South Africa Remote (Global) Full-time

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About the Role

Hire Overseas is hiring an Executive Virtual Assistant (Healthcare AI) to work directly with the founder of a fast-moving health-tech company. This role blends executive support, operations, research, and strategic execution to bring structure to high-level vision and turn direction into clear, actionable plans.

What You'll Do

  • Manage calendars, meetings, follow-ups, and communication across multiple workstreams.
  • Transform voice notes, high-level ideas, and rapid updates into structured action plans.
  • Keep priorities aligned, deadlines clear, and decisions documented.
  • Serve as a strategic sounding board by synthesizing information quickly.
  • Build lightweight systems and workflows around recurring tasks.
  • Anticipate operational gaps and proactively solve them before they become issues.
  • Support internal hiring coordination, vendor communication, and cross-team follow-up.
  • Maintain clarity across tools, documents, and ongoing workstreams.
  • Conduct fast, thorough research on health-tech, automation tools, competitors, or workflows.
  • Summarize research insights into concise briefs the founder can act on immediately.
  • Support data gathering for internal metrics, experiments, and process audits.
  • Own small to medium projects from planning to execution.
  • Coordinate with contractors, partners, and internal teams to drive tasks to completion.
  • Track commitments, outcomes, and dependencies across projects.
  • Ensure projects stay unblocked and moving even in ambiguous situations.

What We're Looking For

  • 3 or more years of experience as an EA, operations associate, or in a Chief of Staff-adjacent role.
  • Strong analytical thinking; able to break down problems without needing detailed steps.
  • High ownership mindset and bias toward action.
  • Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.
  • Excellent communication and synthesis skills.
  • Strong organization across digital tools (Notion, Sheets, task managers, etc.).
  • Comfortable working in a high-change, startup-paced environment.

Nice to Have

  • Experience in health-tech, AI tools, or early-stage startups.
  • Background supporting founders or executives.
  • Ability to build simple processes and workflows from scratch.

Team & Environment

You will work directly with the founder, reporting directly to them. This is a fast-moving health-tech company offering exposure to AI, healthcare operations, and startup systems building.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Up to 14 days of Paid Time Off annually (starting Day 1).
  • Observance of Holidays (based on your location).
  • 100% remote setup.
  • Paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th).

Work Mode

This is a 100% remote position open to global candidates.

Hire Overseas is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
Executive AssistanceCalendar ManagementTravel CoordinationCommunicationProject ManagementHealthcare IndustryAI IndustryAdministrative SupportMeeting CoordinationDocument PreparationStakeholder ManagementOrganizationTime ManagementConfidentialityRemote Collaboration
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