About the position
The Worldwide Amazon Stores organization is looking for an Executive Assistant who wants to work in a fast-paced, exciting, and growing organization. We are looking for someone to support two senior leaders in Amazon Selection & Catalog Systems (ASCS) team in Seattle, Washington. ASCS builds the systems that host and run the world's largest e-Commerce products catalog. We power the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find, discover, and buy anything they want. Our massively scaled out distributed systems process hundreds of millions of updates on the billions of products across physical, digital, and services offerings. We ensure that we serve up the freshest and most complete product information to the hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers around the world 24x7x365. Our products (systems and services) also manage the entire item, relationship, and offer life-cycle, provide the data pipelines for all item and offer information across the company, create the platform for the Fulfilment Centers catalog, manage all offers against items, provide the selection gateway to the search and browse experiences on the website, and compute buyability. To do this, we develop the algorithms and build the systems and tools to the ensure safety of the selection and maximize their impact on the Amazon top-line, all the while continuously growing the overall selection. We develop and apply technologies spanning parallel processing, storage, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Image Recognition. We constantly stretch the limits of distributed systems and big data processing to solve some of the hardest technical problems and unprecedented scale challenges. With the continuing growth in the scale and diversity of the Amazon business, these challenges only get bigger, requiring us to constantly innovate as there are no 'textbook solutions.' We are the team inventing these solutions!
Responsibilities
- Manage complex calendar and scheduling to support teams in multiple locations
- Manage domestic and international travel
- Manage expense report coordination and submission
- Organize, execute, and assist with team activities (staff meeting agendas, all-hands meetings, off-sites, and team social events)
- Ensure the timely completion of critical tasks and follow up on pending matters
- Work closely with the leadership team, program managers, recruiting, and other Executive Assistants to provide support to the organization
- Help to develop & maintain new mechanisms within the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of senior level leadership support, or 3+ years of Amazon experience
- High school or equivalent diploma
- Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company
- Experience designing processes to maximize efficiency
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
