EchoStar
Description
Company Summary:
What Success Looks Like (Objectives)
EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. We’ll launch your career and empower you to change lives.
Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.
Department Summary:
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, maintains a culture built on innovation, collaboration, and a long history in satellite technology, often described as having a relaxed but bureaucratic work environment. Hughes offers strong work-life balance and friendly teams. While the primary role will be providing support for the Hughes Network Systems group, it will lso include support for the larger EchoStar and Dish teams with international reach.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
The Executive Office operates within a fast-paced environment at the intersection of satellite communications, defense programs, and corporate restructuring. High operational volume and time-sensitive demands require dedicated operational management to ensure seamless leadership execution and decision-making. This role manages board-level reporting, complex executive logistics, cleared customer engagements, and critical correspondence across multiple senior leaders. By running day-to-day administrative machinery and information flow, the position enables executive focus on strategic priorities.
What Success Looks Like (Objectives)
- Manage complex, multi-principal calendars across multiple time zones, resolving scheduling conflicts independently and safeguarding designated focus time
- Deliver weekly executive status reports and status matrices by gathering inputs, tracking carry-over action items, and ensuring timely submission to the C-suite
- Coordinate logistics, security pre-clearance, and visit requests for board meetings, government customer site visits, and key partner engagements
- Triage high-volume executive correspondence, draft polished communications, and track open commitments through resolution
- Leverage AI tools and automated productivity workflows to accelerate document drafting, information synthesis, and administrative task execution
- Prepare, format, and control versioning for board-level pitch decks, briefing memos, and financial documents while maintaining strict confidentiality standards
Skills, Experience and Requirements:
Active TS/SCI security clearance or demonstrated eligibility to obtain and maintain TS/SCI
Core Skills and Competencies (What You’ll Bring)
- Critical experience providing high-level operational support to C-suite or senior executives within fast-paced, multi-principal, or cleared defense environments
- Applied literacy in generative AI and modern productivity platforms to automate research, streamline communications, and synthesize report inputs
- Expert proficiency across Microsoft Office tools, including advanced document formatting in Word, complex data handling in Excel, and board-level presentation design in PowerPoint
- Strong business writing, verbal communication, and proofreading abilities to produce executive-grade drafts with minimal oversight
- Demonstrated judgment and critical thinking in inbox triage, task prioritization, and handling sensitive or classified materials with absolute discretion
Additional Qualifications
- Experience operating within defense, aerospace, satellite communications, or government contracting sectors, including familiarity with security access systems such as DISS
- Exposure to corporate development, restructuring, or transaction environments requiring strict information discipline
- Experience supporting executive interfaces with boards of directors and institutional investors
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Communications, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Minimum Experience: 7+ years of experience supporting senior or C-suite executives
- Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 5 years of experience with:
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- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)
- Multi-principal calendar and enterprise scheduling management
- Active TS/SCI security clearance or demonstrated eligibility to obtain and maintain TS/SCI
Visa sponsorship not available for this role
Benefits:
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.
EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact leaves@dish.com if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.
Click the links to access the following statements: EEO Policy Statement, Pay Transparency, EEOC Know Your Rights (English/Spanish)
Salary Range: USD $59500.00 - $85000.00 / Year