speak Your Way to Cash is the industry leader in what they do. 

About Ashley Kirkwood

Ashley Kirkwood is an entrepreneur, speaker, and award-winning lawyer. As a renowned corporate attorney, she reached what many would call a peak – a $300k+ job. But she left it to go on her own.

She began a virtual law firm, which quickly replaced and then surpassed her previous income. But along the way, she realized two things: she loved speaking and teaching, and she also had a real talent for scaling up a business. She perfected packaging and presenting professional services to corporations and other organizations, and started teaching others. Speak Your Way to Cash® was born.

Ashley’s enthusiasm and success mindset are infectious, and her results have been well-documented. Most important to her, however, is how her teachings help, inspire, and empower others. Professionally, that’s what she lives for.

Ashley has been recognized as a thought leader by FORBES, Crain's Chicago Business, Black Enterprise, The Chicago Tribune, and more.

Offer Details

This is a full-time, remote, employee position. The position will start as a contractor for the first 90 days. Pay is between $45,000-$50,000/year (based on experience). Benefits include:

• 50% of healthcare expenses paid by the company after 90 days of employment. Including medical, dental and vision.
• Travel experiences 
• Paid Holidays
• 10 days of PTO after trial period of 90-days 
• Contract to permanent position (contractor for the first 90 days) then full-time W2 offer