Role Summary
As an Account Executive, you will own a defined portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts, driving sustainable revenue and portfolio growth through trusted customer relationships, consultative selling, and strong account orchestration. You will partner across Cisco’s portfolio, Solution Engineering, specialist teams, and partners to understand customer priorities, create demand, and deliver differentiated solutions across secure networking and broader architectures. The role combines strategic account planning, executive engagement, opportunity development, and end-to-end sales ownership.
What You’ll Do
• Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts, including Key and Premier Accounts.
• Build trusted, long-term relationships with C-suite, senior technology leaders, and key decision-makers.
• Develop account strategies based on customer priorities, business outcomes, technology roadmaps, and whitespace opportunities.
• Drive cross-sell, upsell, competitive displacement, and demand creation across Cisco’s portfolio.
• Act as the Account Orchestrator, aligning Solution Engineers, specialists, portfolio teams, partners, and internal stakeholders to address complex customer needs.
• Maintain broad knowledge of Cisco’s portfolio, with strong expertise in secure networking, including switching, wireless, routing, and firewall.
• Lead opportunities through the full sales cycle, from prospecting and qualification through proposal, negotiation, and close.
• Deliver value-based customer engagements that connect Cisco solutions to measurable business outcomes.
• Lead account planning and align customer strategies with Cisco portfolio and architecture priorities.
• Use market trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to identify opportunities and shape account strategy.
• Maintain accurate pipeline and forecast data in Cisco CRM and establish weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales commitments.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve sales execution, remove bottlenecks, and accelerate customer outcomes.
• Champion cross-architecture collaboration to solve complex customer challenges.
Who You Are
• A strategic, customer-focused sales professional with strong enterprise account management and consultative selling experience.
• Comfortable engaging C-suite and senior business and technology leaders.
• Strong at building relationships, creating demand, and identifying growth opportunities within complex accounts.
• Able to orchestrate multiple internal and external stakeholders and influence without authority.
• Strong understanding of secure networking and the ability to connect Cisco’s broader portfolio to customer outcomes.
• Commercially driven with strong skills in negotiation, account planning, pipeline management, forecasting, and competitive positioning.
• Curious about industry trends, market dynamics, and emerging technology.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree + min 10 years + of relevant sales experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience managing strategic or high-value enterprise accounts.
• Proven track record of C-suite engagement and consultative/value-based selling.
• Strong knowledge of switching, wireless, routing, and firewall technologies.
• Experience driving cross-portfolio or cross-architecture sales.
• Track record of success in complex, multi-stakeholder sales environments.
• Strong account planning, forecasting, negotiation, and competitive selling skills.
• Experience orchestrating Solution Engineers, specialists, partners, and cross-functional teams.
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.
Disclaimer
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 10 years of relevant sales experience
- Experience managing strategic or high-value enterprise accounts
- Proven C-suite engagement and consultative or value-based selling experience
- Strong knowledge of switching, wireless, routing, and firewall technologies
- Experience driving cross-portfolio or cross-architecture sales
- Success in complex, multi-stakeholder sales environments
- Strong account planning, forecasting, negotiation, and competitive selling skills
- Experience orchestrating solution engineers, specialists, partners, and cross-functional teams
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 — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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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.
