Executive Assistant

Overview

Seb Von, 24, CEO & founder of Screw Loose (about to turn 25 this april). Based in Bermondsey, London – grew up in London. Ex Yes Theory editor, worked with lots of creators as a storyteller / editor / director & founded Screw Loose June 2024 – now it’s grown to a 4 person team making out the box, viral, creative ads for some of the coolest & fastest growing brands in the world. Creative, extremely ambitious, high-energy, big picture thinker. Naturally struggle with organisation, memory, and managing multiple tasks simultaneously. Nice guy, will always back those who consistently work hard & always put their best foot forward. Get frustrated at people if they’re disrespectful, lazy or slack. I give lots of opportunities to people – everyone around me / those who work with me develop a lot as long as they’re good people! Care a ton about standards & creating the best videos in the world – greatness is my goal.

HOW I COMMUNICATE

• Think and communicate in voice notes & text messages & of course in person / in calls.
• Need replies back as text so I can action them (not voice notes back) as one of the most important things is time saving from my side.
• Casual and direct – no corporate fluff, I try to be considerate & phrase things nicely but sometimes i just get straight to the point, which I’m trying to do more.
• Want things executed, not instructions given back to me
• I get frustrated if people don’t acknowledge or respond to my messages timely – this applies more so to people who work with me.

HOW I WORK BEST

• Need someone to catch things falling through the cracks
• Need someone to completely take charge of all admin & organizational things in my life & business life – my life as a priority, then business secondary.
• Bad at calendaring – things need to go in immediately or they’re forgotten. I’ll probably send screenshots on whatsapp of times ive agreed to meet someone & then assistant puts into calendar.
• Struggle to context-switch between creative and admin
• Work across multiple time zones (NY, London, Cape Town frequently)
• Gen-Z out the box creative advertising agency
• Only agency to have worked with MrBeast, Yes Theory, Simon Squibb, and Monte. Only agency to have worked with more tier 1 premium creators than anyone else 🇪🇺
• Growing fast
• Have a beautiful pink office in Southwark with space for 6.
• Goal = become Gen-z’s most revered creative agency (imagine you’re at the pub & people talk about this sick ad or stunt they saw & somebody’s like – that must be a screw loose thing).
• attitude: Be proactive, if you see something that could be better, fix it without waiting to be told.

PERSONAL

• Email: seb@screwloose.co
• Mix of extroverted & introverted – get my energy from meeting awesome people, and people bring out the best in me – but also need time alone for a day or two after too much back to back time around everybody else.

THINGS I’M GOOD / GREAT AT:

• Very good networker
• Good at sales
• Good at leading & growing company as a whole
• Talented & v good at ideation
• Very good editor & good storyteller

THINGS I’M NOT GOOD AT / DON’T ENJOY:

• Time management & organization
• managing calendar
• memory
• paying staff & invoices
• creating & sending contracts

NON-NEGOTIABLES:

• Trust – I have to be able to trust this person with a lot of sensitive information, financial numbers, personal things & business finances.
• Reliability – don’t want to have sleepless nights over if I can rely on them.
• Get along with each other.
• Timely responding to my texts & messages – good communication is essential
• Highly organised / very capable at being highly organised

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• I can be fully creative and fully in sales mode
• Not worry about admin at all – i just know that that whole side of the business & my life is handled.
• People in the company know what’s going on even if I don’t really (timelines & scheduling wise)
• I get a lot of my time back to do more pitching, sales & ideating. (right now i have my hand in most areas, but currently delegating out more in production & operations)