1 day ago
Base Salary
$321k - $407k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define cross-architecture technical initiatives and roadmaps in partnership with business unit, solutions engineering, and sales leadership.
- Govern technical strategy and channel field insights from Principal and Distinguished Solutions Engineers into product features and go-to-market roadmaps.
- Lead incubation programs for secure networking and cross-architecture technologies, including demonstrations, proofs of value, and workshops.
- Mentor and provide strategic support to senior technical talent handling ambiguous and high-stakes customer problems.
- Represent Cisco as a technical evangelist and industry visionary with executive customers, research bodies, and advisory groups.
- Manage team headcount, budget, resource allocation, alignment to strategic opportunities, and measurable success metrics.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading highly impactful global technical sales teams.
- Experience leading, motivating, and influencing Principal and Distinguished Solutions Engineers and other expert technologists.
- Deep cybersecurity expertise spanning enterprise, agentic, cloud, and security operations solutions, including SASE, hybrid mesh firewalls, identity, SIEM/SOAR, and AI or agentic security.
- Ability to lead deeply technical consultative discussions and present credibly to industry leaders and large audiences.
- Strategic and analytical ability to improve processes, demonstrate commercial value, and adapt team priorities to changing market conditions.
- Ability to influence and partner across global Sales, Product, Finance, HR, and Engineering organizations.
- BA/BS in Engineering or Computer Science or commensurate experience preferred.
- Executive communication, customer engagement, new product introduction, product adoption, and technical presentation experience preferred.
- Experience architecting, evangelizing, and delivering security teams and solutions across multiple product areas and verticals preferred.
- Hands-on AI and AI security experience preferred.
- Track record of building and scaling solutions engineering programs involving product demonstrations, workshops, and proofs of value preferred.
- Global experience leading complex, competitive technical sales strategy preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $320,600.00 to $407,100.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits; applicable sales-plan ranges may include base pay and sales target incentive compensation.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance are available subject to eligibility.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days are available subject to applicable policies.
- Sales-plan employees may receive performance-based incentive pay in addition to base salary.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all.