Executive Assistant

About This Role

Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 125 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.

At Strava, we’ve got a mission to connect the world through movement, and we’re committed to providing the endless motivation for athletes of all levels to live their best active life. In achieving this mission, we are seeking an Executive Assistant to the CEO. This person will serve as a right hand support to the CEO, handling all aspects of the calendar and providing a range of administrative support. A typical day can include: balancing calendars, working with Strava’s leadership team to balance priorities, coordinating activities with Strava’s Board of Directors, arranging travel and events, managing expenses, and partnering with other Executive Assistants to help across a range of projects and events.

Our team is working every day to build a truly diverse and equitable workplace, and to support Strava’s value of Antiracism. It is important that whoever joins our team in this Executive Assistant role shares similar passions and is committed to helping incorporate antiracist strategies into our culture and to all of our processes over time.

This is role hybrid based in San Francisco, CA. To review more information about our benefits and compensation, please click here.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

• Serve as the lead administrative business partner to Strava’s CEO
• Be thought partner to the CEO’s Chief of Staff
• Manage the CEO’s complex calendar and scheduling requirements
• Interact with the Board of Directors and other influential leaders
• Regularly balance and prioritize initiatives, drive completion of key deliverables, follow up on outstanding items
• Prepare meeting materials and coordinate logistics
• Effectively answer inquiries of executive leadership and stakeholders and interact effectively with them as well by phone, in writing, and in person
• Be a problem solver while supporting our excellent company culture
• Coordinate and arrange travel (e.g., international, multi‐city travel) including (but not limited to) air, hotel, and rental cars
• Complete expense reports, purchase orders, and contracts, and manage corporate card purchases; participation in budget planning and tracking as needed
• Assist with special projects and events as needed

We’re excited about you because:

• You have 8+ years of experience assisting senior leaders, with experience at the executive and/or board level
• You maintain a positive, open-minded and collaborative approach to support a growing organization
• You are honest, trustworthy, dependable, and able to safeguard sensitive information
• You are incredibly organized and have outstanding attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects which are all at different stages of the process
• You have an excellent customer service orientation: you are friendly, responsive and eager to help a variety of stakeholders
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an appropriate blend of professionalism and friendliness
• You are committed to learning about antiracism and supporting Strava’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
• You have a high proficiency using Google Suite and other organizational tools