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Virtual Executive Assistant Services for Busy Leaders

One dedicated assistant for you and your leadership team. They look after your calendar, email, travel, meeting prep and confidential admin, and they work for you, not for a shared support queue.

One Dedicated Assistant
Confidential & Discreet
24/7 Availability
Build a custom plan
Executive secretary managing calendar and correspondence
Executive reviewing schedule with assistant

An executive assistant, without the cost of hiring one

Founders, partners and senior leaders need more than tasks completed. They need someone who understands their priorities, protects their time and can be trusted with things that shouldn't go through a general admin inbox. That's a different relationship from a support desk.

Our Remote Executive Secretary service pairs you with one assistant who learns how you work, manages your calendar and email as an extension of you, and handles the sensitive admin you can't hand to just anyone.

We've been providing this kind of one-to-one support to founders and leadership teams since 2005, in more than 80 countries.

What your remote executive secretary handles

One person for the work that keeps your day running.

Calendar & Meeting Management
Calendar & Meeting Management
Calendar management across time zonesMeeting scheduling & reschedulingAgenda preparation & follow-ups

Works with

Google CalendarOutlookCalendly

Your diary stays free of clashes across time zones, without you touching it.

Correspondence & Inbox Management
Correspondence & Inbox Management
Inbox triage & drafting responsesFollow-ups on outstanding itemsGatekeeping & prioritization

Works with

GmailOutlookMicrosoft 365

Your inbox is cleared every day, and nothing important goes unanswered.

Travel & Itinerary Management
Travel & Itinerary Management
Flight & hotel bookingItinerary planningLast-minute changes handled

Works with

TripItGoogle FlightsExpensify

One itinerary for every trip, and quick rebooking when plans change.

Confidential Document Support
Confidential Document Support
Confidential document handlingContract & NDA trackingSecure filing & retrieval

Works with

DocuSignGoogle DriveDropbox

Sensitive paperwork signed, filed and easy to find, rather than lost in your inbox.

Board & Investor Communication Support
Board & Investor Communication Support
Board meeting scheduling & packetsInvestor update coordinationMinutes & follow-up tracking

Works with

Google DocsZoomDocSend

Board packs and investor updates go out on time every cycle, without a last-minute rush.

Expense Management & Reporting
Expense Management & Reporting
Expense reports & reconciliationReceipt trackingReimbursement follow-ups

Works with

ExpensifyQuickBooksConcur

Expense reports done every month instead of piling up before tax season.

The Toolkit We Work In

We work in the calendar, email and admin tools you already use.

Calendar & Email Tools

Google Calendar
Outlook
Gmail
Microsoft 365

Travel & Expense Tools

TripIt
Google Flights
Expensify
QuickBooks

Document & Meeting Tools

DocuSign
Google Drive
Zoom
DocSend

Trust comes first

An executive secretary sees things a general support desk never should. Every assistant we place with an executive is vetted for this kind of work, and works under the same ISO 27001-certified data handling as the rest of GetFriday.

One assistant. Not a rotating pool, so you never have to explain things twice.
Kept confidential. NDA-backed engagements and ISO 27001-certified data handling.
A backup who knows you. A second assistant is briefed on your account, so cover is never a stranger.

Who uses a remote executive secretary

This service is for leaders, not general team admin.

Founders & CEOs
Managing Partners
Investors & Fund Managers
Senior Executives

Solo founder doing everything, or senior executive in a larger company: either way, a remote executive secretary gives you back the hours you spend managing your own diary and email.

Why hire a remote executive secretary

Someone you trust working on your behalf, without an in-house salary:

Lower Cost Than a Hire

Executive-level support without a full-time executive assistant's salary.

Hours back every week

Less time spent on scheduling, email and travel bookings.

Discretion

Confidential work handled by one vetted assistant.

Time Zone Coverage

Support that fits your working hours, wherever you are.

Continuity Guaranteed

A trained backup means there's no gap when your assistant is away.

Business SupportBusiness tasks
Business processes crmBusiness support using ai

Why choose GetFriday for executive support?

GetFriday has supported founders, partners and senior executives since 2005, in more than 80 countries and every major time zone.

We start by learning how you work: your preferences, your priorities and what "urgent" really means to you. Not by handing you a generic admin checklist.

You get one dedicated assistant, a trained backup and ISO 27001-certified data handling. That's the reliability of an in-house executive assistant without the cost of hiring one.

