Executive Assistant

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Jose, CA

Executive Assistant role supporting the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Technology Services. Responsibilities include managing the executive's time, coordinating meetings and events, handling correspondence, managing travel, drafting communications, and supporting team processes and onboarding. Requires strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with at least 10 years of executive support experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted partner to your Executive, understand key initiatives and priorities of the SVP’s organization, to be able to prioritize requests
  2. Proactively own the Executive's time and be a doorkeeper using judgment and discretion to ensure the SVP stays focused on key priorities
  3. Coordinate a range of meetings and events, including internal executive meetings and organization-wide training.
  4. Manage executive email correspondence, prioritize, sort, and process emails for communications, expediting response times and improving productivity
  5. Draft, assess, and distribute company-wide communications on behalf of the executive.

Skills

Required

  • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Proven experience engaging with executives and employees across all levels (10 years+ or equivalent) within a fast-paced, dynamic, global setting
  • Self-starter and self-motivated, energetic, proactive, resourceful
  • Collaborative attitude, demonstrating strong professionalism, and capable of maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information with integrity. Community-building mentality
  • Flexibility and exceptional ability to prioritize conflicting demands and make decisions with minimal direction
  • Ability to connect & executive presence, appropriately representing your SVP’s style of communication
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, ability to multitask and timely follow-through
  • Exceptional scheduling abilities and advanced proficiency use of Microsoft Office tools
  • Be forward-looking and planned in approaches
  • Effective consultative method for problem-solving and capability to achieve results with limited oversight
  • Demonstrates competence, practical approach, and effective communication skills, with executive experience and strong interpersonal abilities to engage various audiences and build relationships

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years+ or equivalent