Sr. Executive Assistant to the Chief Customer Officer
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At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.
We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:
The Foundation
Own the CCO's calendar, prioritize ruthlessly, protect time for deep work, and ensure every meeting has a purpose.
Book and manage all domestic and international travel end-to-end, including customer visits, conferences, and board meetings.
Arrange ground transportation, meals, and logistics before anyone has to ask.
Process and reconcile expenses accurately and on time.
Handle confidential information, from organizational changes to customer escalations to board materials, with discretion and sound judgment.
Partner closely with the CCO's direct reports, VPs, and their teams to anticipate what's coming.
The Operating Rhythm
Run the cadence of the Customer Experience organization: staff meetings, leadership reviews, quarterly business reviews, and all-hands. You'll own the calendar of the business, not just the calendar of one executive.
Build agendas that drive clarity and decisions, ensuring the CCO walks in prepped.
Capture decisions and action items in the room, then chase them to completion. You'll be the person who remembers what we committed to three weeks ago.
Pull together briefing documents for customer and executive meetings: who we're meeting, what's happened on the account, and what we want out of the conversation.
Keep executive materials moving: board and executive committee decks, customer memos, and leadership updates. You won't write the content on day one, but you'll own the deadlines, versions, and quality of what goes out.
Track the few priorities that matter most each quarter and flag it early when something starts to drift.
Coordinate across Sales, Marketing, Finance, People, and Product on the work that crosses organizational lines.
The Human Side
Plan recognition moments, offsites, and team events that feel personal instead of programmatic.
Source and send thoughtful gifts and touches for employees and customers.
Support customer executive engagement: dinners, campus visits, conference hospitality, and follow-up.
Be a steady, welcoming front door to the CCO for anyone in the company.
What You'll Need
Five or more years supporting C-suite or senior executive leaders, ideally in a fast-paced tech or SaaS environment.
A reputation for trustworthiness, discretion, and real respect from colleagues.
Strong calendar management and a clear approach to prioritization you can explain and defend.
Excellent written communication. You can draft a crisp note, agenda, or summary with minimal input.
Comfort building relationships and working cross-functionally at every level, from coordinators to the CEO.
Highly organized and adaptable. Shifting priorities don't rattle you.
Curiosity about the business itself. You ask why a meeting exists, why a number moved, and what happens next.
Comfort with data and detail. You can read a dashboard, spot the number that looks wrong, and raise your hand.
Sound judgment about what deserves the executive's attention and what you can resolve yourself.
Low ego, high standards, and a growth mindset. You do the work because it matters.
Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, and expense tools (Brex, Coupa, or similar).
Working fluency with AI tools, or real eagerness to build it. We use them every day.
Nice to Have
Experience at a private equity or venture-backed company, including exposure to board or investor reporting.
Experience supporting a customer-facing or revenue organization.
Project management experience, formal or scrappy.
Familiarity with education, edtech, or another mission-driven industry.
How This Role Grows
We're hiring for the next few years, not the next few months. You'll start with the calendar, the travel, and the operating cadence, because that's how you earn context and trust. Over time, the work shifts toward the business itself: owning projects end-to-end, preparing analysis and materials for the executive committee, and standing in for the CCO in rooms she can't be in.
If you want to build a long career as a world-class executive assistant, there's a real path here and a leader who will invest in it. If you want to grow into broader operating and strategy work, we'll build that path with you too. Either way, you'll learn more about how a global business runs than you would in almost any other seat.
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View Company ProfileInstructure is a premier educational technology company dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Founded in 2008 by two graduate students, the company completely disrupted the clunky, legacy Learning Management System (LMS) market by building Canvas—a highly intuitive, cloud-native platform born on AWS. Under the hood, the Instructure Learning Platform goes far beyond traditional coursework management; it encompasses a massive suite of integrated tools including Canvas LMS, Mastery (assessment), Elevate (analytics), and Impact (adoption tracking). Their primary target audience spans thousands of global institutions, ranging from massive K-12 school districts to prestigious Ivy League universities and fast-growing corporate training environments. What sets Instructure apart in the fiercely competitive EdTech space is its unwavering commitment to an open, extensible architecture—boasting a robust API and strict LTI standard compliance that allows educators to seamlessly plug in thousands of third-party apps—combined with a relentless focus on user experience (UX) that consistently drives the highest adoption rates among faculty and students worldwide.
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