Meet the Team
Engineering in Poland has grown from an agile 60-person R&D site into a 700+ person strategic innovation hub supporting Splunk Platform Engineering, Security, and Observability. As part of Cisco, the hub connects global engineering priorities with Poland’s technology talent and contributes to products used across the business. The team works across Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, People, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and other partners, balancing a collaborative technical culture with the scale and rigor of an enterprise organization. This is an opportunity to help shape the hub’s next chapter as it evolves after the acquisition and expands its impact across Cisco.
Your Impact
Serve as a strategic operations partner to Engineering leaders, enabling directors, managers, and teams to focus on delivery while strengthening site performance, alignment, and transparency. Lead planning and leadership rhythms, translating executive goals into site priorities, tracking decisions and organizational health, and surfacing risks. Partner with Finance, Talent Acquisition, People, and Engineering leaders to manage workforce capacity, budgets, and site programs with sound governance and discretion. Improve operating processes, reporting, and tools while aligning legacy Splunk practices with Cisco frameworks and preserving the hub’s agility. Success means leaders have reliable data and clear decisions, resources align with product priorities, and the Poland hub remains an engaged, effective center of engineering excellence.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in business operations, technical program management, or engineering operations within a software, technology, or technical organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing engineering operations, including operational planning, workforce capacity planning, organizational metrics/KPI tracking, or budget management.
- Professional experience working within or supporting a technology R&D site, Center of Excellence (CoE), or global delivery hub in Poland.
- Hands-on experience operating in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, Agile SDLC, or platform engineering environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Prior experience leading site or business operations in an engineering organization, including post-acquisition integration or operating model change.
- Program, project management, or Agile framework certification.
- Experience with Workday, Tableau, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or business intelligence dashboards; executive communication and cross-functional influence.
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.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in business operations, technical program management, or engineering operations within a software, technology, or technical organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience managing engineering operations, including operational planning, workforce capacity planning, organizational metrics or KPI tracking, or budget management.
- Professional experience supporting a technology R&D site, Center of Excellence, or global delivery hub in Poland.
- Hands-on experience with SaaS, cloud infrastructure, Agile SDLC, or platform engineering environments.
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Experience leading site or business operations in an engineering organization, including post-acquisition integration or operating model change.
- Program, project management, or Agile framework certification.
- Experience with Workday, Tableau, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or business intelligence dashboards.
- Executive communication and cross-functional influence experience.
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
