Technical Data & Talent Intelligence Lead – Talent Communities & Insights

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

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

• Lead the governance of taxonomies to review, version, map, or phase out datasets, skill ontologies, and clusters of competitor companies.

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

• Collaborate with leaders in Talent Acquisition, Executive Recruiting, and Workforce Planning to pinpoint hiring challenges and establish requirements for reports, dashboards, and AI copilot use cases.

• Convert recruiting and business inquiries into technical data requirements in partnership with Technical Data and Analytics Engineering teams.

• Ensure that Snowflake data models yield meaningful metrics.

• Act as the functional product champion for Draup, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and SeekOut.

• Promote platform adoption, train recruiters, and identify gaps in features and data.

• Spearhead strategic market deliverables, including deep dives into competitors, executive talent dossiers, quarterly talent landscape overviews, and intake kickoff packages.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Extensive expertise in Analytics, ideally in HR, Talent, or People Analytics.

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

• Outstanding 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.

• Knowledge of skill ontologies, occupational frameworks like O*NET or ESCO, and competitor technographic data is preferred.

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

• Hands-on experience with Draup, LinkedIn Talent Insights, SeekOut, Phenom, or Workday is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a matching contribution from Cisco.

• Paid parental leave.

• Coverage for short- and long-term disability.

• Basic life insurance.

• Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available.

• 10 paid holidays each full calendar year.

• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off dedicated to personal wellness.

• 16 days of paid vacation annually for non-exempt employees.

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

• 80 hours of sick time off provided upon hire and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time can be carried forward each year.

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

• Option for 10 paid volunteer days each calendar year.

• Annual bonuses available for non-sales roles.

• Cisco benefits and perks are subject to plan eligibility and company policies.