Administrative Assistant

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Berlin, Germany · Engineering

Administrative Assistant role at Snowflake, supporting Engineering Directors. Focuses on calendar management, coordinating engineering cadences, operationalizing efficiency, global collaboration, event ownership, financial stewardship, and strategic communication. Requires 4+ years of experience, strong English and German language skills, agility, problem-solving, precision, and communication. Experience with AI agents is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Master the Calendar: Effectively manage and maintain complex calendars for 2–3 Senior leaders, prioritizing a high volume of tasks across EMEA and US PST time zones.
  2. Drive Engineering Cadence: Coordinate recurring engineering cycles, including staff meetings, technical reviews, updates, and calibrations.
  3. Operationalize Efficiency: Build responsiveness into existing operations and define new regional strategies, such as optimizing onboarding and external event organization.
  4. Global Collaboration: Partner closely with our US-based Admin team to ensure seamless cross-regional collaboration and alignment on global initiatives.
  5. Event & Project Ownership: Execute high-visibility events, from week-long org-wide Hackathons to local team offsites (managing location, menu, and logistics). Lead small to large-scale projects including space management and headcount tracking.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 4+ years of relevant work experience in direct executive support, program/project management
  • Proficient English
  • Strong communication in German
  • Agility: Proven ability to manage time efficiently and prioritize multiple stakeholders in an extremely fast-paced environment
  • Problem-Solving: Experience identifying operational gaps and initiating the systems or programs needed to bridge them
  • Precision: Extreme attention to detail, highly organized, and responsive
  • Communication: Very strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; comfortable interacting with all levels of management, vendors, and customers
  • Flexibility: Ability to adjust to rapidly emerging/changing priorities and to anticipate the requirements of your execs

Nice to have

  • experience with AI agents will be a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of relevant work experience
  • Strong communication in German is essential
  • Proven ability to manage time efficiently and prioritize multiple stakeholders in an extremely fast-paced environment
  • Experience identifying operational gaps and initiating the systems or programs needed to bridge them
  • Extreme attention to detail, highly organized, and responsive
  • Very strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills