Executive Assistant

Columbia Sportswear Company • Portland, OR

20d • Onsite

About The Position

As one of Columbia Sportswear’s Executive Assistants, you’ll be the right hand to the company’s executive leaders. You’ll be relied on to balance a broad scope of administrative functions, confidential communications, and proprietary information. Your scope of work will include secretarial ownership, management of routine office matters, and coordination & engagement on special projects. In this role, you will be supporting the SVP, Chief Technology Officer and the SVP, Chief HR Officer.

Requirements

• High school or equivalent degree.
• Minimum 5-7 years’ work experience at C-Suite level, providing senior level administrative support in progressively responsible positions.
• Highly proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote/Drive, Microsoft Copilot) with an ability to create presentations using PowerPoint and/or other presentation software.
• Strong familiarity with calendaring, event planning, simultaneously manage & support multiple projects, and understanding what motivates people and teams.
• Success in this role requires being highly flexible, adapting quickly to change, and maintaining composure in fast-moving situations.
• A highly motivated self-starter who can work with a minimum level of supervision.
• Proactive at problem solving and making independent judgments.
• A rapport builder, exercising strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships across the organization.
• A wordsmith, crafting clear correspondence and communications.
• Organized, prioritizing competing tasks with confidentiality, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Resourceful and at times scrappy when needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a publicly held company is highly desired.
• Experience managing expense reporting strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Protect executive focus through strategic calendar management that prioritizes revenue‑driving work, partner alignment, and decision‑making moments.
• High level management of complex ever changing calendars for multiple executives.
• Enable fast, clear communication across teams by synthesizing updates, surfacing risks, and ensuring leaders have the right context at the right time.
• Lead operational excellence by owning business cadences, leadership meetings, offsites and department-wide meetings for technology and HR
• Excellence in event coordination, resourcefulness, and organization is critical to operating effectively and supporting the team at a high level.
• Build strong partner relationships to influence without authority and ensure seamless collaboration across functions.
• Identify gaps and streamline processes & meetings to reduce friction, improve speed, and support a high‑velocity retail environment.
• Model judgment, discretion, and calm in a fast‑moving, customer‑centric business where priorities shift quickly.
• Coordinate varying styles of meetings including but not limited to - department meetings, staff meetings, onsite/offsite meetings etc. Coordinating agenda, notes and communications.
• Adept at booking not only executive travel but communicate and plan extensive team travel spanning through multiple regions.

Benefits

• Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match.
• Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services).
• In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services.
• We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: High school or GED