Senior Executive Assistant, Fastly
The estimated salary range for this position is $54.90/hour to $65.88/hour
3-4 days a week in office
Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
The estimated salary range for this position is $54.90/hour to $65.88/hour
3-4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization
- Communicate clearly and professionally with executives, employees, customers, and external partners
- Take initiative by identifying needs and solving problems before they become obstacles
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Thrive managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Be naturally curious and eager to understand the business beyond the calendar
- Adapt quickly as priorities shift while maintaining focus on what matters most
- Demonstrate sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when handling confidential information
- Use modern workplace technologies and AI tools to improve efficiency and streamline workflows
- Collaborate effectively across teams while maintaining a positive, service-oriented mindset
- 5+ years of experience supporting senior executives in a fast-paced technology or high-growth environment
- Experience supporting Vice Presidents or Executive Leadership Team members
- Experience coordinating complex domestic and international travel
- Demonstrated success managing executive meetings, leadership offsites, customer engagements, or company-wide initiatives
- Experience working across multiple time zones and global teams
- Strong proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Coupa, and modern workplace technologies
- Experience using AI-powered productivity tools to improve efficiency and streamline administrative work
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience preferred
What the job involves
- The Senior Executive Assistant is a trusted partner to one or more members of Fastly's Executive Leadership Team. This role is ideal for an experienced Executive Assistant who has built a strong foundation supporting senior leaders and is ready to take the next step in their career
- While providing exceptional executive support, this role offers the opportunity to grow beyond traditional administrative responsibilities by developing a deep understanding of the business, anticipating executive needs, improving processes, and contributing to the success of the broader organization
- Success in this role requires exceptional organizational skills, sound judgment, strong communication, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, global environment. The ideal candidate is naturally curious, takes initiative without waiting to be asked, and enjoys becoming deeply integrated into the business they support. They notice what needs to be done, anticipate challenges before they arise, and proactively help move priorities forward
- At Fastly, we hire administrative professionals who are reliable, highly organized, and proactive problem solvers. They are self-starters driven by curiosity, always looking for ways to improve how work gets done. Our team excels at managing multiple priorities, building trusted relationships, and helping our leaders operate at their best
- Executive Partnership:
- Manage complex executive calendars while thoughtfully aligning priorities with business objectives
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, adapting quickly as priorities evolve
- Prepare agendas, presentations, briefing materials, and executive communications
- Manage expense reporting accurately and efficiently
- Capture meeting notes, track action items, and help drive follow-through across stakeholders
- Anticipate executive needs by thinking ahead and proactively identifying scheduling conflicts, risks, or opportunities
- Operational Excellence:
- Build a strong understanding of the executive's organization, priorities, and operating rhythms
- Coordinate communication across leadership teams and cross-functional partners
- Support planning and execution of leadership meetings, executive offsites, customer engagements, and company events
- Partner across multiple teams to ensure initiatives continue moving forward
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, communication, and administrative processes
- Business Partnership:
- Develop trusted relationships with business leaders and key stakeholders
- Exercise sound judgment when balancing competing priorities and changing business needs
- Take ownership of projects and follow-through without waiting to be directed
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve executive effectiveness and team operations
- Handle highly confidential information with professionalism, integrity, and discretion
- Team & Administrative Community
- Partner closely with Executive Assistants and Administrative Business Partners across Fastly to ensure seamless coordination
- Share ideas and best practices that strengthen the broader administrative community
- Support executive visits, leadership events, and company initiatives as needed
- Contribute to a collaborative, team-first culture within the Executive Business Partner organization
Application process
- Anticipated Posting Close Date: Aug 31, 2026
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users and improves the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands. Ultimately, it enables clients to focus on growing their businesses rather than improving their customer experience.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by its naming as a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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