Executive Assistant

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Salesforce is seeking an Executive Assistant to support three VP leaders in EMEA. The role involves managing calendars, coordinating travel, handling financial administration, managing meetings, drafting communications, collaborating with stakeholders, planning events, championing culture, and supporting projects. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting senior leaders in a fast-paced tech environment and be proficient in using AI tools to enhance productivity.

What you'd actually do

  1. Calendar Governance: Masterfully manage and optimize the calendars of three EMEA VPs, balancing competing priorities, shifting deadlines, and timezone complexities across a global matrix. Serve as a strategic gatekeeper, assessing the urgency of incoming requests to ensure the VPs' time is strictly focused on their key priorities.
  2. Global Travel Logistics: Coordinate complex, global travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, visas, and local transport.
  3. Financial Administration: Seamlessly manage, reconcile, and submit monthly expense reports and purchase orders in compliance with corporate policies and timeframes.
  4. Meeting Lifecycle Management: Proactively manage the end-to-end logistics for leadership meetings, including agenda setting, briefing materials preparation, room/virtual setup, and tracking actionable next steps.
  5. Executive Communication & Cascading Updates: Draft, review, and refine communications. Serve as a key conduit for information flow, effectively cascading key business updates and announcements to the wider team on behalf of VPs.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience as an Executive Assistant supporting senior leaders (VP+) within a fast-paced, global software or technology organization.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder calendars and intricate global travel logistics across a matrix organization, multi-timezone environment.
  • Proficient in adopting AI tools and technologies to streamline ways of working, maximize productivity, and optimize daily executive operations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to draft executive-ready updates and interface confidently with senior executives, internal stakeholders, and external partners.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and process execution, with a proven ability to manage competing priorities and pivot seamlessly in a dynamic environment.
  • A proven track record of exercising impeccable judgment and discretion when handling highly sensitive and confidential information.
  • A collaborative mindset with experience working effectively within large, cross-functional administrative teams to drive collective success.
  • Highly proficient in Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Drive) and virtual meeting platforms (Meet, Zoom & Webex.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools and technologies to streamline ways of working