Executive Assistant, Social Impact and Inclusion Office (Hybrid)

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a hybrid role with at least two-three days per week at Cisco's Santana Row office in San Jose.

Meet the Team

You will be reporting to Cisco's Chief Accessibility Officer, Office of Accessibility, with dotted line reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy, Enablement, Governance, and Incubation for Cisco's Social Impact and Inclusion Office (SIIO). You will support both leaders directly in addition to providing basic administrative team support.

Your Impact

You will be very forward-thinking with a professional and approachable demeanor in all interactions, with good judgment. You will also possess outstanding communication skills with all levels of staff, executives, customers, vendors. You will ensure that accessibility is a key part of organizing meetings, materials, and all engagements.

• Calendar Management: You'll manage the Chief Accessibility Officer's and Senior Director's calendars, keeping them well-organized and detailed. Your role involves handling requests of varying importance and adapting to changing priorities, all while ensuring your principals days run smoothly.

• Meeting Planning and Organization: Assists principal leaders in planning and organizing meetings by being responsible for the assembling of the agenda, location, meeting technology based upon participant needs, the accessibility, and all other meeting logistics.

• Travel Briefing Preparation: You'll create comprehensive travel packs for international trips and significant domestic events. This includes gathering all event details and coordinating travel logistics, along with addressing customer and team requests.

• Travel and Expense Management: Responsible for making in-depth global travel arrangements for principal leaders. Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses.

• Event Speaking Engagement Coordination: Works closely with the team to ensure any logistics are understood and set in motion so principal leaders are prepared for each engagement.

• Correspondence/Approvals: Answers general questions as needed and refers routine matters to appropriate parties. Follows up to ensure accurate completion. Takes the initiative to resolve issues within specified policies. Determines when executive action is required and supplies a recommendation where appropriate.

• Special Projects: Provides analytical support to assist executives on special projects.

• Confidentiality: Candidate will deal professionally with sensitive and confidential matters and materials.

You have experience providing support at the Senior Director and VP level. You take initiative, can handle a full desk with ease and thrive in a lively environment. You have a passion for thinking bigger and broader than the role itself. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, independent judgment, utmost integrity and ability to balance both strategic and tactical actions. You have outstanding attention to detail and the ability to handle confidential information. You enjoy a collaborative environment, are committed to improvement, solve problems and make decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in an administrative environment. A minimum of 2 years of experience supporting a principal who was at the senior director level or above.

• Must be able to work onsite at the San Jose Santana Row office at least two days per week and be available to support any additional San Jose-based activities as needed.

• Expert level knowledge of Microsoft Outlook.

• Intermediate level knowledge of Windows desktop computer applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Experience in calendar management, planning meetings and coordinating travel.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to connect with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.

Preferred Qualifications

• Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired.

• Associates degree

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.

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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.