Executive Assistant

About the role:

We’re looking for a proactive, highly organized Executive Assistant to partner with Forter’s CTO and SVP BizDev in a fast-paced, global environment.

This role blends high-level executive support with hands-on involvement in strategic projects, leadership coordination, and event support, giving you the opportunity to contribute directly to Forter’s pace, innovation, and success.

What you'll be doing:

• Anticipate needs and proactively manage complex, fast-changing calendars, ensuring our executives are where they need to be, prepared and on time.
• Prepare and support the creation of documents, reports, and occasional presentations for leadership initiatives.
• Work closely with the CTO’s direct reports (VP-level) to coordinate follow-ups and track action items from leadership meetings — ensuring decisions are executed and progress is visible.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, global events, and cross-team projects — from early planning to smooth delivery.
• Manage domestic and international travel logistics, including flights, hotels, and itineraries.
• Serve as a trusted gatekeeper, handling sensitive information with discretion and confidence.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, representing Forter with professionalism and warmth.
• Support company-wide cultural activities, all-hands meetings, and team-building events.
• Assist with operational needs, including liaising with office management and vendors.
  
  

What you'll need:

• 3+ years’ experience as an Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant to senior executives, ideally in a fast-paced tech company.
• Excellent English — both written and spoken — and strong interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities.
• A problem-solving mindset with the ability to adapt quickly when plans change.
• Initiative and follow-through in ensuring commitments are tracked and delivered.
• Comfort working across time zones with global stakeholders.
• A positive, can-do attitude that makes people enjoy working with you.
  
  

Why join us:

Work side-by-side with senior technology and business leaders, gain insight into strategic decision-making, and be part of a truly global company that values pace, inspiration, and innovation. Your work will help drive leadership alignment and turn decisions into results.

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)
  
  

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe, ASOS, eBay, Instacart, Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at interviewaccommodation@forter.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Hybrid work:

At Forter, we embrace a hybrid work model that blends in-person connection with the flexibility of remote work. Team members based near our key hubs are expected to work from the office at least three days per week. We believe that regular face-to-face collaboration fuels professional development, strengthens our culture, and builds the relationships that help teams thrive.

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