Hire vetted offshoreExecutive Assistants.
Calendar, inbox, travel, reporting and follow-through — handled by a vetted independent professional engaged through Sprint Labs, not a marketplace freelancer who disappears.
- Full-time, dedicated, managed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
- Role-specific AI training included
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
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Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore executive assistant cost, and how does hiring one work?
Offshore executive assistants cost USD 1,550–1,800 per month all-in at mid-level, USD 1,900–2,350 for senior chief-of-staff-adjacent hires. The Philippines is the deepest and strongest market by a wide margin.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we manage the engagement
Contracts, contractor fees and payments, time off, performance concerns and replacement sit with Sprint Labs. Role-specific AI training is available from their start, scheduled when it suits you.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Mid-Senior annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally in Australia, including employer on-costs.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Local figure: midpoint of the AUD 109,000–136,250 salary range (Robert Half 2026 Salary Guide (Sydney), 2026) plus default employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figure: typical Mid-Senior price (band midpoint) × 12, converted from USD at the mid-market rate of 2026-11-05. Indicative only.
What does a strong executive assistant change?
The EA role only works if the person stays long enough to build context, which is exactly why unmanaged marketplace hiring fails at it and a managed contractor model succeeds. Sprint Labs manages the assistant's engagement, payments, time off and support, so your context doesn't walk out the door every eight months.
What they own
- Own the executive calendar and protect deep-work time
- Triage the inbox and draft replies for approval
- Coordinate travel, expenses and vendor admin
- Take meeting notes and chase actions to completion
- Prepare briefing documents and recurring reports
What skills should an executive assistant have?
- Calendar & inbox management
- Travel coordination
- Meeting notes & follow-ups
- Expense management
- Google Workspace / Microsoft 365
- Notion & documentation
- Light bookkeeping
- CRM data hygiene
- Research & briefing packs
- Stakeholder communication
AI workflow training for your executive assistant
An executive assistant protects one leader's time and reputation. Training shows your executive assistant where AI can speed up briefing, follow-through and inbox triage, and why every draft that goes out under the executive's name still gets a careful human read.
Briefing packs before key meetings
Pull together a one-page brief for an upcoming board or client meeting from past email threads, notes, the agenda and public background on the attendees.
Names, dates, figures and commitments in the brief are traced back to the original email or document, and anything unconfirmed is marked as such.
Turning meeting notes into owned actions
Convert a transcript or rough notes from a leadership meeting into a clean list of decisions, owners and due dates, then draft the follow-up email.
Each action is checked against the transcript and confirmed with the executive before the follow-up is sent or tasks are assigned.
Triage and reply drafts for the executive
Sort a morning's inbox into urgent, delegate, defer and decline, and draft replies in the executive's tone, including polite declines for low-value meeting requests.
Drafts are read for tone, accuracy and confidentiality, and only go out once the executive has approved them under your agreed rules.
Using a synthetic executive inbox, calendar and meeting transcript, they resolve two clashing meetings, produce a briefing pack, extract actions with owners and draft three replies, then explain which AI suggestions they changed or rejected and why.
Available once your team member starts, scheduled when it suits you. No additional training fee.
Explore our AI training programme →Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Executive Assistant seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative monthly fee covering the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support, replacement and role-specific AI training. There is no separate recruitment fee; your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
What it costs
An offshore executive assistant through Sprint Labs costs about USD 1,200 to 2,350 per month, all-in.
| Seniority | Monthly all-in rate USD | Approximate monthly AUD | Local salary, Australia AUD per year | Local salary, US USD per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate | 1,200 to 1,550 | 1,714 to 2,214 | ||
| Mid-Senior | 1,450 to 1,800 | 2,072 to 2,572 | ||
| Senior | 1,750 to 2,350 | 2,500 to 3,357 |
USD ranges use the role's existing all-in rates across recruitment markets. AUD is an indicative conversion using Sprint Labs mid-market billing FX feed, dated 2026-10-21: AUD 1 = USD 0.69997032. Actual quotes use the rate at billing.
Local figures are annual salaries, not monthly all-in staffing costs. Blank cells mean no reliable, seniority-specific benchmark has been verified. No salary percentiles have been relabelled as seniority bands.
- Entry
- USD 1,300–1,550
- Mid
- USD 1,550–1,800
- Senior
- USD 1,900–2,350
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,500
- Mid
- USD 1,500–1,750
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,250
- Entry
- USD 1,200–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,650
- Senior
- USD 1,750–2,150
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,700
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,250
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing an executive assistant.
Test judgement, not obedience
Give a scenario: two meetings clash and both are important. The answer reveals whether they'll manage your calendar or just record it.
Written English under time pressure
Ask them to draft a polite decline to a low-value meeting request in ten minutes. Tone is the job.
Discretion
EAs see everything. Ask how they've handled confidential information before. Sprint Labs contracts include confidentiality clauses, but you still want to hear the instinct.
Add AI accent conversion for $1/hour per user.
If the role spends time on the phone, our AI accent conversion neutralises accent in real time so every call lands clearly with your customers — without losing the person behind the voice.
Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
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Questions about hiring an offshore executive assistant.
How is this different from hiring a VA on a freelance marketplace?
Managed contractor model. A Sprint Labs executive assistant is an independent contractor engaged by Sprint Labs, with contracts, payments, time off and support managed through us, which is why tenure can run in years rather than months. You also get a replacement guarantee, a single invoice, and no cross-border payment admin.
Can they work my hours?
Yes. Shift expectations are agreed in the Work Order before hiring. Manila and Jakarta give full overlap with Australia and New Zealand; US and UK coverage is arranged as an agreed shift with a differential built into the seat cost.
What AI skills will my executive assistant learn?
Your executive assistant learns to use AI to prepare meeting briefs, turn notes into owned actions and triage the executive's inbox with reply drafts. Every fact is checked against source material and nothing goes out in the executive's name without approval. Which AI tools they use depends on what your business approves.
Do I need a local entity to hire an executive assistant offshore?
No. Sprint Labs recruits and engages the executive assistant as an independent contractor, manages the contractor agreement, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding, and bills you one monthly fee in your own currency. You interview and choose, then direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house team member.
How long does it take to hire an executive assistant through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the contractor and gives you time to hand over work, but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Is AI training included with this placement?
Yes. Once your team member starts, they can enrol in role-specific AI training with no additional training fee. You choose when they enrol, and the self-paced modules run during their normal working hours.
Can the training align with our tools and AI policies?
Yes. The course teaches general skills on practice material, and how your team member applies them depends on the tools, access and AI policy your business approves. If certain work must stay AI-free, they follow your rules. Third-party software subscriptions aren't included and are agreed during onboarding.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
