Acquisition Integration Specialist

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 09/02/2026Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Preference for candidates local to the San Jose, Raleigh or Atlanta office, able to be onsite one day a week. Meet the Team Cisco's Corporate Development Integration (CDI) organization partners across Finance, Legal, Sales, Customer Experience, Operations, and various business units to successfully integrate acquired businesses into Cisco. Our team works at the intersection of mergers and acquisitions, customer operations, and business transformation, helping ensure customers experience a seamless transition while enabling Cisco to realize the full value of each acquisition. This is a high-visibility, high-growth opportunity for someone early in their career who learns fast, thrives with ambiguity, and enjoys working as part of a team. You'll get direct exposure to senior leadership and close partnership with Legal, Sales, the acquiring Business Unit, and Customer Experience — a rare seat for someone at this stage of their career to see how a company actually integrates acquisitions from the ground up. Your Impact As an Acquisition Integration Specialist, you will play an important role in helping Cisco successfully transition customers from acquired companies into Cisco's quote-to-cash ecosystem. Working alongside experienced integration leaders, you will support customer migration strategy from acquisition due diligence through execution, helping ensure acquired customers are successfully onboarded to Cisco's products, pricing, contracts, and operational processes. You will participate in acquisition due diligence by reviewing legacy customer contracts, commercial terms, pricing structures, renewal models, and termination provisions to develop an understanding of customer obligations and migration complexity. You'll analyze how customers purchase products and services, reconcile contractual information with booking and revenue data, and help identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities throughout the integration process. Working closely with Legal, Customer Experience, Sales, Business Unit leadership, and other cross-functional stakeholders, you will help define migration strategies that transition customers from legacy business models onto Cisco's pricing, systems, and quote-to-cash processes. You will contribute to strategy discussions, help identify edge cases and operational challenges, and support continuous refinement of migration plans as new information becomes available. In this highly collaborative environment, you will help coordinate cross-functional execution by supporting program plans, tracking milestones, facilitating recurring team meetings, proactively identifying blockers, competing priorities, and making key decisions requiring leadership attention. Your ability to learn quickly, communicate effectively, and build strong working relationships across organizations will contribute to successful customer transitions with minimal disruption. This role offers exceptional exposure to Cisco's acquisition integration process, providing early-career professionals with the opportunity to develop expertise in mergers and acquisitions, customer operations, contract analysis, revenue processes, and more, all while partnering directly with senior leaders across the company. Minimum Qualifications · BS/BA degree · 0–3 years of professional experience, including internships, rotational programs, or early-career roles in business operations, consulting, finance, or related fields · Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail · Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills · Ability to learn new systems, business processes, and technical concepts quickly · Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments Preferred Qualifications · Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for learning mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, customer operations, or revenue processes · Ability to build trusted relationships with peers, stakeholders, and leadership while contributing positively to a collaborative team environment · Interest in applying AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve business processes and operational efficiency · Experience working collaboratively across multiple functions within a company · Comfort analyzing data and synthesizing findings into actionable recommendations · Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously 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 $80,200.00 to $106,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. 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. Fo