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Locations
In this role you can work from Bellevue, Washington United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for an experienced Executive Assistant (EA) to support one of our executive leaders. This role is responsible for coordinating and planning executive scheduling, organizing and maintaining the operations rhythm of business, supporting and planning large-scale trips and expense reporting, and overseeing workback schedules and necessary checkpoints for key tasks, among other administrative activities. You’ll be expected to make independent decisions as it relates to balancing meeting requests and urgent escalations, as well as drive efficiencies across the organization. 

This role will report directly to the executive and partner closely with leaders across the team, as well as the broader organization. The position requires the ability to create and drive a project, such as a meeting, offsite, tradeshow, or team-building activity from start to finish. You’ll be expected to coordinate all travel arrangements as well as be onsite for specific engagements. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, analytically-minded, fast-paced, and detail-oriented individual that is excited to ensure operational excellence.

This is a hybrid (remote/onsite) role based in Bellevue, WA and will require regular onsite support in our Bellevue office.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Executive’s calendar based on an understanding of business goals and executive needs. Make independent decisions to prioritize meeting requests and urgent escalations, while balancing the overall rhythm of business.
• Manage meeting and offsite logistics for consistent implementation, including workback schedules and necessary checkpoints, development of communication cascades, meeting notes and action items. 
• Coordinate travel arrangements, including accommodations, transportation, required documentation, and communications to domestic and international stakeholders, as well as provide daily itineraries. Act as a stand-by resource during business travel.
• Represent the leader and act as an extension of the leader's brand and GitHub's core values through written and verbal messaging. Proactively communicate and act as a liaison between executives, teams, and other business partners to share information and best practices that drive efficiency across organizations. 
• Execute the rhythm of the business in collaboration with the Chief of Staff, maintaining an organization-wide calendar with key dates and deliverables, and ensuring accurate and timely communications for required activities, including trainings and reviews.
• Provide high-level guidance to address complex issues with meeting and offsite preparation and ensure problems are mitigated in a timely fashion.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of administrative, business support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings and events, travel management, expense reporting, and administration work for executive level management.
• Ability to travel up to 20% to support business and/or customer needs, including local, domestic and international locations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to oversee compliance to various standards, procedures, rules, and regulations (i.e. gathering weekly deliverables from leaders).
• Ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, defining and determining an appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision. 
• Ability to verify the accuracy and completeness of detailed information in documents and meeting requests.
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion by showing an awareness of the likely consequences, the reactions of others, and the legal implications of one's own actions.

Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $58,800.00 - USD $156,000.00 /Yr.
In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!