Meet the Team
Join Cisco's dynamic Account Executive team in Hong Kong! We are a vibrant, diverse group of passionate sales professionals at the forefront of connecting businesses with Cisco's innovative technology solutions. Our collaborative environment encourages creative problem-solving and a shared commitment to customer success. As trusted advisors, we design and deliver comprehensive strategies that align our leading-edge portfolio with our customers' most critical business objectives. Together, we empower organizations across the region to achieve digital transformation and make a tangible impact on their growth and resilience.
Your Impact
As an Account Executive at Cisco, you will play a critical role in driving revenue growth by identifying new sales opportunities and strengthening relationships with existing clients. You will manage a growth target for an assigned territory, utilizing a channel go-to-market distribution model and leveraging available resources for maximum sales penetration within target accounts. With a "hunter" mentality and a strategic approach, you will build lasting partnerships and help organizations achieve their business goals through Cisco solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Drive revenue growth by identifying, qualifying, and closing new business opportunities, while expanding relationships with existing customers.
• Understand client needs and deliver tailored technology solutions to enhance customer satisfaction and foster long-term partnerships.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans to increase Cisco's market visibility and reputation.
• Serve as a vital link between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and teamwork to meet client objectives.
• Provide actionable insights based on customer interactions and market trends to refine and develop effective sales strategies.
Minimum Qualifications
• 5+ years of technology sales experience.
• 3+ years' experience leading large accounts, including regular interaction with decision makers and executive stakeholders, forecasting, quota attainment, sales presentations, and opportunity management across short, mid, and long-term horizons.
• Proficiency in articulating comprehensive solutions and Cisco's strategic vision to customers and executives with the ability to quantify business impact, cultivate successful outcomes in complex sales environments and deepen customer relationships.
Preferred Qualifications
• Proven ability to position end-to-end Cisco strategies and solutions to senior customer executives.
• Demonstrated delivery of business value to both end users and partners.
• Strong technical and business acumen, with the ability to align customer business drivers to Cisco solutions.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Ambitious self-starter with the ability to clearly communicate Cisco's product and business strategies and generate demand to close deals.
• Passion, integrity, trust, leadership, and a track record of successful execution.
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of technology sales experience
- 3+ years' experience leading large accounts, including interaction with decision makers and executive stakeholders, forecasting, quota attainment, sales presentations, and opportunity management
- Proficiency in articulating comprehensive solutions and Cisco's strategic vision to customers and executives, with ability to quantify business impact and deepen customer relationships
- Proven ability to position end-to-end Cisco strategies and solutions to senior customer executives
- Demonstrated delivery of business value to both end users and partners
- Strong technical and business acumen, aligning customer business drivers to Cisco solutions
- Bachelor's Degree
- Ambitious self-starter able to communicate Cisco's product and business strategies and generate demand to close deals
- Passion, integrity, trust, leadership, and a track record of successful execution
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support via an EAP, and access to on-site or virtual health centers indicate robust healthcare offerings. Wellness programs, fitness resources, and specialized services further reinforce coverage depth.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a global minimum for paid parental leave, and unique programs like company-wide recharge days and paid volunteer time expand time-away options. Additional offerings such as Critical Time Off and adoption assistance add flexibility for life events.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Restricted stock units and a discounted employee stock purchase plan are meaningful elements of total compensation. The prominence of equity can materially augment overall pay packages alongside salary and bonuses.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
