Remote Talent Intelligence Lead, Insights & Strategy

Cisco; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a Talent Intelligence & Insights Lead to sit at the intersection of recruiting strategy, labor market analytics, and executive storytelling. This role will connect external labor market feeds with internal data to answer critical talent questions and inform hiring strategies.

You will define the talent intelligence roadmap, build executive-ready market briefings, and empower recruiters and leaders to make data-backed decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, analytics, market research, or workforce planning, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of intelligence, analytics, workforce strategy, or talent acquisition insights.
• Deep analytics experience, preferably HR/People Analytics.
• Proven synthesis and storytelling with multi-source data.
• Stakeholder leadership with cross-functional influence.
• Analytical fluency with BI tools, Excel, Airtable, or SQL (basic).

Responsibilities

• Define data architecture and governance for external talent intelligence data.
• Synthesize market signals into executive narratives and playbooks.
• Design talent intelligence roadmap and reports, dashboards, AI copilot use cases.
• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to map data requirements to Snowflake models.
• Lead vendor and tooling enablement for Draup, LinkedIn Insights, SeekOut.
• Create strategic market deliverables: ad-hoc deep dives, talent dossiers, landscape overviews.

Skills

Analytics

Storytelling

Stakeholder Leadership

Cross-functional

Executive storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Analytics/Market Research

Tools

Excel

Airtable

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Cisco Systems is seeking a Talent Intelligence & Insights Lead to sit at the intersection of recruiting strategy, labor market analytics, and executive storytelling. This role will connect external labor market feeds with internal data to answer critical talent questions and inform hiring strategies.

You will define the talent intelligence roadmap, build executive-ready market briefings, and empower recruiters and leaders to make data-backed decisions.