Executive Assistant - GTM

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

POSITION SUMMARY

As an Executive Assistant, you will be supporting the EMEA Sales Leadership Team. You’ll also support the entire Harness Global Leadership Team as needed. You'll assume a wide range of day-to-day responsibilities, all of which will require independent coordination, prioritization and administrative support. Using your exceptional communication skills and multitasking abilities, you'll effectively help manage their time and help make the team as efficient as possible. This role reports to the SVP, EMEA Sales

The ideal candidate will be comfortable at the center of the day-to-day activities of a high-velocity Global Sales team, anticipating the needs of the leadership team, with a strong bias for action to identify and resolve any potential administrative or operational issues before they arise.

About The Role

• Manage calendars, including scheduling internal and external meetings and resolving scheduling conflicts.
• Ensure the Leaders are briefed and prepared for key meetings and planned activities.
• Arrange domestic and international travel.
• Prepare expense reports in a timely fashion.
• Actively attend and participate in both virtual and in-person meetings when appropriate, with follow up on action items.
• Help organize and execute internal team events.
• Support in monitoring and posting on social media.
• Coordinate with our CRO EA to collaborate on key initiatives including QBR’s, SKO/CKO, key marketing events, etc.
• Perform other admin-related tasks and projects as assigned.

About You

• A minimum of 5 years work experience in the capacity of an Executive Assistant or support function with similar responsibilities and transferable skills.
• The preferred location is London, UK.
• Ability to come into the office when Execs are present and/or events are occurring.
• Proficiency with Google apps, Microsoft Suite, Slack, Zoom, Navan, etc.
• Experience working at a start-up or rapidly-growing company.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and with a can-do attitude.
• Able to manage a variety of different working styles across the organization.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Strong work ethic and high level of integrity.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and practice discretion in your everyday work.
• Agile and flexible in response to changing priorities and needs with the ability to pivot quickly.

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave.
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events.
• Monthly internet reimbursement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected] . You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website ( , or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.