Senior Executive Assistant
Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Executive Assistant (EA) to the Global Head of Service (GHoS) is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership of one of the world’s fastest growing media, content and tech companies. The EA will instrumental in enhancing GHoS’s effectiveness and its senior team. The EA is responsible for building strong trust and confidence within the Service organization, with the CEO’s Directs, and the Audible EA community. They are relied upon for timely support and, thus, possesses a deep understanding of the organization’s vision, goals, priorities and who’s who, and the necessary context to guide decisions around prioritization of the GHoS’s time.
The EA will also act as a consultant and trusted partner to the GHoS, supporting the leader with tracking strategic plans, helping drive complex decisions, expediting execution of tactical day to day tasks, and helping with preparation of presentations and documents.
ABOUT YOU
You are innovative, curious, self-starting, and extremely focused. You are extremely detail-oriented and organized, have the confidence to proactively own tasks, and possess the foresight, nimbleness, and ear to the ground to understand intra-day issues that may be disruptive to GHoS’s schedule. You operate with considerable autonomy and superior judgement once objectives are agreed upon. You have the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality standards and assert high levels of integrity and discretion. You have a proven ability to influence others and drive accountability and outcomes.
You are a creative problem-solver, able to deal with ambiguity, and have superior time management skills. You are an agile individual, motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to accommodate working irregular hours, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations that require quick turnaround. You are a trusted partner, a truth teller, and representative of leadership, assisting GHoS foster a cohesive team culture. You’re seen as approachable, collaborative, and non-political by your stakeholders and peers. You are highly resourceful in building relationships.
As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will...
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Executive Assistant (EA) to the Global Head of Service (GHoS) is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership of one of the world’s fastest growing media, content and tech companies. The EA will instrumental in enhancing GHoS’s effectiveness and its senior team. The EA is responsible for building strong trust and confidence within the Service organization, with the CEO’s Directs, and the Audible EA community. They are relied upon for timely support and, thus, possesses a deep understanding of the organization’s vision, goals, priorities and who’s who, and the necessary context to guide decisions around prioritization of the GHoS’s time.
The EA will also act as a consultant and trusted partner to the GHoS, supporting the leader with tracking strategic plans, helping drive complex decisions, expediting execution of tactical day to day tasks, and helping with preparation of presentations and documents.
ABOUT YOU
You are innovative, curious, self-starting, and extremely focused. You are extremely detail-oriented and organized, have the confidence to proactively own tasks, and possess the foresight, nimbleness, and ear to the ground to understand intra-day issues that may be disruptive to GHoS’s schedule. You operate with considerable autonomy and superior judgement once objectives are agreed upon. You have the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality standards and assert high levels of integrity and discretion. You have a proven ability to influence others and drive accountability and outcomes.
You are a creative problem-solver, able to deal with ambiguity, and have superior time management skills. You are an agile individual, motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to accommodate working irregular hours, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations that require quick turnaround. You are a trusted partner, a truth teller, and representative of leadership, assisting GHoS foster a cohesive team culture. You’re seen as approachable, collaborative, and non-political by your stakeholders and peers. You are highly resourceful in building relationships.
As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will...
- Proactively manage complex calendar schedules of multiple leaders (multiple locations in multiple time zones)
- Assure key information and appropriate materials gets to the GHoS in an optimal format at the right time to prep for internal and external meetings and presentations
- Organize and orchestrate GHoS meetings with agendas, assuring the “right people are in the room”
- Organize large-scale GHoS org meetings (staff meetings, off-sites, all-hands, business reviews)
- Act as a consultant and key project coordinator to the GHoS to support their highest priority workstreams
- Take minutes at meetings for GHoS, tracks and drive completion of key deliverables with follow ups
- Maintain an awareness and understanding of the priorities, work, and progress within each functional team under the GHoS to draw attention to emerging opportunities
- Manage global travel arrangements, lodging, meals, etc. for multiple leaders, adhering to company policies
- Prepare and submit expense reports as needed in a timely fashion via Workday for multiple leaders
- Support team activities (e.g., outings, holiday parties), as needed, to help advance team culture
- Manage employee recognition and coordinate informal employee meetings for GHoS
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
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Senior Executive Assistant
Audible, Inc.
