Executive Business Administrator

Overview Are you the type of person who thrives in situations where you can help make others successful? Are you looking for a role that provides continuous opportunities to learn, grow, and drive impact at scale? If you are passionate about fast-paced teamwork, apply to join our team today.

We are excited to find an outstanding Executive Business Administrator to join us in our mission! Our team is constantly evolving and innovating to meet the changing demands of our customers. We are looking for an outstanding candidate who enjoys collaborating toward shared goals and taking the initiative to solve, plan, and execute to move the team forward.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Calendar Management and Meeting Logistics Provides highly strategic calendar management (e.g., high profile, high risk, large-scale impact) based on deep knowledge of business and executive needs, while upholding the highest degree of integrity and maintaining confidentiality.
• Uses discretion to make independent decisions to prioritizer meetings and urgent escalations.
• Uses executive maturity and judgement to lead/own multiple decision making processes, in close partnership with stakeholders and peers.
• Proactively adapts to shifting priorities while representing senior leader.
• Travel Management- Works with Executive Travel to coordinate travel arrangements.
• People Management Delivers success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
• Provides leadership and actively seeks out and participates in the Business Support community.

Mentors Business

Support professionals. Onboards and trains new Business Support staff. Contributes to their organization's culture as a leader.

Engages in career development and trainings. Identifies, aligns, and promotes growth opportunities for self and team. Shares best practices and insights.

Driving the recruiting process for Business Support roles. Supports team building, networking opportunities, and works to uphold morale.

Leadership & Communication

Leads by example and serves as a role model to Business Support colleagues by maintaining a positive attitude, demonstrating executive presence, influencing others, and encouraging self-reflection during challenging situations. Navigates with executive maturity and calmness in challenging situations. Uses executive maturity to escalate issues, proactively ensuring teams' effectiveness and consistency.

Engages with the Business Support community, keeping a pulse to enable growth across the discipline. Embodies our culture and values. Strengthens their network across organizations to enable their team and leader's work.

Proactively drives communication and liaises between executives, central teams, and other business partners to share information and best practices that drive efficiency. Uses executive maturity and independent judgment, discretion, business insights, and perspectives to direct and prepare staff to distribute information to their teams and/or supported leaders.

Communicates with executive maturity to external partners/audiences and third parties. Represents and acts as extension of manager's/team's brand and Microsoft's core values.

People Management

Delivers success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.

Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others. Provides leadership and actively seeks out and participates in the Business Support community.

Mentors Business

Support professionals. Onboards and trains new Business Support staff. Contributes to their organization's culture as a leader.

Engages in career development and trainings. Identifies, aligns, and promotes growth opportunities for self and team. Shares best practices and insights.

Driving the recruiting process for Business Support roles. Supports team building, networking opportunities, and works to uphold morale.

Embody our culture and values .

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper level management.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training).
• 4+ years experience serving as mentor or direct/indirect (e.g., team leader) supervisor to others.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology) OR equivalent experience.

Business Support ATR-D - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $31.49 - $51.97 per hour. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $42.93 - $59.33 per hour.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.