Senior Executive Assistant Job in San Francisco
Senior Executive Assistant role in SF
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Job Description
Candidates can be based in San Francisco or Seattle
We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.
About the Role
We are hiring a San Francisco or Seattle based Senior Executive Assistant to support 3 executives in our Artificial Intelligence department. Our ideal candidate will thrive in our innovative, fast-paced, and growing organization, expanding their skills and abilities in pace with the company. You could be a great fit if you are someone who has experience supporting an Engineering team previously, and if you are looking to help cultivate connectivity across the department, drive efficiency and bring productivity to the next level.
What you’ll be doing:
What you must have:
Bonus points!
We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.
We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.
About the Role
We are hiring a San Francisco or Seattle based Senior Executive Assistant to support 3 executives in our Artificial Intelligence department. Our ideal candidate will thrive in our innovative, fast-paced, and growing organization, expanding their skills and abilities in pace with the company. You could be a great fit if you are someone who has experience supporting an Engineering team previously, and if you are looking to help cultivate connectivity across the department, drive efficiency and bring productivity to the next level.
What you’ll be doing:
- Act as gatekeeper, time-advocate, and liaison for Executive
- Understanding the priorities and objectives of your leader and their teams
- Create presentation materials
- Plan, coordinate, and facilitate various meetings, functions, and events including quarterly retreats and team-building offsites
- Handle multiple requests for Executive’s time, using strong decision-making skills in managing priority of requests, escalating as necessary for resolution
- Manage an extremely dynamic and ever-changing calendar and schedule
- Manage/lead team meetings, team calendars, and team Slack channels
- Help support cross-functional alignment within the Cruise organization
- Act as a team point person: handle team requests, problem-solve, and assist with keeping the team on-track and organized
- Help create and maintain communication within the team and broader org
- Help drive recruitment and hiring in partnership with executive
- Be a culture-contributor: oversee department culture initiatives, track, highlight, and celebrate important team cultural/career moments
What you must have:
- BA or BS degree
- 4+ years of related work experience
- Working knowledge of Engineering organizations
- Extremely strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong knowledge of G-Suite
- Confident self-starter that can take a task and run with it with limited supervision from executive
- Able to anticipate problems and/or needs of your executive and proactively offer solutions and make recommendations
- Acute attention to detail
- Able to maintain high levels of confidentiality
- Creative problem solver able to think outside the box
- Excellent calendar management skills, including the coordination of complex meetings and designing scalable operating cadences
- Availability to perform job duties outside of normal business hours, when necessary
- Comfortable adapting to a fast pace working environment
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or Greater Seattle Area and comfortable with a hybrid work environment (remote/in-office flexible)
Bonus points!
- Project Management Experience
How to apply for this job
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