Enterprise AI Portfolio Manager
Cisco
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cincinnati • Ohio • United States
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About the role
- Own and maintain the enterprise AI portfolio inventory, including initiatives, status, milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes
- Establish and sustain clear traceability from enterprise AI strategy to initiatives and delivered business value
- Design, build, and maintain executive dashboards and portfolio reporting views used for leadership decision-making
- Define and manage portfolio KPIs and metrics, including value delivered, adoption, delivery health, risk, capacity, duplication, and maturity
- Deliver fact-based insights that support prioritization, sequencing, capacity planning, and leadership trade-off decisions
- Identify and surface portfolio risks early, including over-commitment, duplication, stalled initiatives, misalignment to strategy, and unclear outcomes
- Develop and maintain a lightweight governance model that aligns teams and supports consistent portfolio reporting without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Establish and lead a portfolio operating cadence, including monthly portfolio reviews and quarterly strategy and value refreshes
- Drive portfolio hygiene and continuous improvement by ensuring timely updates, addressing aging or stalled work, and reducing manual reporting effort
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Information systems, or related fields
- Eight or more years of experience in portfolio management, strategy execution, transformation, analytics, or product operations within a complex enterprise environment
- Demonstrated experience managing product or capability portfolios, not solely project tracking
- Hands-on experience building executive dashboards and portfolio views using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent BI platforms
- Strong competency in KPI design, metric definition, and portfolio analytics, with the ability to challenge weak or inconsistent data
- Executive-ready communication skills with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear narratives and recommendations
- Proven ability to work through ambiguity, influence without authority, and drive cross-functional alignment.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- wellness plans
- parental leave
- adoption assistance
- tuition reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- paid holidays
- a 401(k) plan with company match
- employee stock purchase plan
- commuter benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
portfolio managementstrategy executiontransformationanalyticsproduct operationsKPI designmetric definitionportfolio analyticsexecutive dashboardsbusiness value delivery
Soft Skills
executive-ready communicationsynthesizing complexityinfluence without authoritycross-functional alignmentworking through ambiguityleadership decision-makingfact-based insightscontinuous improvementrisk identificationstakeholder engagement