This Director will lead team defining and driving technology strategy for Cisco Services. Ensure that the right technology priorities are set, in alignment with/support of Services’ business strategy. Work cross functionally to manage the portfolio of technology enablement initiatives, ensuring the right priorities and requirements are established. Work closely with business stakeholders as a trusted advisor to develop optimal technology enablement plans/strategies for new and existing offers.
- Contribute to strategic discussions, help translate business strategies and ideas into actionable technology strategies and plans. Balance forward-looking/innovation-focused/strategic views with pragmatic perspective and ability to help align and realize the vision.
- Build forward-looking, horizon 2 and 3 opportunities (in addition to translating current opportunities); work with distinguished engineers and business strategy team to identify and articulate medium to long term services opportunities where technology or biz model or both are not yet fully developed.
Work cross-functionally across Cisco Services and Cisco to enable/support strategic technology initiatives.
- Lead team that establishes technology requirements and priorities for Services’ technology investments; ensure ability to connect services strategy to business strategy and ultimately to ROI for Cisco, Partners, and Customers.
- Engage with business strategy to ensure that technology aspects are considered and fully incorporated into our business strategy, including uncovering opportunities where technology enables new business opportunities/strategies, and identifying/articulating technology trends that may be central to shaping our business strategy.
- Due to the nature of this role, the candidate will have an opportunity to interact with the senior most leaders in the business. This Role is for someone with high tolerance for ambiguity and find pragmatic ways to connect strategy with realistic execution objectives.
Minimum Qualifications
The successful candidate will be a seasoned executive with strong business acumen, ability to think strategically, technology acumen, and a proven track record of developing technology strategies to support businesses, leveraging resources and capabilities from across the enterprise. The successful candidate will have proven ability leading product management or similar functions where distilling requirements, making joint trade-offs, and working closely with development teams are required. Through strong, collaborative partnerships and earned credibility, this leader is able to effectively manage and influence executive stakeholders, driving adoption of strategic programs across a Global Services organization and within Cisco’s broader ecosystem.
This leader should be broad thinking with the ability to analyze complexity and make recommendations, provide constructive feedback to and guide senior executives based on understanding of the strategic landscape, leveraging thought leadership to create a business case. This leader and his/her team will work extensively with senior leaders across Services and other Cisco organizations. A pro-active and assertive approach to take on difficult issues and to uncover and address areas of opportunity will be critical.
Critical Capabilities:
SHAPING STRATEGY: Connects Company and Services business challenges and priorities to develop an aligned technology strategy that supports the ultimate vision for the organization
EXECUTION EXCELLENCE: Demonstrates a strong drive for results in achieving the execution priorities defined by the vision and strategy
Building (and converging) Roadmaps (as a concrete plan of the short- and long-term goals and measures) and influencing as needed Engineering roadmaps.
DEMONSTRATING PASSION: Build passion in others for achieving long term goals and driving to the future state.
• Strong collaboration, relationship building and relationship management
• Strong executive presence and proven ability to present strategic information to a broad range of audiences.
• Thought leadership with the ability to take conceptual ideas and translate them into a forward thinking strategy with defined goals and measurements that integrate with the overall strategy of Cisco Services.
Desired Skills
• Well versed and implemented modern agile methodologies around Software
Life Cycle Management.
• Experience in solution and service creation
• Extremely high ability to articulate and document roadmaps, linkages
• between concepts, and help map to end state outcomes
• Have a passion for actually helping others reach their goals down inside
• the various businesses
• Has an eye for things that need to be consistent and willing to challenge when ³consistency² or ³centralization² is the wrong answer
• Material experience in cloud/analytics/knowledge mgmt. and Agile/DevOps/NetOps.
• Optimally, real world SP or ENT Architecture experience
• Experience working with Big 5 Consulting Firms
• Customer savvy; ability to quickly read customer business priorities
• Ability to clearly map business priorities to technology initiatives
• Experience working effectively in large, complex and matrixed organizations
• Proven success leading product management or similar functions where distilling requirements, making clear trade-offs, and working closely with development teams is central to success
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Ability to think creatively and evidence of success in developing and executing plans for large scale projects or programs
• Proven leadership abilities
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