Senior Business-Ready Data Program Lead

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick time

Life insurance

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is hiring for a remote Business-Ready Data (BRD) program leader in the United States. You will steer the BRD portfolio, coordinate multi-project delivery, and drive governance across marketing, analytics, and technology teams.

The role emphasizes cross-functional accountability, risk management, and executive-level reporting to ensure predictable delivery and adoption of data capabilities across Marketing and MarTech platforms in a flexible, remote work model.

Qualifications

• 7 years of professional experience in project or program management.
• 4 years leading medium to large data, analytics, or technology programs.
• 4 years defining and validating project scope, integrated plans, schedules, milestones, and success metrics.
• 2 years coordinating data program delivery across business, engineering, analytics, and governance teams.
• 2 years managing program risks, dependencies, and change control with escalations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated BRD program roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects from requirements through validation and operationalization.
• Drive cross-functional accountability for deliverables, timelines, and decisions.
• Establish governance and change-control practices with Change Management partners.
• Provide concise executive reporting on program health, priorities, and blockers.

Skills

Program management

Data program leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Risk & change management

Scope & planning

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Snowflake

Adobe Experience Cloud

Salesforce

Job description

life insurance, vision insurance, parental leave, paid holidays, sick time, 401(k)

United States, Texas, Austin

Oct 30, 2026

this remote role is open to US based candidates, no relocation benefits are available.

Meet the Team

The Business-Ready Data (BRD) team builds a trusted, governed, and repeatable Marketing data capability that supports operations, reporting, measurement, Adobe/MarTech, and AI. We partner across Marketing Operations, Data Engineering, Analytics, Technology, Governance, and business teams to turn strategy into coordinated delivery. This role leads execution across the BRD portfolio, improving delivery predictability, multi-functional accountability, and the availability of reliable, reusable data.

Your Impact

• Lead the integrated BRD program roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence, ensuring alignment with Marketing, Adobe/MarTech, analytics, measurement, and AI priorities.
• Lead multiple concurrent projects from requirements through build, user acceptance testing, validation, certification, and operationalization.
• Drive cross-functional accountability for deliverables, decisions, timelines, and outcomes while resolving critical dependencies across business and technical teams.
• Establish consistent program management, governance, and change-control practices, partnering with Change Management to coordinate collaborator readiness and adoption.
• Handle risks and escalations, providing concise executive reporting on program health, progress, priorities, blockers, and decisions required, with clear impacts, options, and recommendations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years of professional experience in project or program management.
• 4 years of proven ability leading medium to large-sized data, analytics, or technology programs with multiple cross-functional interdependencies.
• 4 years of experience defining and validating project scope, integrated plans, schedules, milestones, and success metrics for complex initiatives.
• 2 years of experience coordinating data program delivery across business, engineering, analytics, and governance teams, including requirements, user acceptance testing, and operational readiness.
• 2 years of experience managing program risks, dependencies, and change control, including developing mitigation plans and communicating escalations to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading complex enterprise data, analytics, technology, or digital transformation programs in large, global, matrixed organizations.
• Demonstrable ability to translate business priorities into structured execution plans and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Solid understanding of enterprise data concepts, governance, data quality, and operational readiness.
• Experience supporting Marketing Operations/MarTech and working with Adobe Workfront, Snowflake, Adobe Experience Cloud, Salesforce, or similar enterprise technologies.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $111,100.00 to $147,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$134,500.00 - $202,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$119,200.00 - $200,800.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.