# Business Operations Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,500.00 to $193,300.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Data Center and Internet Infrastructure team is critical in crafting the future of networking and compute solutions for enterprise, hyperscalers, and service provider customers.

As a Business Operations Manager within the Data Center and Internet Infrastructure (DCII) product organization, you will serve as a key operational strategist and partner.

Responsibilities:

- Central Operational Leadership: Act as an operational partner overseeing core operational cadences, the rhythm of the business, support the measurement of our strategic priorities, and ensure follow-up is rigorously tracked across the entire organization.

- Employee Experience & Onboarding: Own the end-to-end employee lifecycle experience.

- AI Strategy & Advocacy: Support the DCII AI Ambassador program.

- Executive Communication & Wins: Collaborate with Executive Communications to document, socialize, and celebrate critical customer wins.

- Strategic Initiatives: Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects that require complex stakeholder management and drive toward measurable business outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Experience in high-tech business operations, chief of staff roles, program management, or a similar function.

- Experience with the Microsoft Office (such as SharePoint, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

- Experience using AI platforms such as Codex, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGBT

- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or equivalent relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience using AI tools for business productivity and a strong desire to stay at the forefront of AI innovation.

- Expertise in managing end-to-end programs, from planning and cross-functional alignment through execution, measurement, and continuous improvement.

- Ability to identify operational bottlenecks and proactively implement scalable solutions.

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills; ability to synthesize complex information into compelling narratives for executive audiences.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- 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

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- AI platforms
- business operations

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- program management
- communication skills

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