What You’ll Do

The Chief of Staff for the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within the Strategy Office of the Security Business Group (SBG) is a key member of the organization’s leadership team. In this role you will think strategically and drive a strong agenda of accountability, execution and delivery. You will partner with other members of the CTO leadership team to align and execute against the team’s vision, strategy, and strategic promise.

Working closely with members of the CTOs leadership team and peers across the Strategy Office and other Business Units in SBG and Cisco, you will drive alignment, accountability, and win-win outcomes across a broad range of strategic, change management, and operational initiatives. You will demonstrate strong executive presence in representing the organization and effortlessly navigate from strategy to tactical issues.

Culture is the foundation for this organization. You will be a strong advocate and work relentlessly to ensure the cultural principles of the organization are practiced.

You are extremely organized and comfortable in rapidly changing, dynamic environments.

Other responsibilities include –

• Coordinate execution of key strategic initiatives. Drive process improvement and process simplification wherever possible.
• Collaborate on the organizational governance of success metrics tracking, accountability and progress reviews across FY initiative investments and ongoing organizational work, including OKRs.
• Responsible for internal communications. Create content and prep for internal executive presentations. Drive leadership demeanor and messaging across the leadership team. Support and advise the executive communications team on external presentations.
• Leadership and facilitation of staff meetings, all manager meetings, all org meetings, strategic offsites, and planning sessions.
• Provide effective counsel on complex organizational matters.
• Act as a trusted advisor, extensively collaborating with leadership, business stakeholders, internal operations and several cross-functional teams.

Who You Will Work With

You will be in a highly visible and business-impacting role. You will engage extensively with the CTO and his senior leadership team, executives across the business as well as SBG and Cisco peers.

Who You Are

You are high energy, highly motivated, organized and persistent. You excel at developing trusted relationships and can influence broadly (up, down, across) in order to reach the best possible 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 when in a room of senior executives. You have a passion for developing people and an organization. You are a good influencer and are able to navigate a range of work and leadership styles.

Skills and Experience

• Strong communicator. Confident in managing up/down/laterally.
• Ability to dive into most any area of the business or product
• Good sounding board for others in the company—provide open, honest feedback
• Entrepreneurial and efficient with limited resources
• Help team understand where you can be useful for them versus a roadblock
• Impeccable managerial and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of effectively interacting with senior management
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments
• Effective, versatile and action-oriented
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, be self-driven, multitask and manage dynamically changing, competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong cultural values, and ability to drive results through commitment, perseverance, and having fun
• 5+ years executive-level experience preferred

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere – From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.We benefit everyone – We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.