Senior Data Analyst, Business Analytics (AI)

Sr Data Analyst, Business Analytics

We believe that when passionate people can spend less time struggling with technology, they can spend more time on what matters - like teaching children, running businesses, keeping airports safe, and connecting disaster victims with relief. That's the real power of simplicity. Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud-managed IT, thanks to our creative, inclusive, fearless team that is driven to simplify technology so the world can simply work!

Cisco Meraki is revolutionizing how IT administrators manage their infrastructure by providing simple and secure cloud-managed solutions! With a large install base of customers and rich, multi-dimensional data sets, the potential for data analytics to improve business performance for our customers and our own business is enormous.

The Data Science team is a growing group that works closely with executives and leaders across the company to support the development and alignment of our business strategy. As a Senior Data Analyst in this group, you will develop cross-functional relationships and bring rigorous quantitative methods to bear on product data to drive near- and longer-term impact. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on technical skills to ensure that projects are not only conceptualized effectively but also executed to completion with high quality.

We are expanding our capabilities to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to solve complex data challenges, uncover hidden insights, and accelerate datadriven decisionmaking. As part of this evolution, you will play a key role in identifying opportunities where AI can enhance analytics, automate processes, and improve organizational efficiency, effectively doubling down on efforts to embed AI into our workflows and optimize business outcomes.

What will you do :

• Collaborate Across Teams : Partner with PM and Engineering leaders to define key metrics for monitoring and understanding product performance and the customer experience
• Drive AI-Enhanced Analytics : Leverage AI-powered analytics tools (such as Snowflake Cortex and similar platforms) to build intelligent reports, surface hidden patterns, generate automated insights, and proactively recommend actions for product and operational improvements.
• Champion AI Adoption : Maintain a growth mindset around AI, constantly learn and experiment with new AI technologies, frameworks, and methodologies. Lead initiatives to adopt and scale AI tools within the analytics function.
• Develop Next-Generation Dashboards : Create compelling, intuitive, and automated dashboards for PM, Engineering, and Executives, utilizing AI to enhance visualization, automate discovery, and deliver actionable intelligence
• Identify High-Value AI Use Cases : Independently uncover opportunities to apply AI, such as trend detection, anomaly detection, forecasting, and natural language summarization-to improve operational processes and inform business strategy.
• Partner on Data Integration : Work with data infrastructure teams to support Cisco data integration into the Meraki ecosystem, ensuring AI and analytics tools are optimized for evolving business needs.

What skills you possess :

Who you are :

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 engineers come from diverse 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.

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 :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

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

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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 :

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 :

$165,000.00 - $277,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$146,700.00 - $247,000.00