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Executive Virtual Assistants.
Your calendar, your inbox and your follow-ups, handled before they reach you.
What is an executive virtual assistant?
An executive virtual assistant is a dedicated, bilingual remote professional who protects your time: managing your calendar across time zones, triaging and drafting your inbox, preparing meetings, booking travel, filing expenses and chasing follow-ups. They work in your business hours, inside your tools, and under a signed confidentiality agreement.
Talk to us about an executive virtual assistant- Time zone
- Real-time U.S. time zone alignment
- Language
- Bilingual English & Spanish talent
- Trust & confidentiality
- Background-checked talent & NDA protection
- Ongoing support
- Check-ins and support after the hire
What can an executive virtual assistant take off your plate?
Not every role covers all of this, and not everything here needs to sit with one person. We build the role around the tasks you actually need covered.
- 01
Calendar management
Your week built around your priorities, across time zones, with conflicts resolved before you see them.
- 02
Inbox triage & drafting
Email sorted by what needs you, replies drafted in your voice, nothing important buried.
- 03
Meeting preparation
Agendas, briefing notes and background on who you are about to meet, ready beforehand.
- 04
Travel coordination
Flights, hotels, ground transport and a single itinerary, rebooked when plans change.
- 05
Expense reports
Receipts collected, reports filed on time and spend tracked where your finance team needs it.
- 06
Follow-ups & action items
What was promised in each meeting, tracked and chased until it is closed.
- 07
Gatekeeping & first response
Requests filtered, routed or answered, so only what needs you reaches you.
- 08
Documents & personal admin
Decks, reports and forms prepared, plus the personal logistics that eat an executive week.
How do we find the right executive virtual assistant for you?
The cost of an Executive Virtual Assistant depends on factors such as experience, responsibilities, schedule, and the level of support your business requires.
Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution, Purple helps businesses define the role and find a professional whose skills and availability match their needs.
What do you get with a dedicated executive virtual assistant through Purple?
- Who does the work
- One dedicated person who works only for you, not a team shared across clients.
- Availability
- Real-time, in your hours, from Latin America.
- Getting started
- The role is shaped with you before recruiting starts, and Purple guides onboarding.
- Cost structure
- One engagement through Purple, with no recruiting or office overhead on your side.
- Changing the role
- Full-time by default, part-time on request, and it adjusts as you grow.
Who benefits most from an executive virtual assistant?
Founders and CEOs
Whose calendar is run by whoever emailed last, and who need the week to reflect their actual priorities.
Executives with heavy meeting loads
Juggling investors, board members, clients and a team across time zones, with follow-ups slipping between them.
Business owners without an office team
Who need senior-level support without adding a desk, benefits and payroll.
Consultants and professional-services partners
Who bill by the hour and lose too many of those hours to scheduling, travel and admin.
Growing teams
Where the leadership calendar became the bottleneck as headcount grew.
Which tools can they work in?
Options, not a checklist: your VA works in the tools you already use, and we match the candidate to them.
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Slack
- Zoom
- Notion
- Asana
- Trello
- ClickUp
- Streamline
- Expensify
- TravelPerk
- 1Password
- ChatGPT
- Claude
What do clients ask before hiring an executive virtual assistant?
What does an executive virtual assistant do?
An executive virtual assistant protects your time. They own your calendar across time zones, triage and draft your inbox, prepare agendas and briefing notes before meetings, book travel end to end, file expenses, chase follow-ups after every call and act as the first filter for requests that reach you. They work inside your tools and your priorities, and the goal is that fewer decisions need you at all.
How is an executive assistant different from an administrative assistant?
Scope. An executive assistant supports one person strategically: your calendar, your inbox, your stakeholders, your confidential material. An administrative assistant supports a team or an office operationally: documents, data entry, scheduling, general support. The executive role needs more judgment, because a lot of it is deciding what reaches you and what does not. We place both, and the right answer depends on whose week you need back.
Can I trust a remote assistant with my inbox and confidential information?
That is the question every executive asks, and it deserves a concrete answer. Every professional we place is background-checked and signs a confidentiality agreement, and we can sign a direct NDA with your company if you prefer. Access is scoped to what the role needs rather than granted in bulk, shared through a password manager with two-factor authentication, and revocable by you at any time.
Will they work in my time zone?
Yes. We recruit across Latin America specifically so your assistant overlaps with your working day. That is what makes the role work: a meeting moved while the morning is still ahead of you, an urgent email answered within the hour, a flight rebooked as the delay happens. An assistant several time zones behind turns every request into a next-day reply.
What tools do they work in?
Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for calendar, mail and documents; Slack for day-to-day communication; Notion, Asana, Trello or ClickUp for projects and follow-ups; a password manager such as 1Password or Bitwarden for secure access; and expense and travel tools like Expensify, Ramp or TravelPerk. For short-term rental operators, they can also work inside your PMS, such as Streamline. We match the candidate to your stack instead of asking you to change it.
Can I hire an executive virtual assistant part-time or full-time?
Both. Full-time makes sense when one executive generates a full day of calendar, inbox and follow-up work on their own. Part-time works well for founders and consultants who need a few hours of coverage every day rather than a whole shift. We shape the schedule around the level of support you actually need, and it can grow as the role proves itself.
How long does it take to hire one?
It depends on the seniority, the schedule and the confidentiality level you need, so we do not quote a fixed number of days. The sequence is always the same: we shape the role with you, recruit and vet across Latin America, and introduce a short list for you to interview. Once the role is defined, we tell you the realistic timeline for that specific profile.
Which industries hire executive assistants through Purple?
Short and mid-term rentals and property management are where we go deepest, and executive support is one of the roles we place most there. Beyond that: consulting and professional services, real estate, e-commerce, marketing agencies, finance and technology companies. The common thread is not the industry but the executive: someone whose time is worth more than the admin eating it.
Can they handle personal tasks as well as business ones?
Yes, if you want them to. Many executives hand over the personal logistics that eat the same week: family appointments, travel for private occasions, renewals and reservations. You decide what is in scope and what is not, and that boundary is agreed before they start. The confidentiality terms cover personal matters exactly as they cover business ones.
What if I am not sure exactly what I need?
That is the normal starting point. We begin by mapping a typical week: which meetings you should not be scheduling yourself, which emails never needed you, what keeps slipping. From there we shape the role and find the person who fits it, before recruiting starts. Every operation is different.
Which roles work alongside an executive virtual assistant?
Ready to find your executive virtual assistant?
Tell us what takes time in your week. We will shape the role and introduce you to the person who fits it.
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