Microsoft

Executive Business Administrator

Microsoft • $65K — $108K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in administrative, business support, or customer service roles with a focus on executive-level support.
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent experience preferred.
  • 2+ years of mentoring experience for others in an administrative capacity.
  • 3+ years of experience managing administrative budgets, including events and travel.
  • Strong organizational and strategic communication skills required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic calendar management based on business and executive needs.
  • Drive oversight for discipline development, encouraging a growth mindset.
  • Manage overall event planning, communication, and resource allocation.
  • Create and manage the annual rhythm of business, preparing teams for cadence.
  • Coordinate travel arrangements with Executive Travel, creating detailed itineraries.

Benefits

  • Flexible work opportunities with a hybrid model allowing work from home.
  • Exposure to Microsoft's global sales organization and strategic initiatives.
  • Career growth potential through direct partnership with an executive.
Full Job Description
Overview

As an Executive Business Administrator supporting the global leader of Digital Enterprise Sales, you will serve as a trusted partner at the center of a global organization, managing complex executive operations, strategic calendar and travel planning, communications, and leadership team rhythms. You will anticipate business needs, navigate competing priorities, and help drive seamless execution across a fast-paced, highly visible business. Working closely with leaders and key stakeholders, you will enable the executive to focus on business priorities while helping foster an engaged, high-performing leadership culture.

This opportunity will allow you to:
  • Accelerate your career growth by partnering directly with a Microsoft executive and leadership team.
  • Develop deep business acumen and gain broad exposure to Microsoft's global sales organization, priorities, and strategic initiatives.
  • Hone your executive partnership, stakeholder management, and operational excellence skills in a highly dynamic environment.


This role offers flexible work opportunities, with a hybrid work model that allows you to work from home part of the time while maintaining an in-person presence for key business and leadership activities.

Responsibilities
  • Based on a deep knowledge of business and executive needs, you will provide highly strategic calendar management. You'll also maintain strategic alliances inside and outside the company by proactively driving communication between executives, central teams, and other business partners.
  • You will drive strategic oversight and direction for discipline development by assessing discipline capabilities to encourage a growth mindset environment. You'll also showcase leadership by demonstrating executive presence, encouraging others to raise their own standards, and setting a foundation for success.
  • You will provide strategic oversight into event vision and manage overall events, including promotion, communication, and resource allocation. You'll also own expense management for the executive office, partnering with finance on all aspects of budgets.
  • Working with executive leaders and Chiefs of Staff, you will create, build, and manage the annual rhythm of business (ROB). You'll also prepare the team for the ROB cadence, while helping to manage workloads across multiple Rhythm Of Business(ROBs).
  • You will work with Executive Travel to coordinate travel arrangements for the Executive Office. This will involve creating detailed itineraries, managing all travel logistics and documents, and occasionally accompanying leaders on business trips.


Qualifications

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

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


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.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
MSFT
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