7 days ago
Base Salary
$209k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advise SLED account teams and customers as a trusted technical expert across Cisco solutions and architectures.
- Lead strategic customer engagements including Tech Days, executive discussions, briefings, innovation pilots, and early field trials.
- Develop executive relationships and influence strategic technical direction, modernization opportunities, and competitive wins.
- Represent customer feedback through advisory boards and tiger teams and create feedback loops into product development.
- Drive operation campaigns, initiatives, pipeline growth, portfolio growth, and franchise wins.
- Invest in technical, certification, market, competitive, executive, and professional development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience, including significant pre-sales Solutions Engineer experience.
- Deep knowledge of Cisco Route/Switch and Security portfolios and competitive offerings.
- Proven success leading strategic multi-architecture sales cycles, competitive takeouts, franchise wins, and innovation initiatives.
- CCNP or a comparable competitive certification required.
- CCIE or equivalent expert-level competitive certification strongly preferred.
- Market expertise in state and local government, K–12 or higher education, and healthcare is preferred.
- Ability to travel 50–75% of the time.
- Must live in or relocate to an eligible state in the operation: IL, CO, WA, OR, UT, ID, MT, KS, NE, MN, IA, MO, or WI.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses or sales-plan incentive compensation.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
- Preferred locations are Chicago, Denver, and Seattle; the role requires 50–75% travel.
- Application window is expected to close on 11/05/2026.
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.