Executive Assistant to CEO #3974

Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. We are working to change the trajectory of cancer mortality and bring stakeholders together to adopt innovative, safe, and effective technologies that can transform cancer care.

We are a healthcare company, pioneering new technologies to advance early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.

GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies.

For more information, please visit grail.com.

Join a highly organized and exceptionally agile Executive Administration team driven by our mission: to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. We work behind the scenes making crucial contributions to the mission via those we support.

As an Executive Assistant, you will provide critical support to the Chief Executive Officer making a significant impact on our Executive teams. This role requires highly-developed interpersonal skills, a friendly and helpful demeanor, and a solution-oriented approach. Given the nature of the work, this position demands a high level of discretion, confidentiality, and the ability to manage sensitive external communications with care.

This onsite role requires 4 days a week in Menlo Park, CA, with Tuesdays and Thursdays required, offering the opportunity to be deeply integrated into GRAIL’s dynamic and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Exercise discretion and sound judgment in a diversity of C-suite level matters, especially those involving financial and legal sensitivities, while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality with impeccable written and verbal communication, administrative, and organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities, with experience working with senior executives.
• Multitask efficiently; excelling at synthesizing and coordinating multiple communications in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Actively manage the calendars, meetings, and priorities for multiple Senior Leaders, with a particular focus on the CEO. Manage and reconcile corporate expenses.
• Draft and manage sensitive external communications on behalf of Executive Leadership, ensuring they are handled with the utmost care, discretion and professionalism.
• Remain calm under pressure with exceptional attention to detail.
• Team player - have team-oriented experience and approach; enjoy working cross-functionally in partnership with teams.
• Take initiative: anticipate, address, and resolve potential needs, conflicts, or challenges.
• Ability to project manage special projects and ad-hoc assignments independently with little direction needed.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-growing, and changing environment, navigating ambiguity with confidence.
• Versatility, collaboration, and flexibility are critical characteristics of the role in order to ensure coverage planning across the EA Team.
• Demonstrated commitment to GRAIL’s core values of Embrace Change, Solve Problems Together, Think BIG!, Be Courageous, and Bring an Open Mind.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in executive admin support or a combination of a B.A./B.S. degree with relevant experience supporting C-Suite executives, particularly supporting a CEO. 
• Strong business sense and ability to decipher priorities while making sound judgment calls when needed.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build effective internal and external relations; impeccable attention to detail, project management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new procedures, software, and technologies.
• Commitment to excellence, performing duties at the highest level possible on a consistent basis.
• Positive “can do” attitude with a strong desire to roll up sleeves.
• Experience with Google Suite or other cloud-based office programs.
• Experience maintaining confidentiality and addressing sensitive information with a high level of customer service.
• Start-up experience in a company that has scaled quickly is a plus.

The expected, full-time, annual base pay scale for this position is $127K-$159K. Actual base pay will consider skills, experience, and location.

Based on the role, colleagues may be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan tied to company and individual performance, or an incentive plan. We also offer a long-term incentive plan to align company and colleague success over time.

In addition, GRAIL offers a progressive benefit package, including flexible time-off, a 401k with a company match, and alongside our medical, dental, vision plans, carefully selected mindfulness offerings.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. GRAIL maintains a drug-free workplace.