At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard. You can find more information about working at Percona here.
Job Summary:
The Executive Assistant is responsible for maintaining the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) 's schedule and providing backup administrative support to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). This role has many responsibilities and is key to ensuring the CEO has strong administrative support to sustain Percona's success.
What You Will Do:
Manage and maintain the calendar of Percona’s CEO
Assist the CEO in producing documents, project plans, and presentations as required
Assist the CEO in preparing for board meetings, including the preparation of board presentations and other associated material
Collaborate with the CEO and Percona board to coordinate meetings as required
Manage and maintain annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly regular meetings as required (for example, departmental/meetings and monthly all company calls)
Support the CEO’s conference talk submissions and preparation
Assist with travel arrangements for CEO as required
Includes booking reservations with airlines and accommodations
Provide Zoom links, attend meetings, take minutes, and publish decisions and actions
As needed, assist with email backlog to ensure timely triaging and response to priority communications
Manage and submit expense reports as requested
Facilitate follow-through on meeting decisions and action items
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum requirements
Minimum of 3 Years of experience in an EA or administrative support role)
Speak/write fluent English
Ability to work remotely with alignment to the Central European Timezone
Strong organizational skills
Prior experience supporting executive leadership in a technology or software company preferred
Other requirements
Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive information
Strong written communication skills
Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal direction
Demonstrated ability to accept feedback from others
Communicates clearly and professionally to convey confidence even when under pressure
Outgoing and friendly personality, as you will be representing Percona and our CEO in this role
Ability to be flexible when the situation requires you to
Ability to navigate ambiguity and work collaboratively with others to identify solutions
What Will Make You Stand Out:
You know how to take initiative and get things done. You demonstrate humility along with a hunger for continuous improvement.
Why Percona?
At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.
Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.
If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!
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Skills Required
- Minimum of 3 years experience in an EA or administrative support role
- Speak and write fluent English
- Ability to work remotely aligned to the Central European Timezone
- Strong organizational skills
- Prior experience supporting executive leadership in a technology or software company
- Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality handling sensitive information
- Strong written communication skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction
- Ability to accept feedback and communicate professionally under pressure
- Outgoing and friendly personality representing the CEO
- Flexibility and ability to navigate ambiguity while collaborating to identify solutions
What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks. Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies. Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases. Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