Newark, NJ
Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Executive Assistant (EA) to the Global Head of Service (GHoS) is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership of one of the world’s fastest growing media, content and tech companies. The EA will instrumental in enhancing GHoS’s effectiveness and its senior team. The EA is responsible for building strong trust and confidence within the Service organization, with the CEO’s Directs, and the Audible EA community. They are relied upon for timely support and, thus, possesses a deep understanding of the organization’s vision, goals, priorities and who’s who, and the necessary context to guide decisions around prioritization of the GHoS’s time.
The EA will also act as a consultant and trusted partner to the GHoS, supporting the leader with tracking strategic plans, helping drive complex decisions, expediting execution of tactical day to day tasks, and helping with preparation of presentations and documents.
ABOUT YOU
You are innovative, curious, self-starting, and extremely focused. You are extremely detail-oriented and organized, have the confidence to proactively own tasks, and possess the foresight, nimbleness, and ear to the ground to understand intra-day issues that may be disruptive to GHoS’s schedule. You operate with considerable autonomy and superior judgement once objectives are agreed upon. You have the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality standards and assert high levels of integrity and discretion. You have a proven ability to influence others and drive accountability and outcomes.
You are a creative problem-solver, able to deal with ambiguity, and have superior time management skills. You are an agile individual, motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to accommodate working irregular hours, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations that require quick turnaround. You are a trusted partner, a truth teller, and representative of leadership, assisting GHoS foster a cohesive team culture. You’re seen as approachable, collaborative, and non-political by your stakeholders and peers. You are highly resourceful in building relationships.
As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will...
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Executive Assistant (EA) to the Global Head of Service (GHoS) is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership of one of the world’s fastest growing media, content and tech companies. The EA will instrumental in enhancing GHoS’s effectiveness and its senior team. The EA is responsible for building strong trust and confidence within the Service organization, with the CEO’s Directs, and the Audible EA community. They are relied upon for timely support and, thus, possesses a deep understanding of the organization’s vision, goals, priorities and who’s who, and the necessary context to guide decisions around prioritization of the GHoS’s time.
The EA will also act as a consultant and trusted partner to the GHoS, supporting the leader with tracking strategic plans, helping drive complex decisions, expediting execution of tactical day to day tasks, and helping with preparation of presentations and documents.
ABOUT YOU
You are innovative, curious, self-starting, and extremely focused. You are extremely detail-oriented and organized, have the confidence to proactively own tasks, and possess the foresight, nimbleness, and ear to the ground to understand intra-day issues that may be disruptive to GHoS’s schedule. You operate with considerable autonomy and superior judgement once objectives are agreed upon. You have the ability to adhere to strict confidentiality standards and assert high levels of integrity and discretion. You have a proven ability to influence others and drive accountability and outcomes.
You are a creative problem-solver, able to deal with ambiguity, and have superior time management skills. You are an agile individual, motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, with the ability to accommodate working irregular hours, reacting with appropriate urgency to situations that require quick turnaround. You are a trusted partner, a truth teller, and representative of leadership, assisting GHoS foster a cohesive team culture. You’re seen as approachable, collaborative, and non-political by your stakeholders and peers. You are highly resourceful in building relationships.
As a Senior Executive Assistant, you will...
- Proactively manage complex calendar schedules of multiple leaders (multiple locations in multiple time zones)
- Assure key information and appropriate materials gets to the GHoS in an optimal format at the right time to prep for internal and external meetings and presentations
- Organize and orchestrate GHoS meetings with agendas, assuring the “right people are in the room”
- Organize large-scale GHoS org meetings (staff meetings, off-sites, all-hands, business reviews)
- Act as a consultant and key project coordinator to the GHoS to support their highest priority workstreams
- Take minutes at meetings for GHoS, tracks and drive completion of key deliverables with follow ups
- Maintain an awareness and understanding of the priorities, work, and progress within each functional team under the GHoS to draw attention to emerging opportunities
- Manage global travel arrangements, lodging, meals, etc. for multiple leaders, adhering to company policies
- Prepare and submit expense reports as needed in a timely fashion via Workday for multiple leaders
- Support team activities (e.g., outings, holiday parties), as needed, to help advance team culture
- Manage employee recognition and coordinate informal employee meetings for GHoS
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
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Director, Strategy & Corporate Development
Audible, Inc.
Newark, NJ
Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Director, Strategy & Corporate Development will be a core member of this highly visible team that provides strategic and financial advice to Audible’s CEO and our executive leadership.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Audible’s Strategy & Corporate Development Team identifies, designs, and executes new organic growth strategies drawing on media and technology trends and the competitive landscape. We then source, negotiate, structure, and close strategic partnerships, direct investments, joint ventures, and acquisitions to accelerate these plans. We work closely with Amazon’s investment funds and the company’s other media & entertainment and digital business units (including Prime Video, Music, Games, Wondery, Twitch, Studios/MGM, and Alexa/Amazon.com) to think holistically on behalf of our customers.
