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We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.
In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.
Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.
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We are hiring a San Francisco-based Senior Executive Assistant to support Directors within the Safety and Systems organization. Our ideal candidate will thrive in our innovative, fast-paced, and dynamic organization, expanding their skills and abilities in pace with the company.
You would be a great fit if you are someone who will succeed in the technical side of our business and help to cultivate connectivity across the department, driving efficiency and bringing productivity to the next level.
What you’ll be doing:
Understand the priorities and objectives of your leaders and their teams
Create presentation materials
Plan, coordinate, facilitate, and lead various meetings, functions, and events including quarterly team-building offsites
Act as gatekeeper, time-advocate, and liaison for your executives
Handle multiple requests for your executive’s time, using strong judgment in handling priority of requests, escalating as necessary for resolution
Manage an extremely dynamic and constantly evolving calendar and schedule
Manage/lead team meetings, team calendars, and team Slack channels
Help support cross-functional alignment within the Cruise organization
Be a culture-contributor: oversee department culture initiatives, track, highlight, and celebrate important team cultural/career moments
Act as a team point person: handle team requests, problem-solve, and assist with keeping the team on-track and organized
Help create and maintain communication within the team and broader org
Help drive recruitment and hiring in partnership with your executives
Manage travel for your executives
What you must have:
BA/BS
4+ years of related work experience and general knowledge within Engineering organizations
Excellent calendar management skills, including the coordination of complex meetings and designing scalable operating cadences
Great care and discretion in managing confidential documents
Excellent organization skills and acute attention to details
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Solid understanding of G-Suite
Confident self-starter that can take a task and run with it with limited supervision from executive
Able to anticipate problems and/or needs of your executive and proactively offer solutions and make recommendations
Availability to perform job duties outside of normal business hours, when necessary
Comfortable adapting to a fast pace working environment
Bonus points!
Project Management Skills
The salary range for this position is $106,800 - $157,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Fertility benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
- Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
- Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
- CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email HR@getcruise.com.
We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal
In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.
No Application Deadline