Senior Executive Assistant

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Senior Executive Assistant

Introduction to the Team

Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including Employee Communications, Finance, Legal, People Team, Inclusion and Diversity, and Global Social Impact and Sustainability

Expedia has an incredible opportunity with our Talent & Learning team for a Senior Executive Assistant. This role will play a pivotal part in ensuring the smooth daily operations of the team, managing complex schedules, coordinating meetings, and handling a wide array of executive and administrative tasks. As a trusted partner to the leadership team, you will support initiatives that drive talent development, learning strategies, and career growth programs.

Your ability to anticipate needs, maintain confidentiality, and manage multiple priorities will contribute to the team’s success in shaping the future of talent and learning across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Provide comprehensive support services to SVP and VPs, ensuring outstanding communication, responsiveness, and execution

• Provide sophisticated Outlook inbox, task, and calendar management. Prioritize inquiries and requests, troubleshoot conflicts with little guidance, make judgements and take actions to ensure smooth day-to-day engagements and effective communications with others

• Work closely with each executive to keep them well informed of upcoming commitments and responsibilities. Anticipate needs in advance of meetings, conferences, etc. and follow up appropriately

• Prepare and edit documents as needed, including correspondence, memos, notes, presentations, reports, forms, spreadsheets, slide decks, etc.

• Ensure well organized and up-to-date travel logistics, expense reports, contact lists, vendor and invoice management, files/records, and other administrative needs

• Assist in other related duties as needed

Experience and qualifications:

• 8+ years executive support experience, including supporting senior executives

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to speak and write with professionalism and tact in a wide range of circumstances

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office

• Judgement to make appropriate, informed decisions regarding priorities, time, and communication. Able to maintain a high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information

• High degree of professionalism in dealing with diverse groups of people, including Board members, senior executives, staff and community leaders

• Demonstrated sensitivity to diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Exceptional organizational skills, follow-through, and attention to detail

• High initiative, productivity, and agility. Ability to complete a high volume of tasks and projects with limited guidance. Ability to switch gears and react with appropriate speed to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround

• Technical proficiency to rapidly learn software and troubleshoot/solve technical problems

Please note that this role is only available in the following location:
Seattle, in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid…