Director, Business Model Planning & Design

At Cisco Networking Experiences (“NX”), we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free passionate people to focus on their mission. Meraki is the fastest-growing cloud-managed team in the world, our product and technology architecture is changing the landscape of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.

YOU:

We are looking for a leader to join our Business Model Planning and Design team to define and execute an engagement model with internal stakeholders that will extract their critical business needs and ready them for program execution! Reporting to Meraki’s Senior Director of Business Model Planning and Design, you will work closely with internal functional leaders and use planning and prioritization to build clear roadmaps with tangible requirements that will accelerate business transformation and improve efficiency. You will lead our functional planning and business design efforts, working to identify and deliver our clients’ highest priorities while participating in operating cadences grounded in our values and best practices. And, you will be the voice of your stakeholders for critical, enterprise-level, multi-functional initiatives, guiding on capabilities needed for a high-growth, subscription forward business. Are you motivated by enabling change at a pace that mirrors the velocity of the business, while maintaining a high level of care and empathy for stakeholders and the problems they are seeking to solve?  Come join us!

• Own, direct, and manage the day-to-day activities of a team of business designers and architects responsible for medium-to-large sized projects that may involve complex cross-functional dependencies and interdependent solutions.
• Ensure that NX stakeholder needs are captured, prioritized, and readied for execution with clear value measures, capability roadmaps, and business requirements.
• Partner with Program Management and Delivery leaders to establish and operate a motion that provides transparency to stakeholders, with documented program plans, meaningful status, and that properly involve stakeholders in mitigating risks and making trade-off decisions.
• Partner with NX SVPs, GMs, and other Senior Leaders to maximize the value they derive from key business applications, help them adopt core services, and identify process and application improvements.
• Proactively assess the core services we provide, benchmarking our key business applications against external technology trends and internal customer roadmaps to identify future improvements and investment opportunities
• Lead, grow, and invest in a team of business designers and architects, building and sustaining an environment centered on trust, learning, belonging, and accountability.

• Outstandingly clear. You distill complicated ideas into just the right number of words, are a deep listener, and can pinpoint what compels and brings an audience along.
• Inspire Change. You build strong, positive relationships and can lead others to do what is vital. You can articulate a clear direction and design paths to deliver on outcomes.
• Hypothesis-obsessed. You use hypotheses to drive engagements with stakeholders and teams. You use data where available to guide decisions and measure efficiency. You are analytical, passionate about outcome delivery, and are committed to quantifying the impact.
• You take an organization-level view and are equally invested in the success of other groups. You invite and act on different points of view.
• You are a critical thinker and problem solver. You orient to getting things done and believe in the power of progress.
• A career accelerator. You invest in your team’s development. You take the time to know what encourages and motivates each person and commit to making work significant.

• Leading high-visibility, enterprise-level, initiatives with high revenue/cost mitigation impact in dynamic environments with tight turnarounds.
• Leading change to accelerate an organization’s business outcomes.
• Designing systems using project lifecycle management (design, testing, implementation, and support).
• 10+ years of Business Process or consulting experience in Sales, Marketing, or Operations & Fulfilment functions.
• 5+ years of leadership experience at a senior level.

#LI-Remote

Why Cisco Meraki?

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking ambitious risks to craft the technologies that give us connected cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unusual personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. We are encouraging leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Cisco Meraki.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Compensation Range: $140,000 USD -$210,700 USD 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.: When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire salaries in U.S. locations. For non-sales roles, the hiring ranges reflect base salary and do not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive target, and do not include equity or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.