Case study: a founder gets 10+ hours a week back

Client Challenge

A startup founder was running a packed calendar across three time zones, writing most of their own emails and booking their own travel between investor meetings. There was little time left for the business.

A full-time executive assistant felt too early for the company, but the founder was losing real hours every week to logistics.

Solution

The founder brought in a dedicated GetFriday executive secretary to take over calendar, email and travel.

The assistant became the founder's one point of coordination:

Calendar Management

Arranged meetings across three time zones without a single double-booking

Correspondence

Sorted the inbox and drafted routine replies for the founder to check

Travel Management

Booked and managed travel for every investor meeting, including last-minute changes

Result

With an executive secretary in place, the founder was able to:

  • Get back more than 10 hours a week that had gone on logistics
  • Stop missing or double-booking investor meetings
  • Travel with every itinerary sorted in advance
  • Put off hiring an in-house assistant until it made financial sense
10+ hours reclaimed weeklyZero double-bookingsTravel sorted in advanceNo early hire needed

Want a dedicated executive secretary of your own?

Tell us how you work and we'll match you with the right person.

Get A Free Quote

Getting started takes about a day

Tell us roughly what you need. We'll handle the rest of the set-up.

  1. Share How You Work

    Your priorities, time zone and the kind of help you need most.

  2. Meet your assistant

    We match you with one assistant, plus a trained backup for cover.

  3. Start handing things over

    Begin with your calendar, inbox and travel, and follow everything in our online portal.

It’s someone who takes care of the admin and organizational side of a business leader’s day, working remotely. That can mean managing calendars, coordinating meetings, handling business correspondence, preparing documents, doing research and arranging travel. We help businesses hand off the right executive support tasks, based on how they run and the scope we agree on.

Scheduling meetings, keeping calendars in order, handling routine correspondence, preparing documents, coordinating travel, maintaining digital records and tracking follow-ups. We’ll look at what you need and pick the tasks that work well remotely. Before we start, be clear about responsibilities and what access we’ll have.

Yes. A remote executive secretary can lift a good deal of the admin load off CEOs, founders and senior executives and help keep their days on track. That includes scheduling meetings, handling correspondence, research, preparing documents and organizing calendars. We help executives hand off recurring work, depending on availability and the responsibilities we agree on.

It can work, provided the working hours, availability and communication routines are set up for it. Tell us your preferred hours, your meeting schedule and how quickly you expect replies, and we’ll find an arrangement that fits. Before you start, confirm coverage for specific time zones, weekends, holidays and urgent requests.

Yes. We can organize your business email, draft routine replies, keep contact records current and track follow-ups, all based on your instructions. Before we begin, agree on email access, what we can reply to on our own, confidentiality rules and which messages need your sign-off.

Anything that needs someone physically present, business decisions they haven’t been authorized to make, and regulated professional advice outside their qualifications. Some financial approvals, legal decisions and confidential matters will still need someone authorized on your side. The exact limits depend on the task, the access you give and the scope we agree on.

Yes, and it’s one of the most common things executives hand off. We can organize appointments, check availability, send invitations, prepare meeting details and keep track of changes. We’ll work with your preferred workflow, calendar platform, time zone and approval rules.

More FAQ's

15,000+ clients in 80+ countries

My experience with GetFriday has been memorable and valuable so far. It’s been little over 4 months. I needed help to handle some of the time consuming and tedious tasks for my startup. They handled these tasks with ease and quality of the work produced is simply amazing. We are couple of months away from our launch and I decided to go with GetFriday for handling our customer support services. They are open to feedback and willing to do everything in their capacity to make me happy which is what matters the most to me. It was extremely crucial decision that was made very simple for me.

Chandra Koppella

Chandra Koppella

Google Review

The GetFriday team is awesome for handling the tasks that take up time which could be better spent doing other more productive things. They handle scheduling appointments, research for projects, personal tasks- all things that would take time away from my higher level objectives. Sometimes due to the language barrier I need to clarify things a bit more, but they're very professional and are quick to adjust. The VA assigned to me is amazing. I'd happily recommend GetFriday to anyone looking to delegate tasks to save time and optimize their workflow.

Orr Redko

Orr Redko

Google Review

Amazing team! Over and beyond all that was asked for. I would recommend to anyone.

William Bisset

William Bisset

Google Review

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