Sr Executive Assistant, SVP IT Business Applications

Job Summary

As a Senior Executive Assistant at Palo Alto Networks, you will serve as a trusted partner to the SVP, IT Business Applications. helping drive organizational effectiveness, navigate competing priorities, and enable seamless execution across a fast-paced, global business.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted partner to the SVP, helping maximize leadership effectiveness and ensuring priorities are executed efficiently.
• Manage a highly dynamic calendar, exercising sound judgment to balance competing priorities and align leadership time to the most impactful business objectives.
• Cook up and execute on the calendar, coordinating domestic and international travel, executive meetings, presentations, and communications with a high degree of accuracy, professionalism, and discretion.
• Partner across teams and functions to drive communication, coordination, and execution of annual planning activities, special projects, and business initiatives.
• Anticipate shifting priorities, proactively resolve challenges, and create structure within a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Support the planning and execution of leadership meetings, team events, and organizational activities that foster engagement, collaboration, and culture.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, communication, and operating rhythms to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with the Executive Assistant community to share best practices, coordinate priorities, and ensure a seamless experience across leadership teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience supporting senior executives, including experience supporting SVP-level leaders within a fast-paced, global organization.
• Proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex global calendars, executive travel, leadership meetings, and business operations with a high degree of professionalism, judgment, and discretion.
• Resourceful, adaptable, and proactive, with a track record of anticipating needs, solving problems, and driving work forward with minimal direction.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, expense management systems (e.g., Concur), and enterprise calendaring tools.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Pay

The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. $101,000.00 - $163,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.