Senior Executive Assistant

Senior Executive Assistant
Location: Hybrid/Remote/WFH (Bay Area Preferred)

About Veza

Veza is the identity security company, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant, achieve least privilege, and de-risk the breach. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security posture, with use cases in privileged access management (PAM), non-human identities (NHI), cloud entitlements (CIEM), data system entitlements, SaaS entitlements, and next-gen IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an energetic, personable, and highly-organized Executive Assistant to the Co-Founder & CEO of Veza. As our EA, your responsibility is to enhance our effectiveness through administrative support and to represent Veza and the Founder/CEO to others both internally and externally.  As a partner to the Founder/ CEO and his success, you will have a high amount of visibility and will work cross-functionally in a hyper growth, fast paced startup environment

You will

• Provide top level executive support to the Founder/CEO
• Heavy calendar management: set appointments, prioritize & juggle appointments in the moment
• Must be able to independently identify and resolve issues with calendar and schedule. Able to proactively anticipate sequencing of meetings.  Managing across multiple time zones
• Drive administrative tasks including correspondence, drafting emails/documents, spreadsheet work and document management/file organization
• Use problem solving techniques, tact and discretion when handling telephone calls, making travel arrangements, scheduling meetings and managing other requests for information
• Strategic time management for Founder/CEO calendar
• Handle complex domestic and international travel coordination
• Coordination of special events (Board meetings, Leadership Offsite, QBRs, etc.)
• Use problem solving techniques, tact and discretion when handling telephone calls, making travel arrangements, scheduling meetings and managing other requests for information
• Handle confidential and non-routine information with utmost discretion
• Develops, implements, and executes projects related to Founder/CEO focus areas 
• Consistently works on complex assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues
• Act as a liaison between the executive and key business partners to facilitate calendar invites, communications, and information sharing
• Coordinate aspects of onsite and offsite meetings and events
• Must be able to work flexible hours on occasion

 

You have

Education

• BA/BS required or equivalent experience

Experience

• 10+ years of CEO/Executive Administrative support in both an early stage startup and fast growth is required
• Must have hands-on 4+ years experience supporting Founder / CEO 

Skills

• Ability to handle multiple priorities
• Collaborative with other executive assistants
• Demonstrate high integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated dependa