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Role Description

As the Executive Assistant, you will utilize your exceptional organizational and communication skills to provide strategic support to our sales leadership and other executives as identified. Responsibilities include:

• Scheduling meetings across complex calendars
• Coordinating travel
• Strategic operations
• Contact management
• Meeting minutes and action items
• Various projects as needed

The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player who can manage several tasks and projects independently while partnering with executives, Human Resources, and the admin team to ensure smooth executive operations. The ideal candidate has an innate passion for providing exceptional executive support, is trustworthy, embraces a growth mindset, and excels at being mindful of details in a high performance-oriented, fast-paced, and ever-changing environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of EA experience; 5+ years of experience supporting Sales Executives strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Biotech experience preferred
• Calendar management, meeting organization, and heavy travel coordination experience
• Proficiency with MS Office (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat, DocuSign, Zoom, and Slack
• Excellent at prioritizing and executing multiple projects/tasks with tight deadlines while being solution-oriented
• Proven expertise in written and verbal communication, demonstrating strategic, professional, creative, and succinct communication
• Pro-active self-starter able to work independently, effectively solve problems, and prioritize work, anticipating needs of senior leadership
• Highly collaborative and able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders
• High level of maturity, and ability to exercise good judgement, discretion, and confidentiality in all tasks
• Able to remain organized and focused in a fast-paced, high performance startup environment

Requirements

• Expertly manage and prioritize the Sales Leaders' calendars, focusing on productivity, urgency, and stakeholder needs
• Arrange comprehensive travel plans and coordinate high-profile events and meetings for Sales leadership
• Act as gatekeeper by screening and prioritizing communications and managing access to the Sales Leaders and their direct-reports
• Effectively communicate and partner with various internal and external stakeholders, ensuring smooth collaboration and coordination
• Assist in development and organization of support materials for meetings and conferences (e.g. slide decks, presentations, meeting materials, etc.)
• Prepare and submit expense reports and manage purchase requisitions according to company policies and procedures
• Design and implement office policies and procedures as needed
• Analyze and monitor internal processes and suggest/implement procedural and policy changes to improve operational efficiency
• Partner with Human Resources with various employee experience projects and programs
• Assist with special projects and ad-hoc assignments and programs as requested

Benefits

• Vera Therapeutics Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer
• Committed to fair and equitable compensation practices
• Market competitive total compensation packages
• Anticipated base pay range: $105,000 - $145,000 USD

Company Description

Vera Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases. Our mission is to advance treatments that target the source of disease in order to change the standard of care for patients.