Based in San Jose, CA, this role is part of a globally distributed organization responsible for enabling supply continuity and long-range capacity readiness. The position requires seamless collaboration with teams, suppliers, and partners across multiple geographies, along with the flexibility to support business-critical engagement outside of standard working hours as needed.

Your Impact

At Cisco, capacity is much more than manufacturing capability. It is a strategic advantage that enables growth, strengthens customer commitments, and helps bring innovative Silicon One technologies to market.

As Director, Global Capacity Planning & Strategy, you will build and implement the long-term capacity strategy that supports Cisco's Silicon One business around the world. Working across foundries, advanced packaging providers, substrate suppliers, assembly, test, and other key manufacturing partners, you will help ensure that our supply network evolves alongside customer demand, technology roadmaps, and business priorities.

Reporting into Silicon Manufacturing Operations, you will partner across Cisco and our external ecosystem to anticipate opportunities, navigate constraints, and enable confident business decisions. You will also help redefine how capacity planning is done by using AI, automation, sophisticated analytics, and digital workforce technologies to develop the next generation of planning capabilities. This is an opportunity to influence the future of one of the industry's most strategic functions!

Global Capacity Strategy & Supplier Partnerships

We work at the intersection of technology, manufacturing, and business growth. In this role, you will collaborate with strategic manufacturing partners across the semiconductor ecosystem to develop capacity strategies that support Cisco's long-term ambitions.

You will translate business plans, product roadmaps, and customer demand signals into clear capacity requirements and guide long-range reservation, allocation, and investment decisions. By building positive relationships with suppliers and internal partners, you will help secure the manufacturing capabilities needed to support future growth while creating flexibility for changing market conditions.

Risk Management & Decision Support

You will lead scenario modeling and risk analysis across wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, substrates, assembly, and test operations. By identifying potential constraints early and evaluating alternatives, you will help the business respond quickly to technology transitions, demand shifts, supply disruptions, and growth opportunities.

Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide data-driven recommendations that support investment decisions, supply continuity, customer commitments, and long-term business success.

AI & Digital Planning Transformation

You will help accelerate Cisco's adoption of AI-enabled planning by combining human expertise with intelligent digital capabilities. Through automation, predictive analytics, real-time insights, and scenario-based decision support, you will modernize planning processes and enhance how decisions are made across the organization.

Your leadership will help improve planning speed, increase visibility across the supply chain, and enable teams to focus more time on strategic decision-making and innovation.

Global Leadership & Team Development

You will lead and inspire a distributed team spanning regions, cultures, and time zones. By creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued, you will help individuals grow, contribute, and achieve their full potential.

Together, we will build strong planning capabilities, develop future leaders, and create a collaborative culture that encourages curiosity, learning, and bold thinking. Your leadership will help our organization thrive in a fast-moving global manufacturing environment.

Meet the Team

You'll partner closely with Business Units, Product Operations, Demand & Supply Planning, Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing Operations, NPI/Ramp Planning, Test Engineering, Test Operations, and Engineering Leadership.

Together, we make some of the most important tradeoff decisions in the business, balancing revenue growth, supply assurance, capacity investments, customer commitments, inventory strategies, technology transitions, and business risk.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain, planning, or operations experience.

• 8+ years of experience leading global teams and cross-functional organizations.

• Experience working within highly outsourced semiconductor manufacturing environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of foundry, OSAT, advanced packaging, and substrate ecosystems.

• Expertise in capacity planning, supply planning, semiconductor manufacturing, supplier engagement, and integrated business planning.

• Experience advancing AI, automation, digital transformation, or sophisticated analytics capabilities.

• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and build positive relationships across the semiconductor ecosystem.

• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.

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Why Cisco? 

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. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

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 of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to 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.