Senior Executive Assistant

Summary

Join Canonical as a Senior Executive Assistant to support crucial projects and senior executives, utilizing excellent organisational and problem solving skills.

Requirements

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• A degree in a business or technical subject
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Previous experience providing comprehensive support to senior leadership
• Ability to quickly build rapport with key stakeholders
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Ability to travel up to four times a year for company events of up to two weeks duration
• Ability to learn new technology and software quickly
• Diligence, confidence, self-awareness and thoughtfulness

Responsibilities

• Support operations for one or more departments in the company
• Coordinate monthly reports and schedule meetings and interviews
• Organise and run international company events including logistics
• Manage quarterly and annual executive meetings
• Collaborate across teams on activities and initiatives
• Manage stakeholders across all levels of the organisation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in operations and executive support
• Project management experience
• Event management experience
• Travel industry experience

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events