8 days ago
Base Salary
$209k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical relationships with customers and partners and serve as a trusted technical advisor.
- Translate customer and partner business needs into technical requirements and cross-architecture Cisco solutions.
- Develop multi-year customer strategies and integrate Cisco’s portfolio across architectures.
- Lead technical sales engagements, demonstrations, presentations, and deal progression.
- Shape senior executives’ technical strategies and identify latent customer needs.
- Lead demand-generation and enablement initiatives and coordinate virtual and extended sales teams.
- Apply competitive intelligence to differentiate Cisco solutions and increase revenue, market share, and customer acquisition.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, or selling enterprise IT infrastructure.
- CCNP-level certification or equivalent, or the ability to earn it within 12 months of joining.
- Ability to explain sophisticated technology to technical and business audiences.
- Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area with willingness to attend local customer meetings and travel occasionally elsewhere in Texas and out of state.
- Preferred: pre-sales solutions engineering experience or experience owning customer-side technology decisions.
- Preferred: CCIE or equivalent expert-level certification.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Preferred: hands-on experience across multiple architectures, including networking, security, data center, observability, and teamwork.
- Preferred: channel-partner experience and a consultative approach to customer problem solving.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants, subject to plan terms.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday and wellness time, vacation or flexible time off depending on classification, sick time, and family emergency leave.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per calendar year.
- Sales-plan employees may receive performance-based incentive pay in addition to base salary.
- The role is based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with mostly local customer meetings and occasional travel elsewhere in Texas and out of state.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.