Remote Talent Intelligence & Data Strategy Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability

Basic life insurance

RSUs vesting upon continued employment

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Talent Intelligence Leader to own the data strategy, governance, and reporting for external talent intelligence. You will partner with TA leadership to define the roadmap for reports, dashboards, and AI copilots, translating business questions into data requirements and ensuring Snowflake models deliver meaningful metrics.

This remote US role involves collaborating with executives to synthesize market signals, talent flows, compensation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Analytics, Market Research, Workforce Planning, or a related field, plus 7+ years of experience in Intelligence, Analytics, Workforce Strategy, or Talent Acquisition Insights.
• Deep domain expertise in Analytics (HR, Talent, or People Analytics).
• Proven track record synthesizing complex, messy data across multiple external vendors into crisp, executive-ready stories, slide decks, and dashboards with recommendations.
• Exceptional communication and consulting skills, with demonstrated success aligning cross-functional leaders, business partners, and executives without direct authority.
• Comfortable manipulating, querying, and interpreting multi-source datasets; working knowledge of BI reporting tools, advanced Excel/Airtable, or basic SQL is helpful, though deep data engineering is not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical data strategy, entity models, and normalization standards for external talent intelligence data; lead the taxonomy governance board to review, version, map, or retire datasets, skill ontologies, and competitor company clusters.
• Cross-Source Insights & Storytelling: Synthesize disparate market signals into clear, actionable executive narratives, presentations, and sourcing playbooks.
• Talent Intelligence Product Roadmap: Partner with Talent Acquisition leaders to identify hiring challenges and define requirements for new reports, dashboards, and AI copilots.
• Bridge Strategy & Analytics Engineering: Translate high-level recruiting and business questions into technical data requirements to deliver meaningful metrics.
• Vendor & Tooling Enablement: Champion tools (Draup, LinkedIn Insights, SeekOut), drive adoption, training, and identify feature gaps.
• Executive & Sourcing Briefings: Lead strategic market deliverables from deep-dives to talent landscape overviews.

Skills

Talent analytics

Executive storytelling

Stakeholder leadership

SQL (basic)

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Airtable

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Talent Intelligence Leader to own the data strategy, governance, and reporting for external talent intelligence. You will partner with TA leadership to define the roadmap for reports, dashboards, and AI copilots, translating business questions into data requirements and ensuring Snowflake models deliver meaningful metrics.

This remote US role involves collaborating with executives to synthesize market signals, talent flows, compensation