ABOUT YOU
You have strong experience and capabilities in providing strategic and financial advice as well as executive presence. You are passionate about using data to help drive informed decisions and able to express your work in both written and spreadsheet form. You're an analytical and creative thinker, with the ability to ask the right questions and develop a point of view that will influence decisions and drive Audible’s continued success. You have strong knowledge of the media & entertainment and consumer technology industries, corporate strategy, and the inseparable bond between organic and inorganic growth. You are a transformer who is passionate about figuring out what the future looks like, with a relentless focus on creating and improving customer value. You have a demonstrated track record of analyzing, leading due diligence, structuring, and closing M&A transactions, investments, and complex commercial partnerships.
You are a left and right brain thinker who has the ability to balance creativity and people skills with strong business judgment and analytical skills. You are equally able to “think big” as well as roll up your sleeves on day-to-day operational details. You are a quick learner who thrives in an entrepreneurial, high velocity environment and wants to work for a company with a distinct cultural purpose and mission. You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity with the ability to quickly change focus and balance the needs of the moment with longer-term goals. You exhibit strong integrity, good judgement, hard work and the ability to meet commitments and deadlines. You are an exceptional written and verbal communicator with a knack for making complex topics understandable and inspire people at all levels of the organization. You take the initiative, anticipate the need, and act upon opportunities or issues without explicit instruction.
As a Director of Strategy & Corporate Development, you will...
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Director, Strategy & Corporate Development will be a core member of this highly visible team that provides strategic and financial advice to Audible’s CEO and our executive leadership.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Audible’s Strategy & Corporate Development Team identifies, designs, and executes new organic growth strategies drawing on media and technology trends and the competitive landscape. We then source, negotiate, structure, and close strategic partnerships, direct investments, joint ventures, and acquisitions to accelerate these plans. We work closely with Amazon’s investment funds and the company’s other media & entertainment and digital business units (including Prime Video, Music, Games, Wondery, Twitch, Studios/MGM, and Alexa/Amazon.com) to think holistically on behalf of our customers.
ABOUT YOU
You have strong experience and capabilities in providing strategic and financial advice as well as executive presence. You are passionate about using data to help drive informed decisions and able to express your work in both written and spreadsheet form. You're an analytical and creative thinker, with the ability to ask the right questions and develop a point of view that will influence decisions and drive Audible’s continued success. You have strong knowledge of the media & entertainment and consumer technology industries, corporate strategy, and the inseparable bond between organic and inorganic growth. You are a transformer who is passionate about figuring out what the future looks like, with a relentless focus on creating and improving customer value. You have a demonstrated track record of analyzing, leading due diligence, structuring, and closing M&A transactions, investments, and complex commercial partnerships.
You are a left and right brain thinker who has the ability to balance creativity and people skills with strong business judgment and analytical skills. You are equally able to “think big” as well as roll up your sleeves on day-to-day operational details. You are a quick learner who thrives in an entrepreneurial, high velocity environment and wants to work for a company with a distinct cultural purpose and mission. You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity with the ability to quickly change focus and balance the needs of the moment with longer-term goals. You exhibit strong integrity, good judgement, hard work and the ability to meet commitments and deadlines. You are an exceptional written and verbal communicator with a knack for making complex topics understandable and inspire people at all levels of the organization. You take the initiative, anticipate the need, and act upon opportunities or issues without explicit instruction.
As a Director of Strategy & Corporate Development, you will...
- Build cohesive strategic plans to accomplish business objectives, identify specific areas of opportunity through quantitative and qualitative analysis, and formulate goals and milestones that will enable us to achieve those objectives
- Draft recommendations using a combination of Excel, PowerPoint and the PR/FAQ format based on input from content, product, marketing, finance, analytics, and technology leadership teams
- Lead inorganic growth efforts by partnering with finance, legal, Amazon Corp Dev, and Audible executives
- Be a strategic advisor for senior leadership across the organization on build/buy/partner opportunities
- Drive cross-functional initiatives, leading by influence and without direct authority
- Actively provide an “outside-in” perspective and recommend strategic priorities based on competitive and consumer intelligence
- Support the executive team designing our annual operating plan (OP1)
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
Full-time