Technical Data Lead, Talent Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +3 more locations.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical data strategy, entity models, and normalization standards for external talent intelligence data.

• Lead governance of taxonomy to evaluate, update, map, or retire datasets, skill ontologies, and competitor company groups.

• Integrate competitor talent flows, hiring speed, skill clusters, compensation trends, and attrition patterns into executive narratives, presentations, and sourcing playbooks.

• Establish the talent intelligence product roadmap for reports, dashboards, and AI copilot applications.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition leaders, Executive Recruiting, and Workforce Planning to pinpoint hiring challenges and define requirements.

• Convert recruiting and business inquiries into technical data specifications with the Technical Data and Analytics Engineering team.

• Ensure that Snowflake data models provide impactful metrics.

• Advocate for Draup, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and SeekOut, promoting usage, training recruiters, and identifying gaps in features and data.

• Oversee strategic market deliverables, including in-depth competitor analysis, executive talent dossiers, quarterly talent landscape summaries, and intake kickoff packages.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Analytics, Market Research, Workforce Planning, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in Intelligence, Analytics, Workforce Strategy, or Talent Acquisition Insights.

• Extensive domain knowledge in Analytics, ideally within HR, Talent, or People Analytics.

• Proven track record of synthesizing complex, unstructured data from various external sources into executive-ready narratives, presentations, and dashboards with actionable recommendations.

• Excellent communication and consulting abilities.

• Demonstrated success in aligning cross-functional leaders, business partners, and executives without direct authority.

• Proficient in manipulating, querying, and interpreting datasets from multiple sources.

• Familiarity with BI reporting tools, advanced Excel/Airtable, or basic SQL is advantageous.

• Experience in crafting intake briefing frameworks or talent intelligence playbooks for technical and executive recruiting teams is preferred.

• Understanding of skill ontologies, occupational frameworks such as O*NET or ESCO, and competitor technographic data is preferred.

• Experience with AI, agentic systems, or automated sourcing copilots is preferred.

• Practical knowledge of talent intelligence and sourcing platforms like Draup, LinkedIn Talent Insights, SeekOut, Phenom, or Workday is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions.

• Paid parental leave.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available.

• 10 paid holidays each calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• Paid day off for birthdays.

• Paid holiday shutdown at year-end.

• 4 paid personal wellness days.

• 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.

• Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees.

• 80 hours of sick leave provided at hiring and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick leave carried forward annually.

• Additional paid time off for critical or emergency family matters.

• Optional 10 paid volunteer days each calendar year.

• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.

• Performance-based incentive pay for sales-plan employees.