Leadership Operations Coordinator

WHO WE ARE

Buddha Jewelry exists to deliver light, beauty and excellence through all we do. We're a self-funded, independently built company with real startup passion, intention, determination and a team that shows up every day with grit, curiosity, and genuine care for one another. We are more than a team, we are a passionate force for good, united by shared goals and an unstoppable drive to bring meaningful value to our clients around the world. Every team member has the opportunity to make a direct, positive impact - not just fill a role. Your ideas, decisions, and execution shape who we are, what we do, and how we do it.

We stay solution-oriented and grounded in reality, and we hold ourselves accountable to outcomes that matter. The people who thrive here are the ones who see a challenge and lean in — who treat complexity as an invitation, obstacles as puzzles worth solving, and technology as a powerful tool in their hands. We embrace innovation across every role, because we believe the best solutions come from curious minds invested in finding a better way. If you lead with ownership, lift others up, and take pride in your results, you’ll feel right at home.

Buddha Jewelry offers medical, vision, life, and dental insurance plans with a company contribution of $550 per month, a SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with a matching contribution up to 3%, a generous employee discount, annual anniversary gratis, and more!

POSITION SUMMARY

Buddha Jewelry is looking for a highly organized, proactive, and resourceful Leadership Operations Coordinator to help keep our people, leaders, and business operations connected and moving forward.

This is a cross-functional role supporting our Leadership Team while owning key administrative processes across People Operations, office management, finance administration, and international business operations. As our small company continues to grow across the US, UK, and Europe, this person will also play an important role in helping our teams stay connected across locations, time zones, and priorities.

The right person is someone who naturally anticipates what needs to happen next. They enjoy creating order, closing loops, anticipating needs, synthesizing information and making life easier for the people around them. They can move comfortably between coordinating a Leadership Team calendar, onboarding a new employee, following up on an important business renewal, helping prepare for an international meeting, and making sure an action item doesn’t quietly disappear.

This role requires excellent judgment, strong follow-through, discretion, as well as a bias towards action and a genuine desire to help a growing organization operate with excellence.

MUST HAVES

- 3+ years of experience in executive support, business operations, office management, people operations, project coordination, or a similarly broad administrative role.
- Genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and compassion
- Reliable transportation to our Seattle, WA office
 
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership Team Operations and Coordination

- Provide administrative and coordination support to members of the Leadership Team, with particular support for the executive leadership.
- Manage calendars, scheduling, meeting logistics, and coordination across multiple leaders and time zones.
- Help coordinate Leadership Team meetings, company meetings, planning sessions, and other key operating rhythms.
- Support leaders in tracking commitments, follow-ups, and action items, including helping maintain Ninety.io To-Dos and ensuring important next steps stay visible and on track.
- Assist with domestic and international travel planning, itineraries, meeting logistics, and related coordination as needed.
- Help prepare agendas, materials, notes, and follow-up communications for key meetings.
- Anticipate administrative needs and proactively identify opportunities to improve executive and Leadership Team effectiveness.

Global Team Coordination

- Help connect our US, UK, and European teams and leaders across time zones.
- Coordinate recurring meetings, planning sessions, All Hands meetings, and other opportunities that bring geographically distributed teams together.
- Support communication and information flow between leaders and teams in different locations. 
- Help create consistent operating rhythms and administrative practices as our international footprint grows.
- Coordinate logistics surrounding leadership travel and visits between our US and international offices.
- Serve as a reliable point of connection when members of the Leadership Team are working internationally.

People Operations & HR Administration

- Coordinate job postings and support recruiting administration, including interview scheduling and candidate communications.
- Manage administrative onboarding and offboarding processes in partnership with hiring managers and external HR resources.
- Set up and maintain employee information within our HRIS and related systems.
- Coordinate new-hire paperwork, system access, equipment, schedules, and first-day logistics.
- Maintain accurate and organized employee documentation and administrative records.
- Help ensure a thoughtful, consistent employee experience from recruiting through onboarding and throughout key employee milestones.
- Support internal events, employee communications, recognition, and culture initiatives as needed.

