Executive Housekeeper

West Village, Manhattan

Primarily Monday–Friday | Approximately 40 Hours Per Week

Schedule flexibility is essential, including occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed to accommodate the principal's schedule, entertaining, travel, and household needs.

$60–$70 Per Hour DOE

Comprehensive Benefits

We're pleased to represent a long-time client in the search for an experienced Executive Housekeeper to join his private residence in Manhattan's West Village.

This is a rare long-term opportunity to become part of a home where people take pride in maintaining an exceptional private residence. The successful candidate will serve as both a hands-on Executive Housekeeper and a trusted operational leader, helping ensure every aspect of the residence operates seamlessly while mentoring and supporting the housekeeping team.

This is a leadership role built on experience. You'll work alongside the housekeeping staff every day, leading by example, sharing your knowledge, building confidence, and helping establish consistent standards throughout the home. The best mentors understand that attention to the smallest details often makes the greatest difference.

Working closely with the principal and other household staff, you'll become an integral part of a collaborative team that values professionalism, discretion, mutual respect, and a shared commitment to excellence.

This position is best suited for a hospitality-minded professional who understands that while the schedule is generally Monday through Friday, private households occasionally require flexibility to accommodate the principal's schedule, travel, guests, entertaining, and special events.

Primary Responsibilities

Your day will include complete hands-on housekeeping, expert laundry and wardrobe care, preparing a light breakfast, supporting the private chef with food presentation, service, and cleanup as needed, preparing guest accommodations, overseeing household inventories, maintaining household supplies, receiving deliveries, coordinating returns, and ensuring the residence is always impeccably prepared before it's needed.

Additional responsibilities include packing and unpacking luggage for travel, coordinating dry cleaning and tailoring, maintaining the principal's wardrobe, preparing the residence before and after travel, and anticipating the principal's daily needs with minimal direction.

Equally important, you'll serve as the operational eyes and ears of the residence, recognizing maintenance concerns before they become larger issues, coordinating qualified service providers, scheduling preventative maintenance, and ensuring every aspect of the home continues to function at the highest level.

Responsibilities include coordinating preventative maintenance and repairs for:

●     HVAC systems

●     Plumbing

●     Electrical systems

●     Kitchen and laundry appliances

●     Crestron and Lutron home automation systems

●     Lutron smart lighting and automated shade controls operated through Crestron

●     Whole-home audio, video, and entertainment systems, including Apple TV, AirPlay, distributed speaker systems, and integrated AV controls

●     Internet and Wi-Fi service providers

●     Painting, carpentry, locksmiths, and other household vendors as needed

You'll maintain preventative maintenance schedules, coordinate vendor appointments, oversee service visits, maintain service records, follow up to ensure work is completed properly, and keep the principal informed of significant household issues or recommendations when appropriate. You'll also assist with organizing seasonal maintenance and ongoing household improvement projects.

The ideal candidate understands that maintaining a luxury residence is about anticipating needs rather than reacting to problems.

Household Technology

Experience working in technologically sophisticated homes is highly desirable.

Candidates should be comfortable operating:

●     Crestron and Lutron home automation systems

●     Lutron smart lighting and automated shade controls

●     Whole-home audio, video, and entertainment systems, including Apple TV, AirPlay, distributed speaker systems, and integrated AV controls

●     Premium residential appliances, including Sub-Zero, Wolf, Miele, Gaggenau, and similar luxury brands

You are not expected to perform technical repairs but should be comfortable operating these systems, recognizing when something is not functioning properly, performing basic troubleshooting when appropriate, and coordinating qualified vendors or service technicians to ensure issues are resolved promptly.

Leadership

This is a working leadership position.

You'll help train, mentor, and support the existing housekeeping staff while maintaining the highest personal standards yourself. You'll assist in organizing daily priorities, reinforcing household procedures, maintaining quality-control standards, and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment where everyone takes pride in their work. You'll lead by example and help ensure the residence operates smoothly, efficiently, and to the highest standards each day.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess:

●     Extensive experience working in luxury private residences

●     Exceptional housekeeping and laundry skills

●     Expert wardrobe and fine fabric care

●     Strong organizational and household management abilities

●     Experience coordinating household vendors, service providers, and preventative maintenance schedules

●     Ability to anticipate household needs and solve problems independently

●     Excellent written and spoken English

●     Strong communication and interpersonal skills

●     Comfort using smartphones, tablets, calendars, and household management software

●     Experience working with high-profile, public-facing, or ultra-high-net-worth principals preferred

●     Absolute discretion, sound judgment, and an unwavering commitment to confidentiality

●     Flexible availability, with the ability to adjust hours as needed to accommodate the principal's schedule, guests, entertaining, travel, and special events

●     A calm, positive demeanor with the ability to adapt as household priorities evolve

The Right Person

Just as important as experience is the kind of person you are.

We're seeking someone who is naturally organized, gracious, dependable, emotionally intelligent, and genuinely enjoys creating an environment where others feel comfortable and cared for. You take initiative without needing recognition, communicate thoughtfully, maintain complete confidentiality, and understand the unique expectations of working in a private home.

You notice what others miss. You solve problems before they become disruptions. You understand that true luxury is often invisible—and that the highest level of service is delivered quietly, consistently, and with pride. You remain calm under pressure, adapt easily to changing priorities, and appreciate that schedule flexibility is an important part of supporting a well-run private household.

Compensation & Benefits

●     $60–$70 per hour, depending on experience

●     Comprehensive benefits package

●     Primarily Monday–Friday, approximately 40 hours per week

●     Schedule flexibility is essential. Occasional evenings, weekends, and holiday coverage may be required based on the principal's schedule, travel, entertaining, or household needs.

●     Long-term opportunity with an exceptional private household