Exec Assistant to Chief Legal Officer

About the role

The Executive Assistant to eBay's Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer will serve as a trusted partner, strategic thought partner, and operational force multiplier for a fast-paced executive in a dynamic global company.

Responsibilities

• Manage the CLO's complex internal and external calendars, often making real-time adjustments and ensuring priorities are effectively balanced.
• Use sound judgment, business context, and strong prioritization skills to make decisions and optimize the executive's time.
• Anticipate needs, identify potential conflicts or obstacles, and proactively solve problems before they arise.
• Prepare, manage, and handle highly confidential information with integrity, discretion, professionalism, and diplomacy.
• Cook up and submit expense reports while proactively managing receipts and reimbursement documentation.
• Serve as a force multiplier by leveraging AI-powered tools to manage information flow, accelerate execution, improve efficiency, and enable focus on the highest-value priorities.
• Support the CLO and leadership team in meetings by capturing key actions, driving follow-up, and ensuring commitments are tracked through completion.
• Build strong relationships across the Legal organization and broader company, serving as a trusted resource and connector across teams and functions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience supporting C-suite executives, ideally including a Chief Legal Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, or similarly complex executive environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, judgment, discretion, and executive presence.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, make thoughtful trade-offs, and execute effectively in a fast-moving environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a proven track record of independently driving work to completion and delivering results with minimal direction.
• Demonstrated passion for continuous improvement, leveraging modern technologies, automation, and AI-enabled tools to streamline workflows, solve problems, increase efficiency, and enhance executive effectiveness.
• Strong technical proficiency, including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Slack, Google Workspace, and other productivity and collaboration platforms.
• Ability to handle confidential information with the highest degree of professionalism, subtlety, and tact.
• Extremely organized with exceptional follow-through and an ability to inspire confidence through consistent execution and reliability.
• Ability to maintain perspective, positivity, and a sense of humor in high-intensity situations.
• Pioneering ability to build trusted relationships and effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels across the organization.
• Thrives in a highly dynamic environment and demonstrates flexibility, responsiveness, resilience, and adaptability as priorities evolve.