Senior Director of Engineering, Meraki Cloud

Application window has been extended and expected to close on 1/3/2025.

At Cisco Meraki, our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we've created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that's intuitive, secure, and accessible for everyone.

As head of Meraki Dashboard, you will lead the teams responsible for the Meraki Dashboard Platform and features that span the Meraki product line. The Dashboard is the face of the Meraki cloud ecosystem administrators have grown to love. You will take Meraki Dashboard to the next level of simplicity and scale as we innovate around opportunities in AI and security to meet the needs of administrators of some of the largest networks in the world.

Above all else, success in these efforts will depend on your ability to support the team of full-stack web developers and build strong relationships with other engineering leaders, UX, product management, and security partners. Meraki engineering is highly collaborative, so the engineers work closely within their teams and those they support with the platform.

You will:

1. Work with the CTO, head of Meraki Cloud, product management, and other senior engineering leaders to set the technical vision for the Meraki Dashboard Platform.
2. Guide engineering teams through defining short, medium, and long-term goals to achieve the vision.
3. Lead the recruiting strategy to build a diverse and inclusive team: driving decisions on whom the team needs to hire, partnering with our recruiters to define requirements, and talking to candidates.
4. Mentor and coach managers and senior engineers through technical and non-technical challenges.
5. Develop career plans for people on your team and help them do the same for theirs.
6. Encourage thoughtful and creative ways to recognize achievement.
7. Provide counsel as a member of senior engineering leadership.
8. Assist with engineering-wide initiatives such as offsites, training, and process evolution.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

1. Have extensive software engineering experience (10+ years) building web applications at scale.
2. Have experience managing through managers organizations of 50+ full-stack engineers and are passionate about growing as a leader.
3. Have experience building a team, making decisions on recruiting, and organizational design.
4. Have excellent communication skills and can articulate a compelling vision.
5. Have experience partnering closely with UX Design, Data Science, and Product Management, as well as other software engineering teams.
6. Have the empathy and emotional intelligence to lead a diverse group of engineers and managers at varying stages of their careers.

Bonus points:

1. Programming experience with Ruby on Rails and Javascript/React.
2. Have an understanding of networking basics, common protocols.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don't have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

At Cisco Meraki, we're challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We're building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.