The Executive Assistant provides executive and administrative support to the CFO/COO and direct reports. The dynamic candidate we seek will be organized, detail-oriented, flexible, proactive, forward-thinking, committed, and passionate about his/her work. Confidentiality and discretion are key. The candidate must be extremely professional and possess great communication skills. Due to the visibility of the position, the candidate needs to work well with all levels of company staff, as well as executives and support staff in high-profile partner organizations.

What You’ll Do

• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Provide executive assistance to CFO/COO and VPs, as well as other executives as needed.  Includes managing and maintaining calendars, scheduling complex travel and accommodations, managing day to day needs of Executive’s direct reports, and serving as the primary point of contact for all administrative and coordination needs
• Determine the best use of Executive’s time, accomplishing all set objectives while monitoring balance and reminding of all priorities
• Create the best experience possible for C level and Senior executives and customers visiting our office for meetings with SendGrid teams
• Screen and direct other Executive Assistants in other locations on Board of Directors, Executive Leadership, Banker Conferences, All Employee / All Hands Prep / Communications, Company Events and messaging the SendGrid Leadership direction to all team members for enhanced engagement
• Stay on top of expense reporting for executives as needed
• Maintain high level of confidentiality
• Take the initiative to anticipate problems, removing obstacles before they arise by initiating projects that could resolve future issues
• Help the CFO/COO with agenda setting for routine meetings as well as prepare content for those meetings as requested

About You

• Tenacious - you know how to take the bull by the horns and get stuff done
• Hospitable - not just for guests and visitors. You take care of your awesome fellow co-workers making their working lives easier and more productive.  You wear your representation of our ELT as a badge of honor, and always model our values.
• Magical - you make the impossible look possible...every day
• Flexible - we're a fast moving, fast growing company
• Enthusiastic - The contagious kind
• Collaborative - work with other Executives and their Executive Assistants to insure coordinated planning and scheduling
• Problem solver - If there was a problem, you’ll solve it. But you already put out that fire before anyone even knew.
• Organized - ability to set priorities efficiently
• Energetic - you enjoy a fast-paced environment and managing many conflicting priorities, without outwardly showing frustration.
• Maintain Confidentiality - you can comfortably compartmentalize information that’s confidential and maintain strong working relationships with people whom may not share that same information access.
• 10+ years of experience handling a wide range of administrative and “C” Level executive support tasks
• Prior Public Company Experience, supporting a CEO or CFO.
• Experience interacting and engaging with public investors
• Proficient in MAC, Google Apps, Sheets, Docs, Forms, Slides, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision
• The ability to work with team members at all levels, sometimes under pressure, while remaining proactive, resourceful and efficient
• High attention to detail

SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

About SendGrid

Founded in 2009, SendGrid built its reputation solving a key pain point of delivering transactional emails that respond to customer behavior (purchase receipts, order confirmations, password resets, etc.). In 2015, SendGrid expanded the platform into marketing email use cases, enabling customers to have one platform for both transactional and marketing email. We deliver over 35 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Yelp.