Job Description

Square’s Cash App Team is looking for detail oriented, creative, and reliable business partners to join our Executive Assistant Team, supporting our executives and managing our EAs. Our Executive Assistants are critical team members who hold everything together - you will have the opportunity to participate in wide-ranging, confidential, and strategic tasks to support Cash’s objectives and take our company to the next level. We are looking for candidates with an innate passion for learning, who enjoy taking on new challenges and projects, and who excel at being mindful of details in an energetic, fast-paced, and ever-changing environment. We value diverse backgrounds as well as “traditional” EA experience (if such a thing exists), and are hiring across multiple levels on the team.

EA PEOPLE LEAD RESPONSIBILITIES

People Management Responsibilities

• Lead ~3 Executive Assistants with varying levels of experience.
• Manage administrative responsibilities for directs, including time cards, time-off approval and balance, reporting processes approval, Workday management, team resource maintenance.
• Communicate job and performance expectations through consolidation, synthesis, and delivery of performance feedback during our performance review and promotion cycles.
• Support directs’ effectiveness and successful development of their job responsibilities through dynamic coaching, mentorship, and advocacy, varying across the needs of each direct. 
• Collaborate with other EA Leads and partners on team-wide matters, including annual and incremental budget planning processes, team-wide load balancing, identifying trends and recommending systemic improvements. 
• Active participant in department-wide promotion and compensation calibration, recruiting outlook and hiring processes, and other team building programs.

  Executive Assistant Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to our Cash Product Engineering Lead, maintain sensitive and complex calendars, requiring coordination with both internal and external executives, partners, and EAs.
• Be the executive’s right hand by attending important meetings, actively participate, and provide a knowledgeable resource, while ensuring executive preparation and effectiveness.
• Manage projects simultaneously, identifying gaps and taking ownership of projects; compile and prepare material and agendas for team meetings, such as all-hands presentations and events.
• Develop an understanding of the team and field requests from internal and external contacts, be available and approachable.
• Maintain relationships with cross-functional business partners to help support Cash programs and goals.

Qualifications

You have:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience as an Executive Assistant, or experience in a similar organizational function (Recruiting, HR, Event Planning, etc.)
• Direct, dotted line, or informal experience leading a team of administrative professionals.
• Experience supporting a variety of different executives and teams.
• Experience handling multiple administrative and executive support tasks and projects, and communicating with all types of personalities and team members.
• Appreciation for the challenges of supporting a growing team of diverse personalities and programs.
• Value teamwork at all levels, while remaining proactive, resourceful, and efficient.

Additional Information At Square, our purpose is to empower – within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible. Perks At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes: Healthcare coverage, Retirement Plans, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Meal reimbursements, Wellness perks, Paid parental leave, Flexible time off, Learning and Development resources