The Director of Operations will be responsible for working closely with the Vice President & General Manager of the Cloud Security Group (CSG) to manage the day-to-day senior operations, partnering with the leader to define, communicate and deliver the strategy of the Technology group. Combining alignment and development of the CSG strategy and portfolio, with day-to-day administration, problem solving and cross-functional engagement across the SBU and Cisco, this position will be instrumental in the execution of the CSG Strategy.
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About OpenDNS, now part of Cisco: OpenDNS is a leading provider of network security and DNS services, enabling the world to connect to the Internet with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. Our approach is twofold; first Umbrella, our cloud-delivered network security service, blocks advanced attacks including malware, botnets, and phishing threats, while our predictive intelligence engine uses machine learning to automate protection against newly-discovered threats before they can reach our customers. Today, we handle more than 80 billion daily Internet requests from 65 million+ users around the world. Our global network has proven reliability and adds no latency. We protect each and every one of our customers’ devices globally without any hardware to install or software to maintain. Working at OpenDNS means being surrounded by passionate, intelligent and creative people that are determined to disrupt the Internet security industry with innovative ideas, world-class research and unrivaled products and services. It’s a place where the best ideas are quickly transformed into products, features, campaigns and company-wide practices, so it won’t be long before you witness the results of your hard work. But don’t just take our word for it. We’ve seen nearly 100% year-over-year usage growth.
Who You Are
The ideal candidate should posses the ability to make recommendations, provide constructive feedback to and guide senior executives based on business acumen, alignment to and understanding of the strategic landscape, leveraging analytical skills as needed to create a business case, communication and respect. He/She should be able to effortlessly move from strategic thinking to managing tactical issues. This position requires the candidate to work extensively with CSG and SBU senior leadership team and partner with other Cisco functional organizations. A pro-active and aggressive approach to take on difficult issues and to uncover and address areas of weakness will be critical.
Our minimum requirements for this role:
• Supports and further enables the overall effectiveness for the SVP/GM of CSG
• Leads certain business initiatives across CSG and with other organizations: Finance, Marketing, Sales, Product
• Execute management processes (staff meetings, ops review, etc.) with a high degree of productivity, efficiency and scale
• Align efforts on goals and financial and performance metrics
• Leads business planning and portfolio analysis
• Partner with senior leadership team to align and execute the CSG vision
• Provide impartial analysis of CSG performance
• Ability to work with a senior leadership and management team
• Strong communication skills, active listener, ability to synthesize high level information
• Strong executive presence and proven ability to present strategic information to a broad range of audiences
• High degree of emotional maturity and seniority to represent the leader in executive level forums, meetings and engagements.
• Strong influencing skills. Proven ability to influence outside of the technology group and across roles and functions
• Program and product management skills/experience that led to successful execution
• Ability to apply structured problem solving (taking a large, complex problem and breaking it down into components, involve others as needed, drive resolution)
• Demonstrated, take-charge attitude • Attention to detail and ability to execute against tight timelines
• Strong Operational and Organizational skills
• Balanced Strategic and Tactical approach
• Works independently and participates primarily with senior management and executives
• Uses experience, business, and functional influences in accomplishing essential job requirements, even influencing without authority
• Strong interest and deep experience in driving change by working with a senior management team
• Broad Cisco network and experience
• Global mindset
• Experience in managing operations across all functional areas in a heavily matrixed environment
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