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One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.
What you'll do: In this role, you will demonstrate your high energy, teamwork skills, and ability to prioritize and organize as you provide administrative support, coordinate activities between departments, handle requests, coordinate domestic and international travel, process expense reports, lead heavy calendars, and process invoices. You have superb relationship and customer service skills, work with the highest levels of our executive staff and external partners, and respond quickly to changes in direction. Excellent interpersonal skills, judgment, discretion, and a proven track record of keeping executives on schedule are critical in this position. We’re proud of our culture and find that our Executive and Administrative Assistants play a substantial role in serving as ambassadors to and for our company.
The day-to-day: - Ability to quickly prioritize and complete tasks
- Follow through on commitments and anticipate needs
- Have extensive experience in scheduling international travel, meetings, and events
- Exhibit attention to detail
- Prioritize multiple tasks confidently
- Can handle ambiguity by openly communicating with teammates and the people you support, asking appropriate questions, to resolve the best way forward
- Possess superb customer service and excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexible and can adapt quickly while maintaining motivation, composure, and integrity
- Handle critical and confidential information with discretion
- Enjoy and handle challenges with grit
- Interest in learning about the product team and contributing to our team culture
- Organize all-hands meetings, team-building activities, and support smaller team gatherings to foster a vibrant, inclusive team culture.
- 5+ years in an Executive Assistant role
- Excellent oral/written communication skills
- Ability to successfully lead workload while addressing numerous interruptions and unforeseen events
- History of working gracefully under pressure with little to no supervision
- Excellent organization skills and initiative with the ability to effectively plan and prioritize, including the ability to concurrently run various fast paced tasks from multiple sources, maintaining composure and attention to detail
- Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills with the talent to interface effectively and courteously with personnel and external contacts from various cultures and at all levels
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment independently and with a team across multiple locations and departments
- Highly motivated with the skills to learn quickly and independently
- Experience working with sensitive information that requires a high level of discretion
- Outstanding use of Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to work a hybrid work model, including a 3/2 schedule (3 days in-office and 2 days remote) based in the Carlsbad office.
- Experience working and coordinating with Executive teams.
- Ability to adapt quickly to change.
- Ability to work with diverse teams.
Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.
