Join the team behind one of Microsoft's most iconic products.
PowerPoint is reimagining how people communicate, create, and collaborate in the era of AI. We're looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to support our VP of Engineering. As a trusted partner to leaders, you'll help enable strategic priorities, navigate a fast-moving business, and contribute to innovations shaping the future of PowerPoint.
In this role, you'll be more than a calendar manager. You'll serve as a trusted business partner who helps orchestrate team operations, enables strategic priorities, and creates world class experiences for employees and leaders. From supporting global travel and executive rhythms to planning team events and helping shape culture, you'll have a direct impact on a team that builds experiences used by millions around the world.
If you're highly organized, proactive, adaptable, and enjoy bringing people together while helping leaders operate to their highest potential, we'd love to meet you.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Executive Support & Calendar Operations
Serve as a trusted partner to VP of Engineering by managing complex calendar, aligning priorities, and optimizing time across competing business demands.
Anticipate scheduling needs, resolve conflicts proactively, and ensure the executive's time is allocated effectively against key business objectives.
Prepare leader for meetings by coordinating agendas, briefing materials, action items, and follow-up plans.
Partner across teams, organizations, and executive offices to coordinate leadership meetings, all-hands, offsites, morale events, and other engagement activities.
Drive end-to-end planning and execution for team events, ensuring timelines, logistics, communications, and deliverables are completed successfully.
Business Operations & Rhythm of Business
Support and execute the Engineering team's Rhythm of Business (ROB), ensuring recurring processes, reviews, and leadership cadences run efficiently and consistently.
Exercise sound judgment when handling sensitive or confidential information and communications.
Collaborate with executive administrators, business managers, and stakeholders to continuously improve operating rhythms and business processes.
Apply business context and prioritization skills to manage competing requests, navigate scheduling challenges, and ensure leaders remain informed of key decisions and tradeoffs.
Track deliverables, follow-ups, and organizational commitments to help drive accountability across the leadership team.
Team Operations, Travel & Resource Management
Partner with leaders, Business Managers, HR, Finance, and recruiting teams to support organizational operations, including headcount processes, hiring activities, onboarding, and offboarding.
Coordinate domestic and international travel, ensuring seamless logistics while complying with company travel policies and destination-specific requirements.
Build detailed travel itineraries, meeting agendas, and engagement plans to maximize efficiency and impact during business travel.
Support budget and operational planning activities, including expense management, purchase orders, and tracking of team-related investments.
Maintain distribution lists, security groups, and organizational data to support effective team collaboration and communication.
Assist with workplace technology, equipment coordination, and other administrative operational needs across the organization.
Space Planning & Workplace Coordination
Partner with facilities, space planners, and administrative teams to support seating strategies, office moves, space utilization, and workplace planning initiatives.
Maintain accurate organizational space data and help coordinate workspace changes, meeting room readiness, and team growth requirements.
Support a productive and inclusive workplace experience by helping identify and address space-related needs across the team.
Culture & Employee Experience
Foster a positive team culture through thoughtful planning and execution of employee engagement initiatives, recognition programs, community events, and team-building activities.
Partner with leaders to create meaningful experiences that strengthen connection, collaboration, and inclusion across geographically distributed teams.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years administrative, business support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper-level management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology)
- OR equivalent experience.
Business Support ATR-D - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $31.49 - $51.97 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $42.93 - $59.33 per hour.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of administrative, business support, or customer service experience involving executive or upper-level management support, scheduling meetings and events, travel management, and administration
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Business Administration, Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, Psychology, or Sociology, or equivalent experience
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
Microsoft Insights
What We Do
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.
