Location: Arlington,VA, USA
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. We continually look for ways to invent and simplify to scale AWS security as it expands, while driving complex issues to resolution. Come join us and help build and scale our AWS Security team.
We are seeking a dedicated, multitasking, and customer obsessed individual to support Directors across the AWS Security team. As an Executive Assistant, you will work in a team environment, build effective working relationships inside and outside of the organization, while keeping abreast of general business objectives, policies, standards, services, facilities, procedures and related information in order to maintain a comprehensive awareness of the organization.
A high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information, and professionalism in dealing with leaders (at and outside Amazon) is important, as is the ability to be flexible and change direction seamlessly and handle multiple tasks at once. You will complete high volumes of tasks with minimal guidance or supervision while maintaining awareness of deadline sensitivity. As such, the candidate must be skilled at anticipating problems, creating contingency plans, managing multiple priorities, problem solving and organizing logistics.
A successful candidate will want to take on varied and exciting new projects and also learn new skills. You will need to take effective action without having to know the total picture, and efficiently and proactively solve difficult or complex problems that affect people within the department or other related groups.
Key job responsibilities
- Effectively and proactively support Director, and other team members.
- Complex calendar management
- Expense reimbursement
- Coordinate global schedules, travel arrangements, and seamless meeting logistics such as video conferencing and conference calls for internal and external meetings.
- Organize, prioritize and appropriately handle time-sensitive, confidential information and ensure the action required is addressed in a timely manner.
- Assist with event coordination (including team meetings and morale events)
- Catering and supply orders
Basic Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
- High school or equivalent diploma
- 5+ years of executive assistant experience
- Must be a United States citizen.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company
- Experience designing processes to maximize efficiency
- Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree
- Prior program management experience
- Strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to improve processes to maximize efficiency
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments at any given time
- High levels of integrity and discretion
- Highly motivated, organized individual who is able to work effectively with minimal supervision
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