1435402 - Chief Of Staff - Collaboration| Networking | Product Marketing

We change the World; you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired. At Cisco, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them. We stand for an inclusive future for all.

• You will be the hand of the SVP to run the business and proxy for the SVP when needed.
• Act as a sounding board to the SVP and senior leadership on matters of execution, efficiency, operation, engagements.
• Run all the PMO functions within this organization and manage a team of 15.
• Responsible for the organizational budget.
• Drive and thread Objectives and Key results to daily execution.
• Lead all aspects of corporate reporting and interlock with other functions.
• Build, iterate and improve customer commitment execution across any function of the business.
• Build, measure and report operating plan for the business.

You will join the Collaboration | Product Marketing| Networking team as the Chief of Staff reporting to the SVP & CMO of the business. Cisco's Collaboration & Webex business provides comprehensive communication tools and solutions, including the Webex Suite, Collaboration Devices, and Webex Cloud Contact Center, to enhance global collaboration and customer service. Meanwhile, the Networking Portfolio offers robust network infrastructure solutions, such as Switching, Routing, Wireless technologies, ThousandEyes for network intelligence, and Cisco Spaces for location-based services, supporting efficient connectivity and data transmission.

You are passionate, highly motivated, organized, and persistent. You excel at developing trusted relationships and can influence broadly to reach the best outcome for Cisco. You can apply structure to ambiguity and help drive toward measurable outcomes and results. You have the courage to voice an alternative point of view in a room of senior executives. You have high energy, critical thinking, problem solving superpower, and rally the team to common goal.

• BS/BA is required or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of professional experience working in large, matrixed organizations, preferably in a tech company
• 4+ years of experience as a Chief of Staff for a VP or SVP

• MBA/advanced degree is preferred.
• Proven track record establishing relationships at all levels within an organization, including C-suite/ EVP/SVP level.
• Excellent relationship-building skills: you influence, persuade, and build trust across your organizations.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias towards action and experimentation to drive progress.
• A growth mindset, boundless creativity, and adaptability, high situational awareness.
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills: you see the bigger picture, seek root causes, synthesize details, and break down obstacles into manageable work.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and communication skills, and refined skills in tailoring messages to specific audiences in their preferred channels.
• Demonstrable experience in strategy & planning, decision-making processes.
• Demonstrable experience in executive-level communication and/or interdepartmental collaboration, strategic execution, governance or objectives and key results tracking.
• Well versed and experienced with office productivity tools.

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all. We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box! But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. 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. A passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

We offer extensive employee benefits including 20 days of PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.