Efferent Labs, Inc. Executive Administrative Assistant Mount Pleasant, SC · Full time

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Efferent Labs® offers a live, cellular data acquisition platform that will radically alter the landscape of preclinical research. Our flexible platform technology, CytoComm®, allows the researcher to prescribe the target of interest. The sensor platform is then implanted within an animal, providing real-time molecular level data that has until now, been unobtainable. The ability for the CytoComm® platform to be easily tailored to the target of interest provides an extremely valuable tool in preclinical research.

We are a MedTech company in Charleston developing breakthrough biosensor technologies to transform diagnostics, monitoring, and patient care. We are seeking a highly organized, proactive, and discreet Senior Executive Assistant to provide high-level support to the CEO and other C-suite executives. This is a ground-floor opportunity to serve as a strategic partner in a fast-paced environment, helping to scale operations, maintain focus on key priorities, and support the journey from R&D through regulatory milestones toward commercialization.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage complex calendars, schedule high-priority meetings, coordinate travel arrangements, and prepare expense reports for the CEO and C-suite team.  

- Draft correspondence, create presentations, agendas, reports, and materials for board meetings, investor updates, regulatory interactions, and internal leadership sessions.  

- Handle sensitive and confidential information with the highest level of discretion (including IP, clinical, regulatory, and strategic matters).  

- Act as a liaison with the board, senior team, external partners, and stakeholders; screen communications and prioritize incoming requests.  

- Support special projects, track priorities or key initiatives, assist with office operations, vendor coordination, and limited hiring/onboarding activities as the company grows.  

- Anticipate needs, conduct research, resolve scheduling conflicts, and proactively solve problems to maximize executive efficiency in a dynamic startup setting.  

- Be responsive outside normal business hours when business needs arise.

Qualifications

- 5–8+ years of senior-level administrative experience directly supporting C-suite executives (CEO support strongly preferred), ideally in a startup, medtech, biotech, life sciences, or other regulated industry.  

- Bachelor’s degree preferred; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).  

- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, written and verbal communication, emotional intelligence, and sound judgment.  

- Demonstrated ability to handle ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, maintain confidentiality, and thrive in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment.  

- Proactive “chief of staff lite” mindset with strong business acumen; previous exposure to board/investor support, project coordination, or regulatory environments is a plus.  

- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. and based in or willing to work in the Charleston, SC area.