(Path to Chief of Staff)
📍 Location: Los Angeles, CA
🕒 Work Model: Hybrid – Primarily on-site
🕘 Core Hours: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (flexibility required)
📄 Employment: W-2
💰 Salary: $60,000 – $80,000 (open for exceptional candidates)
Honeyfrost is a fast-growing video game content production studio founded in 2017. With a globally distributed team of 60+ people, the company has doubled revenue every year for the past four years and is entering its next growth phase.
The environment is creative, fast-moving, and founder-led — where structure around leadership is critical to scale.
About the FounderPaul-Louis is a visionary, energetic founder with strong creative and strategic instincts. He moves fast, values originality, and operates best when protected from noise and inefficiency.
He values loyalty, proactivity, sound judgment, and momentum. This role exists to support him personally and operationally — keeping him focused, in flow, and effective.
Role OverviewThis is not a traditional EA role.
This is a Life Manager / Founder Right-Hand position, managing the Founder’s business and personal operations end-to-end. You will anticipate needs, enforce structure, build systems, and act as a force multiplier.
The role is expected to evolve into a Chief of Staff or Personal Operations Lead based on performance.
Key Responsibilities- Own and optimize the Founder’s calendar, priorities, and communications
- Prepare meetings (briefs, summaries, follow-ups)
- Build and run systems that prevent anything from falling through the cracks
- Track commitments, deadlines, and reminders
- Light follow-up on Founder-related initiatives (not a PM role)
- Manage personal logistics: travel, appointments, expenses
- Oversee household needs: vendors, maintenance, subscriptions
- Support social media posting and authority-building initiatives
- Actively protect the Founder’s time and focus
RequirementsIdeal Profile
Must-Have
- 3+ years as an EA, Life Manager, Operations Manager, or similar
- Experience supporting founders or high-performing executives
- Highly proactive, organized, and dependable
- Strong judgment, emotional intelligence, and discretion
- Comfortable managing both business and personal matters
Preferred
- Startup, creative, or founder-led environments
- Music, gaming, or creative industry exposure
- Ability to turn ambiguity into structure
- Proactive, calm, and solution-oriented
- Detail-driven but flexible
- Not ego-driven or passive
- Growth-minded and career-oriented
- Direct access to the Founder
- High trust, high impact position
- Clear growth path to Chief of Staff
- Opportunity to build something long-term
If you’re looking for a career-defining role, not a traditional EA position, this may be a strong fit.
Benefits
📄 Employment: W-2
💰 Salary: $60,000 – $80,000 (open for exceptional candidates)
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