Executive Assistant

About Boat Rocker Studios

An independent, integrated global entertainment company, Boat Rocker Studios’ mission is to tell stories and build iconic brands across all genres and media. With offices around the world, Boat Rocker brings end-to-end creative expertise, robust business operations, and global franchise capabilities across Scripted, Unscripted, Documentary, and Kids & Family content. Its services span production, distribution, and brand & franchise management. In partnership with Industrial Brothers, Boat Rocker develops, produces, and exploits Industrial Brothers’ innovative and original animated series for preschool and family audiences.

A selection of Boat Rocker’s projects includes Invasion (Apple TV+), Palm Royale (Apple TV+), Mix Tape (BBC, Binge, RTE), Video Nasty (BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three, Virgin Media One, WDR), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (Prime Video), Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), American Rust: Broken Justice (Prime Video), Beacon 23 (MGM+), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu), Downey’s Dream Cars (Max), BS High (HBO), Orphan Black (BBC AMERICA, CTV Sci-Fi Channel), Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+), The Next Step (BBC, Corus, CBC), Daniel Spellbound (Netflix), Dino Ranch (Disney+, Disney Junior, CBC), and Dino Ranch: Island Explorers (Amazon Kids+, CBC, Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA).For more information, please visit www.boatrocker.com.

The Role

The Executive Assistant (EA) will report to the EVP, Head of Scripted Creative and the VP of Content Sales who focus on scripted series development, current series, and content sales. The EA is responsible for a high volume of tasks, including heavy calendar and phone management, general administrative duties, and sales support.

This role requires a self-starter with superior attention to detail, great organizational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple requests in high pressure situations. The successful individual will provide top support to their two executives, the larger creative team, and the creatives/producers we work with externally. This job is aimed at those who want to learn creative development, current, and/or global distribution from the ground up, with aspirations to become a producer, creative executive or sales executive.

Ideal candidate has a love for scripted programming and consumes a wide range of series, movies, books, podcasts and other media.

This role is based in Los Angeles with a hybrid in-office / remote schedule, based on business needs, and could potentially support additional LA based senior executives in the future at the sole discretion of the company.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Assistant Support:

• Scheduling and calendar management across multiple time zones.
• Fielding phone calls in a professional manner, rolling calls and maintaining phone sheets for both executives.
• Maintaining and updating information: contact info, submission grids, slates.
• Providing creative support such as reviewing submissions, taking notes and tracking competitive projects.
• Working across departments with Production, Finance, and Business and Legal Affairs, Distribution to ensure all relevant creative information is communicated.
• Arrange and handle logistics for large in-person and virtual meetings and conference calls; distributing material in advance of meetings; taking notes in meetings.
• Supporting sales activities, including distributing screeners, materials, and presentations.
• Maintaining buyer contacts lists and basic sales trackers.
• Organize and book travel and accommodations; prepare travel itineraries and schedules.
• Compile expense reports on behalf of executives.
• Coordinating gifts for writers, executives, internal members of the team, and larger gift projects for writers’ rooms, production gifts, etc.
• Complete detailed research on assigned projects and tasks.
• Handling high-level confidential material discreetly.
• Arranging couriers / shipments locally and internationally.

Office Management Support :

• Support day-to-day office operations, including maintaining a well-stocked kitchen and ensuring a clean, organized, and functional workspace.
• Coordinate with external vendors and service providers (e.g., cleaning, maintenance, supplies) to support smooth office operations and resolve issues as they arise.
• Manage incoming and outgoing shipments, including receiving, distributing, packaging, and tracking deliveries to ensure timely an…