Executive Assistant: International Government Affairs

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Salesforce is seeking an Executive Assistant for their International Government Affairs team. This role will support the Vice President of International Government Affairs and Global Public Policy, acting as a strategic partner to maximize leadership impact. Responsibilities include managing internal approvals, expense processing, information flow, communication architecture, global operations and logistics (including complex international travel), and team coordination. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of administrative experience, strong organizational and communication skills, and experience with multi-cultural teams in a global software organization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help manage all internal approval proceedings (contracts, headcount, budget requests, etc.).
  2. Own the end-to-end expense process, ensuring accuracy across different currencies and compliance with company policy.
  3. Ensure that key updates from the manager reach the team, and that urgent "bottom-up" information reaches the manager.
  4. Structure and manage how the team communicates and collaborates with the other teams.
  5. Manage a complex agenda by combining a high volume of internal and external stakeholder meetings, overseeing relationships with highly sensitive and multi cultural stakeholders (government officials, C-Suite level), and helping to prioritize and manage agenda pressure.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum of 5+ years of applicable administrative experience, ideally from a global software organization.
  • Skillful execution of administrative activities, with high attention to detail, organization and process.
  • Experience with multi-cultural teams.
  • Strong teamwork skills; and a confident ability to offer suggestions and improvements to process and work very collaboratively with others.
  • Strong relationship management skills, ability to build a personal network throughout the company.
  • Strong verbal and written communication. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with senior leaders and external partners.
  • Proven track record of supporting executive leadership within dynamic, high-growth environments, including high-stakes engagement with senior public and private sector stakeholders.
  • Working proficiency of Google Suite (Gmail, Docs, Drive, GMeet).
  • Must be in one of the listed locations and open to being hybrid in office 3 days per week.

Nice to have

  • Experience using Quip, Slack, Salesforce and Tableau

What the JD emphasized

  • high-impact
  • strategic engagement
  • strategic partner
  • complex internal ecosystems
  • orchestrating global logistics
  • distributed 20-person team remains synchronized
  • operational rhythm of a high-velocity global department
  • Fixer
  • high attention to detail, organization and process
  • multi-cultural teams
  • high-volume calendar across EMEA, APAC, and ASEAN
  • high-volume of internal and external stakeholder meetings
  • highly sensitive and multi cultural stakeholders
  • multi-leg international trips
  • distributed group
  • high-stakes engagement with senior public and private sector stakeholders
  • Discreet & Diplomatic
  • total confidentiality
  • Agility and flexibility in response to changing priorities and needs
  • manage projects, work under pressure and consistently make deadlines
  • continuously acquire new competencies and accept new challenges
  • comprehend the global DNA of the company and its organizations
  • follow-through