Senior Executive Assistant - job 1 of 2

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in San Francisco or Mountain View. 

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. 

We are looking for a Senior Executive Assistant to provide administrative and organizational support to the Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer. In this role, you’ll work directly with the CMO and will be responsible for a mix of administrative and operational activities. The ideal candidate will be proactive, organized, able to maintain strict confidentiality of corporate and personal information, and bring a blend of professionalism, passion and flexibility to the role.   

Responsibilities:   

• Plan, organize and manage executive calendar (resolve conflicts and protect / align time with priorities)   
• Organize and ensure content preparedness for internal and external meetings and special events, including all hands, off-sites, culture events, and team building   
• Actively participate in meetings for notetaking and follow-up documentation  
• Anticipate critical rhythm of the business initiatives   
• Coordinate all domestic and international travel arrangements    
• Manage and reconcile expense reports, purchase orders and procurement requisitions in accordance with budget and department and company-wide policies and standards and    
• Partner with communications and public relations teams and others on company-wide and external communications   
• Proficiently answer, screen and route internal and external correspondence, requests, subpoenas and other communications   
• Provide back-up support for other executive assistants when needed and champion the admin community    
• Maintain email distribution lists / aliases   
• Support special projects as needed   
• Act as a point of contact with workplace services to meet facility needs for the team   
• Take leadership role to improve structure, efficiency, and execution of the organization   
• Drive changes in systems, tools and processes, and establish and share best practices   
• Maintain an advanced degree of confidentiality along with excellent judgement, discretion and a high degree of maturity/professionalism   
• Apply judgment with full understanding of urgency and priorities of the business, routinely needing to multi-task with little to no direction  

Basic Qualifications:   

• 5+ years of experience at a senior executive administrative level 
• 3+ years of experience supporting VP+   

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Experience working as a trusted business partner to a c-suite level executive or global CMO 
• Thrives in an exceptional fast-paced environment, ability to thrive in ambiguity   
• High operational ability to execute quickly with strong attention to detail and accuracy 
• Analytical and organizational  
• Exceptional Executive level communication with a focus on brevity and clarity 
• Ability to professionally interact with senior leaders and anticipate their needs  
• Demonstrates ability to be proactive, take initiative, and exercise good judgment, discretion and confidentiality in all tasks  
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, and work within deadlines and handle high level of ambiguity  
• Consistently able to solve complex problems creatively after in-depth evaluation of variable factors  
• Collaborative spirit with ability to act as a team culture steward and build relationships, mentor and work effectively across Exec Admin team at LinkedIn   
• Demonstrates excellent understanding of how an organization operates across functions  
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and familiarity with cloud-based applications (SharePoint)   
• Ability to set up and manage virtual meetings via MS Teams and Zoom  

Suggested Skills:  

• Organization  
• Strategic Thinking  
• Detail-oriented 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.    

The pay range for this role is $103,000 to $166,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.    

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

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