Scholastic
Executive Assistant
🇺🇸 Hybrid - New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $100K - $110K
💻 Other
🗓️ August 20th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Scholastic is hiring an Executive Assistant to the Chief Digital Officer. The role involves managing the CDO's complex calendar, liaising with senior executives and stakeholders, preparing meeting materials, and supporting cross-functional digital initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and communication across the organization.
Highlights
- Manage the Chief Digital Officer’s calendar and prioritize strategic meetings.
- Serve as primary liaison with senior executives, board members, and external partners.
- Prepare agendas, briefing documents, and meeting support materials.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives within the Digital Services division.
- Track follow-up actions from meetings to ensure deadlines and progress.
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
- Proficiency required in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Asana.
- Minimum 10 years of executive assistant experience supporting C-Suite executives, preferably in digital or technology roles.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent education and experience acceptable.
- Annual salary range from $100,000 to $110,000.
Executive Assistant Full Description
Executive Assistant
New York, New York
Full time
Job Description:
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Executive Assistant to the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is a high-visibility role providing strategic, administrative, and operational support to a C-Suite leader responsible for elevating Scholastic’s digital expression, enhancing customer experiences, and leveraging data to optimize all aspects of the business. The CDO drives Scholastic’s data initiatives and digital practice with a core approach of transforming customer insights into strategies and solutions that directly serve customers’ needs.
As a key member of the Digital Services division, the Executive Assistant will serve as the CDO’s trusted partner—managing priorities, streamlining workflows, and ensuring seamless communication across a complex network of senior executives, cross-functional teams, and external partners. This role requires exceptional judgment, professionalism, and discretion in handling sensitive information while anticipating needs and proactively addressing challenges.
This is an opportunity to contribute to Scholastic’s digital transformation at the highest levels of leadership, enabling the CDO to focus on driving enterprise-wide data and digital strategies.
This role requires being in the NYC office a minimum of three days a week.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the CDO’s complex and rapidly evolving calendar, ensuring time is allocated to strategic priorities and high-impact meetings.
- Serve as the primary liaison for the CDO with senior executives, board members, key stakeholders, and external partners, maintaining a high level of professionalism and discretion.
- Prepare agendas, briefing documents, and supporting materials for meetings, ensuring the CDO is fully equipped for productive discussions and decision-making.
- Support cross-functional initiatives within the Digital Services division by coordinating schedules, tracking deliverables, and facilitating information flow.
- Coordinate and track follow-up actions from meetings and projects, ensuring deadlines are met and progress is communicated.
- Manage confidential and sensitive information with the utmost discretion, exercising sound judgment in all communications.
- Anticipate operational and administrative needs, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the CDO’s workflow.
About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
Some benefits that we offer:
- Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
- Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
- Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Generous Parental Leave Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount
Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.
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Qualifications
HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create and edit executive-level documents and presentations.
- High degree of professionalism, discretion, and integrity in managing sensitive and confidential matters.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, and collaboration/project management tools (e.g., Slack, Zoom, Asana).
- Ability to work effectively with C-Suite executives, cross-functional leaders, and external partners.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate needs and act proactively.
- Adaptability, resilience, and composure in fast-paced, changing environments.
Experience:
- 10 years of executive assistant or senior administrative experience supporting C-Suite or senior executives, ideally a Chief Digital Officer or Chief Technology Officer in a corporate environment.
- Experience coordinating projects and facilitating cross-functional communication in a complex organizational setting.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience considered.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Type:
Regular
Job Family Group:
Administration
Location Region/State:
New York
Compensation Range:
Annual Salary: 100,000.00 - 110,000.00
EEO Statement:
Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.
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