To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryCorporate FunctionsJob DetailsAbout SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and were looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforces core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.Department Description: Salesforce Executive Assistants (EAs) are experienced professionals who support our top executives globally. As strategic partners, they maximize the productivity of our leaders and their teams ensuring they stay focused on company goals while exemplifying Salesforce’s values and high-performance culture. Salesforce EAs apply their skills and tailor their approach to the executive’s job functions, personality, and communication style. Salesforce’s inclusive, supportive cultured is eager to welcome another strong contributor to our expanding team to support our C suite executive. Your Impact: As a Salesforce Principal EA, you will partner closely with a C suite executive, acting as an extension of their leadership to support and enhance their brand, work, and personal commitments. You will work closely with the office of the CEO, Board and other Sr. Executives. You are a creative problem solver who thrives in a matrixed, global, results-oriented, and values-driven environment. You exercise excellent judgment and maintain confidentiality. Your strong written and verbal communication and administrative and organizational skills enable you to proactively support the executive, helping maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities. You excel under pressure in a highly visible role while handling various activities in a fast-paced environment. Core Responsibilities:<ul><li>Complete a broad variety of administrative tasks, including managing an active calendar, completing expense reports, composing correspondence, arranging travel plans, and coordinating office events. Be willing and capable of leveraging technology to streamline tasks and enhance efficiency and productivity.</li><li>Implement a functional personal operating structure that incorporates key timelines and business goals, ensuring efficient task prioritization and management.</li><li>Proactively manage and coordinate the Executives schedule and priorities to ensure the efficient use of their time and energy.</li><li>Coordinate various meetings and support the Executives participation in industry events, conferences, and speaking engagements.</li><li>Customize calendar and meeting support based on a strategic understanding of the Executive’s preferences and priorities.</li><li>Implement meeting best practices, assist with preparing materials and setting agendas, and confidently drive the narrative and tone for Executive and administrative meetings.</li><li>Collaborate effectively with employees from other teams within Salesforce and senior executives inside and outside the company.</li><li>Plan travel schedules and bookings for a streamlined experience, ensuring a balance between travel objectives, executive preferences, and cost optimization. Book travel within Salesforce’s policy, considering travel visas, costs, and proper documentation.</li><li>Flexibility to assist with personal tasks and commitments.</li><li>Coordinate and monitor internal projects, ensuring timely progress and resolving issues promptly. Manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced leadership environment, and consistently meet required timeframes.</li><li>Assist in coordinating the agenda of management team meetings, off-sites, and staff meetings.</li><li>Research, prioritize, and follow up on issues and concerns as requested by the Executive, keeping the Leadership Team advised when appropriate.</li><li>Act as a “barometer” to sense and communicate issues within the environment to the Executive.</li><li>Complete critical tasks with a hands-on approach, including drafting materials.</li><li>Establish and maintain internal networks, effectively collaborating and navigating complex, matrixed organizations. Maintain professional and effective relationships with other EAs across the company to ensure smooth communication and coordination.</li><li>Champion a high level of trust in confidentiality of information and being able to earn the trust of the executive and their direct leaders.</li><li>Lead initiatives for the Admin Team, including but not limited to projects, processes, and learning opportunities with org-wide impact. Demonstrate consistent leadership, act as a Trail Guide for new hires, and provide mentorship to other Admins.</li><li>Perform other administrative and project duties as needed.</li></ul>Minimum Requirements:<ul><li>10+ years of applicable administrative experience, ideally from a global software business.</li><li>Proven experience supporting high-level executives in a global, matrixed organization.</li><li>Excellent teamwork skills with a collaborative approach to suggesting and implementing improvements.</li><li>Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to create a personal network throughout the global company.</li><li>Clear and effective communication skills with stakeholders in a highly responsive, professional manner. Ensure communications are clear, thorough, specific, and followed through.</li><li>Reduce “noise” for the Executive by distilling information into the most important “signals” of things to know, questions to answer, decisions to make, etc.</li><li>Communicate confidently and diplomatically while identifying blind spots and seeking additional context when necessary.</li><li>Demonstrate sound judgment and decision-making on the Executives behalf when appropriate, including knowing when to defer answering on their behalf.</li><li>Predict and forecast the Executives preferences, using best judgment in all aspects of executive support.</li><li>Handle confidential material with the utmost discretion, maintaining confidentiality and trust.</li><li>Intermediate project coordination experience. Ability to drive projects and initiatives forward in an ambiguous environment with varying timeframes, identifying and addressing team, business, and cultural needs when appropriate.</li><li>Experience partnering with senior management in a fast-paced, innovative environment.</li><li>Experience working with/in large administrative teams.</li><li>Expert knowledge of Google Suite (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, GMeet). Experience with Slack, Salesforce, Tableau, Concur, and Coupa is a differentiator.</li></ul>Additional Desired Skills/Traits:<ul><li>Customer-centric orientation, a bias towards action, and high attention to detail.</li><li>Professional demeanor and ability to retain strict confidences as necessary.</li><li>Experience working in close collaboration with an executive’s Chief of Staff (or equivalent).</li><li>Ability and desire to build new competencies and accept new challenges.</li><li>Natural curiosity to understand the global DNA of the company and its teams.</li><li>Passion for technology and innovation, staying proficient with tools and new ways of working, and actively encouraging and educating others to embrace and adopt these changes.</li></ul>Unleash Your PotentialWhen you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this <a href="https://careers.mail.salesforce.com/accommodations-request-form" target="_blank">Accommodations Request Form</a>.Posting StatementSalesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal">Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal.</a> Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3>For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $137,100 to $188,600.<h3></h3><h3></h3>