Executive Assistant (Speciality Travel & Events)
- Source: Navan
- Navan
- $83,700 to $186,000 /yr
- On-site
- New York City
- Full-Time
- Mid level
Job Description
- We’re looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to support two senior leaders at the center of one of our company’s highest-growth and most strategic areas: Specialty Travel & Events
- The SVP of Product, Specialty Travel & Events is based in San Francisco, while the SVP & GM of Meetings & Events is based in London. You’ll be based in New York and serve as the connective tissue between both leaders, helping them operate effectively across time zones, teams, and priorities
- You’ll be a strategic operator, trusted partner, and execution force multiplier for two executives navigating a fast-moving product and business organization
- Own two complex, global calendars. Manage constantly shifting schedules across San Francisco, New York, London, and Berlin, making smart tradeoffs about where executive time is best spent
- Prioritize ruthlessly. Protect time for deep work, product and operations strategy, customer conversations, leadership, and other high-leverage activities
- Schedule with context. Understand why a meeting is happening, who needs to be there, and what needs to happen before it occurs rather than simply moving boxes around on a calendar
- Prepare executives for every meeting. Gather or draft agendas, pre-reads, metrics, decisions, and relevant context from stakeholders ahead of time so both executives walk into meetings prepared to make decisions
- Be the first line of defense for their inboxes. Filter cold outreach, supplier inquiries, scheduling requests, and other inbound noise; determine what requires attention and respond or route appropriately; send communications on behalf of the executives
- Own high-impact events end to end. Plan and execute org and team offsites, global all-hands, leadership meetings, customer events, and partnership events–from venue selection and logistics through day-of execution
- Coordinate global travel. Manage seamless end-to-end travel logistics for your execs, including flights, hotels, ground transportation, and dinners
- Own expense operations. Ensure expenses are submitted, reconciled, and resolved accurately and on time
- Run leadership operating rhythms. Track action items and decisions coming out of leadership meetings and follow up with cross-functional partners to ensure commitments turn into outcomes
- Become a trusted extension of both executives. Understand their priorities, working styles, communication preferences, and operating rhythms well enough to anticipate needs before they are articulated
- Connect the dots across organizations. Build strong relationships with Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Finance, People, and other cross-functional teams to make things happen quickly
- Create leverage. Constantly look for ways to eliminate friction, improve operating processes, and give the executives more time to focus on strategy, customers, products, and their teams
- Operate with discretion. Handle sensitive business and personnel information with sound judgment and absolute confidentiality
Benefits
- Parental leave
- Commuter benefits
- Healthcare
- Flexible Vacation
- Health and Wellness
- Fuel for Connection
- Pet Friendly
- IATAN (travel-related discounts)
- 401k (retirement plan)
- Connectivity Allowance
- Learning & Development- You’ll need to be equally comfortable managing a complex calendar, coordinating a global offsite, preparing an executive for a critical meeting, and chasing down an action item
- Calm under pressure. Plans change. Flights get cancelled. Executives get double-booked. Priorities shift. You stay composed, make decisions, and keep moving
- Proactive by default. You see around corners, anticipate problems, and solve them before they become problems
- High standards, low ego, seriously fun. We expect excellence, move quickly, and take the work seriously. We also believe the best teams have a lot of fun together
- Detail orientation without losing the big picture. You sweat the details while understanding why they matter
- Exceptional communication skills. You write clearly, concisely, and with the right level of urgency. You can draft executive communications that sound like the executive
- Ruthless prioritization. You can distinguish urgent from important, make smart tradeoffs, and protect executive attention without needing constant direction
- Global operating mindset. You’re comfortable working across time zones and cultures and understand that “9 a.m.” can mean very different things depending on who is invo…
Skills
- greenhouse
