FULLTIME • HYBRID, LAGOS • ₦250,000 to ₦650,000 / Monthly

About ÌTURA

ÌTURA Jewelry is a Lagos-based jewelry brand creating timeless, elegant pieces for modern Nigerians.

We are building a brand that feels warm, elevated, and genuinely worth paying attention to. Our pieces are designed to be worn every day, stacked and layered, and to hold up to real life in Lagos.

We are a small team moving quickly across a lot of surfaces at once: a Shopify store, a growing catalogue, paid media, suppliers in three countries, a warehouse in Lagos, and a set of partnerships and financing conversations that only the founders can carry. The company has outgrown the point where two founders can hold all of that in their heads.

About the Role

This is the role that protects the founders' attention and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Paul runs growth, paid media, the website, financing and the numbers. Kanma runs creative direction, product, procurement and supplier relationships. Both of them currently spend hours every week on work that does not need them personally: scheduling, chasing follow-ups, preparing documents, researching suppliers and partners, booking travel, writing first drafts, and remembering what everybody else owes them.

You will take that work off them. You will run their calendars, hold the follow-up list for the whole founders' office, prepare them for every meeting they walk into, draft the outreach and the documents, and chase the people who owe them answers until the loop is closed.

This is an execution role with real ownership, and it is deliberately not a junior one. Nobody will hand you a task list every morning. You are expected to see what is coming, prepare for it, and tell the founders what they have forgotten. The best people in this role become the person the whole team asks "what did Paul decide?" before they ask Paul.

This is not a strategy role, and it is not a management role. You will not make business decisions, negotiate deals, or run a department. You make it possible for the people who do those things to do them well.

What You'll Own

Calendar, Inbox and Meeting Preparation

• Own both founders' calendars: booking, moving, protecting focus blocks, and resolving the clashes before either founder sees them
• Run the week ahead: by Friday, both founders know every meeting they have the following week and what each one is for
• Prepare a short brief before every external meeting: who the person is, what was agreed last time, what we want out of this one, and what we owe them
• Support the founders' inboxes where delegated: triage, draft replies for approval, flag what genuinely needs them, and file the rest
• Capture decisions and actions in every meeting you sit in, and get them into Notion the same day

The Follow-Up Engine

• Hold the master list of everything either founder is waiting on, from whom, and by when
• Chase the team, suppliers, partners and service providers until each loop is actually closed, not just sent
• Track commitments the founders have made to other people, and make sure we deliver on them before we are asked
• Run a short, honest weekly check-in with each founder on what moved, what is stuck, and what they are about to miss
• Escalate early. A missed deadline you flagged on Monday is a problem; one you flagged on Friday is an incident

Outreach and Relationship Coordination

• Maintain the founders' contact and relationship pipelines in Notion: partners, press, stockists, creators, investors and service providers
• Draft personalised first-touch outreach and follow-ups in the ÌTURA voice, for founder approval
• Coordinate first conversations, book them, prepare the founders for them, and follow up afterwards
• Prepare introductions, one-pagers and meeting materials so a founder never walks into a conversation cold

Research, Documents and AI-Assisted Execution

• Run research the founders ask for and research they have not thought to ask for: suppliers, venues, events, partners, competitors, service providers, costs
• Turn that research into a decision-ready document: what the options are, what each costs, what you recommend, and what you need from them
• Prepare proposals, decks, briefing notes and meeting summaries
• Use AI tools properly as a drafting and research accelerator, and check everything before it reaches a founder. You are accountable for what you hand over, not the tool

Travel, Logistics and Personal Admin

• Book and coordinate travel, accommodation, reservations and local logistics for both founders
• Handle the recurring personal admin that competes with founder time: renewals, appointments, deliveries, filings and errands that need a reliable owner
• Keep the founders' files, documents and shared drives organised and findable

What Success Looks Like

• Neither founder is doing their own scheduling, and neither has missed a commitment they were not warned about
• Every external meeting either founder walks into has a brief attached to it
• The follow-up list is live, current and honest, and the team knows you will chase them
• Founders spend their week on decisions, partnerships, creative direction and growth, not on admin
• Research requests come back as decisions to make, not as raw links
• When a founder is travelling or heads-down, the office still runs

Who You'll Work With

You report to Paul, Co-Founder and CEO, and support Kanma, Co-Founder, on equal footing.

You will work closely with:

• Anu, Head of Business Operations, on scheduling, operational alignment and anything that touches the wider team
• Tobi, Procurement Manager, on supplier research, sample logistics and purchase coordination
• Annie, Morolake and Emmanuel on the content team, when founder work touches shoots, ads or the brand calendar
• Jasmine, Talent Assessment Lead, on interview scheduling and candidate logistics

Who You Are

You are the person who already runs the room quietly. You notice what is about to go wrong, you write things down, and you follow up without being asked twice.

You are likely someone who:

• Has supported a founder, executive or senior leader before, and can describe exactly what you took off their plate
• Writes clearly and professionally in English, and can draft an email a founder is happy to send with one edit
• Is genuinely organised, with your own system, not just a good memory
• Is comfortable chasing senior people and suppliers, politely and repeatedly, until you get an answer
• Treats confidential information as confidential without being reminded
• Is fast with tools and picks up new ones quickly. We run on Notion, Google Workspace, Shopify and Slack
• Uses AI to work faster and checks its output before anyone else sees it
• Is calm when the day changes at 9am, and does not need an apology for it

What We're Looking For

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience as an executive assistant, personal assistant, chief of staff, operations associate, or a role where you demonstrably ran someone else's time and follow-ups
• Excellent written English, and examples of documents, briefs or outreach you wrote yourself
• Real fluency with calendars across time zones, and with the logistics of travel and meetings in Lagos
• Comfort with Notion or a similar system of record, and a willingness to live in it
• Evidence that you chase things down: a story where you caught something that would otherwise have been missed
• Discretion, and references who will confirm it
• Lagos-based, and able to be in person with the founders on short notice
• Years of experience matter less to us than judgment, follow-through and how you write

This Role Is Not For You If…

• You wait to be told what to do, or need the task broken down before you start
• You are uncomfortable chasing a founder, a supplier or a senior colleague for an answer
• You treat "I sent the email" as the job being done
• You need the day to go the way it was planned
• Your written English needs heavy editing before it can be sent
• You want this to be a stepping stone into marketing or design within a few months. This is its own career, and we are hiring someone who wants it
• You find admin beneath you. A large part of this role is admin done to an unusually high standard

Why Join ÌTURA

You will sit next to both founders of a fast-growing Nigerian brand and see how every part of it actually works: the money, the suppliers, the ads, the product, the hiring.

Few roles give you that view this early. If you are the kind of person who wants to understand how a business is really run, and who takes pride in being the reason nothing gets dropped, this is an unusually good seat.

You will be trusted with real responsibility quickly, and the scope of what you own will grow as fast as you can carry it.

How to Apply

In your cover letter, include:

• A short note explaining why this role suits you, and what you would want to take off a founder's plate in your first month
• One specific example of something you caught or chased that would otherwise have been missed, and what it would have cost if you had not
• A description of the system you personally use to track other people's commitments, and why it works