Location: Austin (hybrid)
Chief of Staff – Executive Business Manager
THE ROLE:
The Chief of Staff is the chief operating officer for the
global Server Business Unit. In this “hands-on” role, you will manage daily
operations and serve as a focal point for communication and interaction within
the management team. Finally, the Chief of Staff acts as a trusted advisor to
the Sr. Director and her staff.
THE PERSON:
The successful candidate is a proactive and execution
focused leader! She/he is skilled in developing and sustaining positive
interpersonal relationships, with a consistent track record of influencing in a
matrixed environment. The Chief of Staff is creative and innovative in crafting
solutions; is results driven with the ability to make decisions quickly.
Key Responsibilities:
• Drive
Server governance model (weekly staff and operational meetings); maintain a
calendar of events (internal, customer, partner); prepare presentations for key
internal executive, customer meetings, and events
• Effectively
work with each function across the Server staff for overall strategic planning,
program planning and management to support strategic goals
• Coordinate
and manage key segment and corporate deliverables on behalf of the Server
business unit
• Effectively
work across functional teams for overall strategic planning, program planning
and management to support strategic goals
• Drive
and enable a culture of innovation
• Develop
effective partnerships and work collaboratively with business partners (HR,
Fin, Legal, etc.)
• In
partnership with Communications and HR, develop and manage internal and
external communications
• Workforce
capacity and capability development including workforce planning, resource
management, skill gap analysis and skill inventory, and technical development
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• Demonstrated
technical team/project and program leadership success;
• Recent
and thorough experience in the hi-tech industry; experience in the PC industry
is highly desirable;
• Proactive
and execution focused;
• Skilled
in developing and sustaining positive interpersonal relationships;
• A
track record of creativity and innovation in solutions;
• Excellent
communication skills both verbal and written;
• Action
and results-orientation with the ability to make decisions quickly;
• High
level of proficiency in MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and in data
manipulation, analysis and presentation.
• Undergraduate
degree required, MBA preferred