Meet the Team:
Our Solutions Engineering team in Turkey is a high-impact group of technical experts dedicated to bridging the gap between complex Cisco architectures and our customers' most pressing business challenges. We are a collaborative, forward-thinking team that thrives on innovation and strategic problem-solving. We operate as the technical heartbeat of our sales organization, working closely with Engineering, CX, and Marketing to ensure our clients receive world-class, integrated solutions. Joining this team means being part of a vibrant, diverse community that values technical excellence, market leadership, and a shared passion for driving digital transformation across the region.
Your Impact:
As a Solutions Engineer Leader, you will drive the technical sales strategy to align Cisco’s architectures with the evolving needs of our customers. You will lead, coach, and inspire a team of Solutions Engineers to achieve operational excellence and consistent quota attainment.
- Strategic Leadership: Translate high-level corporate goals into actionable, locally relevant sales initiatives that drive market expansion and revenue growth.
- Customer Engagement: Engage with CXOs, Directors, and key IT stakeholders to understand business goals and identify cross-architecture opportunities, dedicating up to 25% of your time to strategic customer and partner interactions.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee technical sales management for the region, ensuring seamless collaboration across business units to deliver client-focused solutions.
- Team Development: Provide regular coaching and foster an environment of innovation, ensuring your team is equipped to handle complex sales cycles and high-value competitive deals.
- Market Intelligence: Leverage installed base insights and market trends to identify new opportunities and refine account planning, ensuring Cisco remains at the forefront of the industry.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of related experience
- Demonstrated experience in a supervisory or leadership capacity.
- Proven track record of managing technical sales initiatives within a regional or country-level scope.
- Experience engaging with high-level stakeholders (CXOs, Directors) and managing complex, long-term sales cycles.
- Turkish speaker is a must.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of Cisco’s architecture portfolio and the competitive landscape in the Turkey market.
- Expertise in driving cross-functional collaboration between Engineering, CX, and Partner organizations.
- Strong analytical skills to translate market intelligence into actionable account strategies.
- Experience in implementing new tools and processes to enhance customer engagement and team productivity.
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 related experience
- Demonstrated experience in a supervisory or leadership capacity
- Proven track record of managing technical sales initiatives within a regional or country-level scope
- Experience engaging with CXOs, Directors, and managing complex, long-term sales cycles
- Turkish speaker
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.
