As the Sr. Executive Assistant, you will directly support the VP of Field Engineering for APJ, serving as a strategic partner to help operationalize both day-to-day and long-term initiatives. You will work cross-functionally with internal teams and our executives to ensure we meet the needs of our customers, partners, and employees.
The impact you will have:
- Serve as the first point of contact for the VP and Field Engineering department, triaging, prioritizing, and responding to high-priority requests from internal and external stakeholders in a timely and professional manner.
- Ensure the VP is fully prepared for meetings, briefings, and travel, managing a dynamic, complex calendar across multiple international time zones and anticipating needs in advance.
- Enable effective time management for the VP by facilitating logistical arrangements for meetings, events, and travel—leveraging strong organizational skills to coordinate end-to-end execution.
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships across the company, building a robust network to optimize the efficiency and impact of the APJ Field Engineering team.
- Drive operational excellence and support strategic initiatives, ensuring accurate tracking and follow-through on action items, budget planning, reporting, and contract administration.
- Exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality while providing high-touch, white-glove support to executive leadership.
What we look out for:
- 7+ years supporting executives in global software or tech environments.
- Experience supporting VPs/SVPs in Sales Engineering or Engineering or Product roles.
- Proficiency with Gmail, Google Calendar, and cross-time zone scheduling.
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- High discretion, judgment, and process improvement capabilities.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
