# Senior Executive Business Partner
**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $115K-$190K
**Skills:** Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Navan, AI Tools, GitLab
**Posted:** 2026-05-07
> Supports GitLab's CIO with calendar management, travel, expenses, leadership cadences, and proactive operational coordination across the Office of the CIO. Requires executive support experience, strong judgment, tool proficiency, and relationship-building in a fast-paced tech environment.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities

- Support the Chief Information Officer with day-to-day administrative and operational needs across scheduling, communications, planning, and execution.
- Manage complex calendars by vetting requests, prioritizing meetings, recommending tradeoffs, and aligning schedules with GitLab meeting norms and practices.
- Proactively manage inbound requests to the CIO by framing issues, offering recommendations, and helping drive timely decisions.
- Own and strengthen leadership cadences across the broader Office of the CIO, including staff meetings, team meetings, planning rhythms, and other recurring operating mechanisms.
- Prepare detailed agendas, briefing materials, and meeting content in advance for internal and external meetings.
- Track follow-ups, action items, deliverables, and updates across direct reports and functional peers, and remind the CIO when action is needed.
- Help the CIO maintain visibility into team progress, emerging issues, and achievements.
- Build trusted working relationships with leaders, direct reports, and key contributors to provide informed insight.
- Coordinate end-to-end travel logistics, including transportation, lodging, security, visas, and documentation.
- Process expense reports and monitor reimbursements.
- Partner with People Operations, IT, recruiting teams, and other Executive Business Administrators for logistics, interviews, onboarding, and coverage.
- Manage team meetings, onsites, and events: scheduling, materials, vendor coordination, agenda development, pre-meeting prep, note-taking, action item tracking, budget support using AI tools.

## Requirements

- Experience supporting senior executives in fast-moving environments, managing shifting priorities, sensitive matters, and competing demands.
- Proactive, partnership-oriented style: anticipate needs, move quickly, adapt to change.
- Comfort with ambiguity, complexity, sound judgment, calm execution, strong problem-solving.
- Ability to manage complex calendars, travel, and expenses for multiple stakeholders with accuracy and communication.
- Experience with technology or IT organizations, supporting cross-functional operations.
- Strong executive communication: synthesize information, prepare recommendations, ensure timely content.
- Demonstrated follow-through, accountability, confidence to keep leaders on track.
- Strong interpersonal skills, build trusted relationships, maintain discretion with confidential info.
- Proficiency with **Google Workspace**, **Slack**, **Zoom**, **Navan** (or similar) for collaboration, scheduling, travel, expenses.
- Comfort using **AI tools** for productivity, automation, information synthesis.
- Collaborative, independent, detail-oriented; open to transferable admin/project coordination experience.
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