Senior Executive Assistant
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five behaviors—traveler first, think big, operate with excellence, ownership mindset, and succeed together—help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of the leadership team shaping the future of travel and driving impact across our organization. In this role, you will:
- Strategically manage complex calendars across global time zones, ensuring efficient scheduling that reflects business priorities and minimizes conflicts
- Coordinate meetings end-to-end, including securing appropriate rooms, AV/technical setup, and catering if needed. Clearly outline logistics, objectives, and agendas in invites to set expectations for attendees
- Support meeting preparation by proactively communicating with stakeholders to establish clear workback timelines and ensure everyone is aligned
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, including registration for conferences, all meetings, and transport/logistics for your leader while traveling
- Drive time management for your executives by ensuring a focus on strategic business initiatives
- Plan logistics for your leader's team on-sites and provide in-person support and execution during sessions
- Partner with other EAs across the organization to ensure seamless support and consistently strive to showcase your value and help to improve skillsets across the EA team. As this is a senior role you will be expected to present yourself as a leader in all EA forums. This includes leaning in and contributing to our bi-weekly EA sync
- Tackle special projects, support leadership team priorities, and maintain confidentiality
- Arrange team morale and/or global division-wide events
- Represent the EA team by being positive, dependable, trustworthy, and professional at all times
Experience and qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience supporting senior-level executives
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a professional and approachable tone
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Outlook is essential; familiarity with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote is highly valued
- Comfortable navigating collaboration platforms like Slack and Zoom; experience with both is preferred
- High attention to detail with the ability to anticipate needs, adapt quickly, and manage shifting priorities
- Experience working collaboratively across a team of Executive Assistants
- Brings a steady, composed presence in high-pressure situations, demonstrating sound judgement and discretion
- Ability to balance day-to-day execution with a strategic, big-picture perspective
- A responsive, solutions-oriented approach, adept at acting quickly and thoughtfully to deliver results
- Drives operational excellence across AI initiatives by coordinating cross-functional efforts, preparing strategic materials, and leveraging practical AI fluency to streamline workflows, draft communications, and support execution—while staying current on industry trends without requiring deep technical expertise.
- College degree or equivalent professional experience preferred
Please note that this role is only available in Seattle, and in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week and specifically for this role to include high priority meetings. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $82,500.00 to $115,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $132,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediggroup.com/life.
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Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
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