71 applicants

Company

Cisco · 8 hours ago

Cloud & AI Strategy, Planning, & Ops Sr. Director

US Remote

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$214K/yr - $353K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Conduct Strategic, Data-Driven Analyses: Advise GTM strategy that supports growth and scale of the global business. Define and leverage GTM levers to instrument growth-driven programs in our business.

Executive Communication: Tell the Cloud and AI story in both what we do and what we will do to senior executives across product business unit and executive leadership teams.

Cross-Functional Interaction: Proactively interact with cross-functional teams to better understand strengths and opportunities in the business, while aligning to action.

Build Growth Plan: Develop a growth plan in pipe generation from efficient demand generation through marketing, partners, and the build-out of a repeatable sales play engine.

Drive Customer Lifecycle: Drive our end-to-end customer lifecycle across the GTM, bringing together sales, customer success, and renewals into an integrated motion.

Identify Growth Levers: Identify levers to grow across discrete new, renew, and expand sales motions.

Strategic Assessment: Assess how best to spend a $1 of coverage against what customers, regions, products to increase output, including key strategic questions around renewals, customer success, field roles.

Qualification

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GTM strategySales operationsExecutive communicationData analysisCross-functional collaborationCRM toolsCloud strategyAI strategyProject managementSales play engineCustomer lifecycle managementQuantitative analysisQualitative analysisPublic speakingEquivalent

Required

12+ years' experience in a combination of sales strategy, operations, or management consulting.

BA/BS Degree

Preferred

Demonstrable experience partnering with executive sales leaders to achieve growth targets.

Extensive experience working directly with Executive leadership and steering Executive alignment across multiple functional areas.

Ability to motivate and lead cross-functional teams by example, even when challenges are extremely complex, and solutions are unclear.

Consistent track record in cross-functional collaboration, establishing relationships, and driving successful outcomes in a matrixed environment.

Project Execution: You have run programs that span approx. 6-12 months through to completion.

Strong communications & influencing skills, experience speaking publicly & working with partners at all levels, producing exec level content and conducting exec conversations.

Strong in framing & structuring business problems, prioritizing the effort, conducting complex quantitative and qualitative analysis, building an exec level story complete with recommendations.

Data specialist, able to see the heart of the results or opportunities to drive action.

Knowledge of CRM and Project Management tools.

Data Center Networking, Compute or AI Strategy experience from either an IT/Networking company or consulting firm preferred.

Curious and flexible, you enjoy variety and are willing to tackle different roles/responsibilities as business needs evolve.

A standout colleague: You love a challenge, you've always got your teammate's ask, and you're inspired working with others to achieve success.

Fail forward demeanor, leads as a natural innovator in the face of change and adversity.

MBA or equivalent experience is preferred.

Benefits

Quality medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

Short and long-term disability coverage

Basic life insurance

Numerous wellbeing offerings

Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year

One floating holiday

Day off for their birthday

Up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year

Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO

Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Company

Cisco

Glassdoor

4.3

Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.

Founded in 1984

San Jose, California, USA

10,001+ employees

http://www.cisco.com

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