Executive Assistant

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Your Impact
We’re seeking an Executive Assistant for Axon’s R&D business unit. This role will be responsible for prioritizing schedules and projects to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. This role will help improve productivity for Axon's TASER leadership teams to ensure their time is spent efficiently and deliberately. This role will also provide calendar, meeting, travel, and expense assistance to maximize efficient use of resources; and help with other detailed, complex, and confidential duties as needed.

Your Day to Day

• This is a critical and highly visible role that is responsible for leading administrative duties and enhancing the business executives’ effectiveness by providing information management support and representing the executive to internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide support to an Axon R&D senior leadership, manage and organize calendars, arrange travel, and coordinate with both internal and external stakeholders to align meetings and schedules.
• Effectively communicate with sales executives and team members across the organization.
• Handle business, company, and personnel details of highly confidential and sensitive nature, and engage with high level contacts inside and outside the company.
• Manage and plan extensive travel planning
• Provide heavy calendar management and serve as the primary gatekeeper for the executive and other team members liaising with internal and external stakeholders – must be comfortable working in multiple time zones.
• Highlight calendar conflicts and execute recommended resolutions.
• Ensure executives are prepared for all meetings – securing all materials in advance.
• Anticipate meeting needs including reviewing & securing options for space, technology needs, food and beverage service, providing guest access to the building, hosting arrivals.
• Organize communications and redirect consistent with executives’ regular practice.
• Prepare documents, proofreading for accuracy and making recommended changes after others review.
• Partner and collaborate with the Chief of Staff, R&D and other R&D EA teammates on strategic initiatives.
• Review and manage Taser leadership team expenses to ensure they are compliant.

Attributes

• Dealing with Ambiguity – effectively cope with change by shifting gears comfortably, acting without having the total picture, and handling risk and uncertainty comfortably
• Planning and organizing – ability to establish course of action to accomplish goals and evaluate results, develop schedules and task/people assignments, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish goals, and use resources effectively and efficiently
• Interpersonal Savvy – relate well to all kinds of people inside and outside of the organization with diplomacy and tact.
• Quick Learner – ability to learn quickly when faced with new problems and challenges
• Self-Starter – able to start and complete projects independently
• Time Management – use time effectively and efficiently and with a sense of urgency
• Written/Oral communications – superior ability to speak and write clearly and concisely
• Stakeholder focus - Dedicated to exceeding manager’s expectations, ensuring excellence in delivery are achieved through the right solution

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in an executive assistant support role
• Minimum of 2 years of experience supporting Sr Director or higher of a large organization
• Demonstrated experience planning large, complex events (both internal and external)
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including a high customer service aptitude
• Must be able to plan and organize tasks and appointments with competing levels of urgency and importance
• Advanced Microsoft Outlook user and proficient in other MS Office applications
• Must have a high sense of urgency and follow-up
• Should be able to work with internal and external stakeholders to include the board of directors, executive-level customers, politicians, and senior members throughout multiple organizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting executives in Engineering or related STEM professions
• Experience collaborating and partnering with a Chief of Staff
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Equivalent experience in lieu of formal education may be considered
• Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team setting
• Concern for quality and deadlines

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Robust parental leave policy
• An award-winning office/working environment
• Ride along with police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired
• And more..

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 60,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 100,000 in the highest geographic market. The On Target Earnings range for this role is between USD 70,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 120,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits (http://www.axon.com/careers/benefits).