Office & Administrative Operations

- Help ensure our Seattle office is organized, functional, welcoming, and well supported.
- Manage mail, deliveries, supplies, vendors, service providers, and general office needs.
- Maintain organized company records and administrative files.
- Track important company dates, renewals, registrations, subscriptions, licenses, contracts, and recurring administrative obligations.
- Develop and maintain an administrative calendar so important deadlines are anticipated rather than discovered.
- Coordinate meetings, visitors, company events, meals, and other office logistics.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and improve recurring administrative processes.

Finance & Accounting Administration

- Provide administrative support for select Finance and Accounting processes that remain internal to the company.
- Assist with invoice and document collection, expense administration, recordkeeping, and other recurring accounting support.
- Help maintain organized documentation for financial, tax, insurance, banking, and audit-related needs.
- Coordinate information and documentation between internal leaders and external accounting, tax, insurance, and other professional partners.
- Support recurring finance-related deadlines and administrative processes as assigned by the COO/CFO.
- Handle sensitive financial and business information with a high degree of accuracy, discretion, and confidentiality.

Legal, Corporate & International Administration

- Serve as an administrative liaison with our international attorneys, accountants, registered agents, and other professional service providers.
- Maintain an organized calendar of entity registrations, annual filings, renewals, compliance deadlines, and other corporate obligations.
- Coordinate signatures, documentation, filings, and information requests with internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Maintain organized corporate records across our US and international entities.
- Help ensure important legal and corporate administrative matters continue moving forward and do not lose momentum between stakeholders.
- Support special projects related to international expansion and company operations as needed.
 
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

- 3+ years of experience in executive support, business operations, office management, people operations, project coordination, or a similarly broad administrative role.
- Exceptional organization and follow-through with the ability to manage many small but important details without losing sight of larger priorities.
- Strong calendar management, scheduling, and coordination skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- High degree of discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential employee, financial, legal, and executive information.
- Comfortable working independently, identifying what needs attention, and moving work forward without waiting for detailed instructions.
- Ability to prioritize effectively in a growing environment where needs and priorities can change quickly.
- Strong technology aptitude and comfort learning new systems and workflows.
- Experience with HRIS, project management, collaboration, or accounting systems is helpful; experience with platforms such as Ninety, NetSuite, Shopify, and Google Workspace is a plus.
- Comfortable coordinating across international teams and time zones.
- A service-oriented mindset paired with the confidence to follow up, ask questions, and hold others accountable for commitments.
- Genuine enthusiasm for making systems, teams, and workplaces work better.
- Background check required for employment
 
YOU’LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU…

- Are the person who remembers the thing everyone else forgot.
- Love a good checklist but understand that the checklist exists to help people, not the other way around.
- See an unanswered email, approaching deadline, or dangling action item and instinctively want to close the loop.
- Can gracefully remind a senior leader that they still owe someone a deliverable.
- Are equally comfortable interacting with a new employee, a company founder, an accountant, or an international attorney.
- Enjoy creating structure where it doesn’t yet exist.
- Can distinguish between something that is merely urgent and something that is actually important.
- Believe excellent operations should often feel invisible: things simply work.
 
TITLE: Leadership Operations Coordinator

REPORTS TO: COO/CFO

FULL/PART TIME: Full-time

FLSA: Non-Exempt

LOCATION: Seattle, WA

PAY RANGE: $32 - $37/hr

BENEFITS
Employee Benefits at Buddha Jewelry include: health, vision, life, and dental insurance, a SIMPLE retirement savings plan, commuter benefits, a significant employee discount, 7 paid holidays per year and more!
 
 
We encourage applications from people of color, women, those with disabilities, LGBTQIA individuals, immigrants, and anyone else who has faced discrimination or oppression as a result of their identities.

Studies have shown that folks of historically marginalized groups will often only apply to a job if they meet or exceed the listed qualifications. If you believe that you could be a good fit for our company, but don’t quite fulfill every requirement, please do still apply, we would love to hear from you!

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- Able to remain stationary 50% or more of the time.
- Able to move about inside the office to access necessary office equipment and resources.
- Able to operate a computer and other office equipment, such as a scanner, copy machine, and printer. 
- Constantly access, handle, and use non-electronic resources, including products of a very small size. 
- Occasionally moves equipment and other office resources up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to inspect, recognize, observe, assess, compare, detect, discern, and distinguish office resources, necessary documents and reporting, physical product, and other organizational resources.