Executive Assistant - Dallas

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 U.S Sales Leadership. 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 SVP, Global Sales.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable at the center of the day-to-day activities of a high-velocity global Sales team, 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 conflicts

• Ensure the Leaders are briefed and prepared for key meetings and planned activities

• Arrange domestic and international travel

• Prepare expense reports in a timely fashion

• Actively attend and participate in both virtual and in-person meetings when appropriate, with follow up on action items

• Help organize and execute internal team events

• Support in monitoring and posting on social media

• Coordinate with CRO EA to collaborate on key initiatives including QBR's, SKO/CKO, key marketing events, etc

• Perform other admin-related tasks and projects as assigned

About You

• A minimum of 5 years work experience in the capacity of an Executive Assistant or support function with similar responsibilities and transferable skills

• Preferred location is Dallas, TX

• Ability to come into office when Execs are present and/or events occurring

• Proficiency with Google apps, Microsoft Suite, Slack, Zoom, Navan, etc

• Experience working at a start-up or rapidly-growing company

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and with a can-do attitude

• Able to manage variety of different working styles across the organization

• Excellent communication skills

• Highly organized and detail-oriented

• Strong work ethic and high level of integrity

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and practice discretion in your everyday work

• Agile and flexible in response to changing priorities and needs with the ability to pivot quickly

Work Location

This role can be Remote, but with a strong preference to be based in the Dallas, TX area

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Flexible work schedule

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $101,000 - $124,000 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

$101,000-$124,000 USD

Harness in the news:

• Harness Snags $230 Series D - $3.7B Valuation

• Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022

• Harness 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 workers

• 2021 Career Launching Companies List

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