Application window is expected to close on Oct 16, 2024 This is a HYBRID role: Tuesday and Wednesday; required to be in the office at our San Jose, CA HQ
As a Director in Cisco's Corporate Strategy team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our business vision and strategy. You will lead teams and coordinate projects that identify and explore new technologies and business models, driving decision-making and investments to turn strategic opportunities into reality. This role offers a unique chance to work closely with Cisco's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and senior leaders across various business units, giving you the opportunity to tackle sophisticated challenges and gain deep insights into the strategic issues prioritized by the ELT.
What You'll Do:
Join our Chief Strategy Office and be instrumental in crafting Cisco's vision and strategy. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading teams and steering multiple projects to identify and explore new technologies and business models, extending Cisco's technology leadership and customer relevance.
- Driving decision-making, execution, and investments to bring strategic opportunities to fruition.
- Collaborating closely with Cisco business units and cross-functional leadership to formulate long-term strategic priorities and plans, such as organic and inorganic growth strategy, product strategy, emerging industry trends, market dynamics, and critical initiatives.
- Working cross-functionally with external and internal collaborators, partnering with Cisco's product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, and other teams. Becoming an authority in Cisco's business, with a deep understanding of the markets we serve and the competitors we face, including AI infrastructure, enterprise/carrier/DC networking, security, observability, and digital resilience.
- Leading teams of highly capable and motivated strategy professionals.
- Crafting and landing CX Strategy for global technology market leaders, spanning technical support, innovative ways to accelerate customer adoption of hardware/software/SaaS product portfolios, renewals, partner success, AI/Gen AI-powered CX platform, professional services, routes-to-market (RTM) for hardware, software, and as-a-Service products, and crafting support/service offers to market.
Who You'll Work With
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Our team's charter includes the ongoing development and coordination of Cisco's corporate strategies. We partner with the ELT and leaders across all of Cisco to craft and drive Cisco's strategy for innovation, growth, profitability, and market leadership. You'll team up with a diverse group of professionals, all committed to driving Cisco's success.
Who You Are:
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic leader with the following qualifications:
- An MBA degree from a world-class institution or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of post-MBA experience in a top-tier consulting firm, corporate strategy function, or financial services field.
- Proven experience in leading people and teams.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
- 5+ years in all areas of strategy development, including project management, business analysis, problem-solving, communication, consensus building, and people development.
- Ability to excel in a fast paced and dynamic team environment.
- Able to be IN OFFICE Tuesday and Wednesday each week in our San Jose, HQ location.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong analytical and financial abilities to work on complex business issues with minimum supervision.
- Extensive knowledge of the high-tech industry, with the ability to quickly ramp up in new areas.
- Ability to thrive in an unstructured team environment.
Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!
Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).
We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
