Senior Executive Assistant, MongoDB
Chief Legal Officer
$68-133k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Modern data platform
Job no longer available
Modern data platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$68-133k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience supporting senior legal executives, including experience in a law firm or in-house legal department supporting a General Counsel, Managing Partner or equivalent senior legal leader
- Demonstrated experience handling legal and governance documentation - including bank documents, corporate resolutions, compliance agreements, board materials, and signature packages - with precision and discretion
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience preferred
- Proficiency with Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Docs), Microsoft Office Suite, and video conferencing tools (e.g. Zoom). Familiarity of and use of AI tools is a plus
- Proven success managing complex calendars across time zones, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to anticipate scheduling needs
- Demonstrated ability to plan and manage high-volume domestic and international travel
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with clarity and professionalism at all levels
- Strong judgment, discretion and integrity, including the ability to handle confidential information with care
- Highly adaptable and calm under pressure, able to make decisions, reprioritize quickly, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Proactive, collaborative, and feedback-oriented. Is able to take initiative, think creatively, and work independently when needed
- Willingness to work flexible hours to support global stakeholders and executive needs
What the job involves
- MongoDB is seeking a Senior Executive Assistant to support our Chief Legal Officer (CLO) at the highest level, in the Bay Area
- This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who can go beyond traditional executive support and thrives at the center of a fast-moving organization
- The right candidate will not only run a complex executive calendar and travel cadence with excellence, but also manage the intake, routing, and execution of sensitive legal documents - including but not limited to internal governance, banking and compliance materials requiring CLO sign off
- You will help to prepare materials for key meetings and track priorities and decisions to completion
- This role is ideal for a highly organized, detail-oriented operator with strong judgment, executive presence, and direct experience in a law firm or in-house legal environment
- You will work closely with the CLO and senior legal leaders to keep priorities moving, remove friction, and ensure support is provided with precision, professionalism, and the highest standard of discretion
- To succeed in this role you will need to operate thoughtfully and diplomatically and with a strong sense of ownership
- You should feel comfortable interacting with senior executives, outside counsel, in-house counsel and board-level stakeholders, and know how and when to manage up, across and around in the organization
- You can communicate with clarity and professionalism at every level
- The right candidate enjoys building relationships, working as part of a collaborative team and bringing judgment, and follow-through to a demanding environment
- Provide seamless day-to-day support to the CLO, including proactive calendar management, time prioritization, and coordination across time zones
- Anticipate scheduling conflicts, think ahead and make adjustments early to protect time and avoid last-minute disruptions
- Coordinate complex domestic and international travel in line with company policy, including itineraries, logistics, on the ground support, and bi-monthly expense reconciliation
- Manage the intake, routing, tracking and secure filing of legal documents requiring CLO review and signature - including internal governance documents, banking agreements, compliance certifications, and regulatory materials - ensuring proper version control and timely execution
- Liaise with the internal legal team and outside counsel to coordinate document approval workflows and ensure no deadline falls through the cracks
- Partner closely with the CLO and senior legal leaders to keep priorities moving and ensure strong follow-through
- Track key deliverables, decisions and action items to closure with integrity and accountability, escalating blockers when needed and following through without reminders
- Liaise with stakeholders to create, review and coordinate correspondence, spreadsheets, slide decks, meeting agendas and briefing materials
- Lead the planning and execution of events and offsites, from requirements gathering, venue coordination,budgets, contracts, payments and providing on-site support
- Build trusted relationships across functions and levels, communicating with professionalism, discretion and sound judgment in support of the CLO
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend process improvements that increase effectiveness for both the CLO and the broader legal team
- Take ownership of special projects as needed, showing initiative and strong judgment in ambiguous or fast-changing scenarios
- Manage day to day workload while staying calm under pressure, exercising judgment, and seeing beyond the day-to-day to anticipate changing needs
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organizations modernize their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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