Executive Assistant
Databricks · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the Role
Databricks is looking for a highly capable, process-driven, and proactive Executive Assistant to support a Senior Leader within Product & Engineering, while also supporting our SVP of Corporate Development & Ventures.
Responsibilities
- Calendar Management: Organizes all meetings across international time zones, including but not limited to internal engineering team meetings, customer meetings, internal business partners, and external venture/M&A requests.
- Request Tracking & SLAs: Builds and maintains records of all meeting requests and closes out all requests in a timely manner. Keeps to a strong SLA on responding to requests from both internal technical staff and external stakeholders (founders, investors, bankers).
- Meeting Preparation: Ensures all meeting invites have the appropriate details, context, and documentation to have an effective meeting, protecting executive focus time.
- Event Management: Manages offsite meetings, events, and programs in support of the leaders and their staff, ensuring team events, leadership dinners, or investor meetings are executed with polish and precision.
- Operational & Travel Support: Manages briefing materials, executive correspondence, and select domestic and international travel, anticipating needs before they are expressed to keep leaders operating at full capacity.
- Confidentiality & Discretion: Handles sensitive, non-public information—including product roadmaps, M&A targets, term sheets, and board-level matters—with the judgment and professionalism appropriate to that trust.
- Team Coverage: May be required to support other executive staff members if there's a coverage gap due to PTO, sickness, maternity leave, or other absences.
Competencies & Qualifications
- Minimum of 7+ years of applicable executive administrative experience, ideally from a global software organization.
- Proven track record working with VPs/SVPs in Engineering and Product in large organizations.
- Experience working with VPs managing over 2000+ people in engineering, customer-facing, and/or technical roles.
- Ability to work at a fast pace with shifting priorities in a hyper-scaling, high-growth company, with experience directly supporting an executive staff member.
- High attention to detail, organization, and process abilities; structured thinking with an operational mindset that can bring order to chaos.
- Strong calendaring skills (Gmail and Google Calendar experience mandatory).
- Strong relationship management skills and the ability to build a personal network throughout the company; you earn trust quickly and know how to work through organizational complexity.
- Strong teamwork skills, and a confident ability to offer suggestions and improvements to the process, and work very collaboratively with others.
- Strong oral and written communication with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with senior leaders, developers, and external partners.
- Technology Fluency: A genuine curiosity about technology, high-growth companies, and the AI/data landscape. Comfortable dealing with engineers, technical leaders, and opinionated entrepreneurs.