Executive Assistant - San Francisco

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

As an Executive Assistant, you will be supporting the Field CTO, SVP, Marketing, and SVP, Customer Success. You’ll also support the leadership team as needed. You'll assume a wide range of day-to-day responsibilities, all of which will require independent coordination, prioritization and administrative support. Using your exceptional communication skills and multitasking abilities, you'll effectively help manage their time and help make the team as efficient as possible. This role reports to the Field CTO.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable at the center of the day-to-day activities of a high-velocity global Field and Marketing teams, anticipating the needs of the leadership team, with a strong bias for action to identify and resolve any potential administrative or operational issues before they arise.

About The Role

Manage calendars, including scheduling internal and external meetings and resolving scheduling conflictsHelp organize and coordinate communications. Email, LInkedIn, Slack, etc.Ensure the Executives are briefed and prepared for key meetings and planned activitiesArrange domestic and international travel, often last minute and changingPrepare expense reports in a timely fashionActively attend and participate in both virtual and in-person meetings when appropriate, with follow up on action itemsCoordinate Customer Advisory Board meetings both internally and externallyHelp organize and execute internal team eventsPerform other tasks and projects as needed

About You

A minimum of 5 years work experience in the capacity of an Executive Assistant or support function with similar responsibilities and transferable skillsPreferred location is the San Francisco/Bay AreaAbility to travel to large events to coordinate meetings. AWS reInvent, Google Next, Our industry conference Unscripted, etcProficiency with Google apps, Microsoft Suite, Slack, and ZoomExperience working at a start-up or rapidly-growing companyEnthusiastic, self-motivated and with a can-do attitudeAble to manage ambiguity and variety of different working styles across the organizationExcellent communication skillsHighly organized and detail-orientedStrong work ethic and high level of integrityAbility to maintain confidentiality and practice discretion in your everyday workAgile and flexible in response to changing priorities and needs with the ability to pivot quickly

Work Location

This is a Remote role with a strong preference for the candidate to be based in the San Francisco area

What you will have at Harness

Competitive salaryComprehensive healthcare benefitsFlexible Spending Account (FSA)Flexible work scheduleEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Flexible Time Off and Parental LeaveMonthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $109,000 - $133,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency

$109,000—$133,000 USD

Harness In The News

Harness Snags $230 Series D - $3.7B ValuationHarness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From#6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list#17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For#47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For#2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers2021 Career Launching Companies List

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.