Meet the Team
Join a collaborative and high-performing team focused on driving success through partner relationships. As a Partner Account Executive, you will build trust, credibility, and relevance with partner sales teams, empowering them to become active advocates of our solutions.
Our team culture emphasizes teamwork, continuous learning, and supporting each other to exceed our goals.
Your Impact
You will play a meaningful role in strengthening Cisco’s ThousandEyes Partner ecosystem by enabling Partners to evolve their capabilities, accelerate innovation, and deliver differentiated customer outcomes. You will work closely with regional sales leaders to align strategies and implement go-to-market plans, ensuring mutual growth and shared success.
Through strategic relationship management and business planning, you will help drive revenue growth, improve Partner performance, and expand Cisco’s market presence.
In this role, you will:
Develop and maintain positive relationships with partner principals and sales teams, inspiring trust and acting as a resource for training and mentorship.
Collaborate with internal sales teams and regional leaders to develop and implement effective go-to-market strategies.
Support partners in business transformation by helping them create unique value propositions, refine sales processes, and increase adoption of our solutions.
Operate with a high level of business acumen, adaptability, and integrity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Balance team collaboration with independent initiative, working effectively with diverse individuals and groups to achieve shared objectives.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of proven experience, or Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience
Experience handling strategic Partner, channel, alliance, or enterprise relationships
Experience developing and executing business plans, GTM strategies, and growth initiatives
Experience collaborating cross-functionally across sales, technical, and business teams
Excellent communication, negotiation, and customer management skills
Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of sales and channel dynamics, with previous experience in commercial, enterprise, or public sector account management
Good understanding of SaaS, cloud technologies, and modern software architectures
Strong ability to build trust and credibility with partner executives and sales teams, and to serve as a mentor and resource in positioning solutions to customers
Excellent listening, communication, and influence skills with a track record of building strong executive relationships
Strategic problem solver with proven track record to collaborate, drive initiatives, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment
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
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of proven experience, or Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience
- Experience handling strategic partner, channel, alliance, or enterprise relationships
- Experience developing and executing business plans, go-to-market strategies, and growth initiatives
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally across sales, technical, and business teams
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and customer management skills
- Understanding of sales and channel dynamics, with previous experience in commercial, enterprise, or public sector account management
- Good understanding of SaaS, cloud technologies, and modern software architectures
- Strong ability to build trust and credibility with partner executives and sales teams; serve as mentor and resource
- Excellent listening, communication, and influence skills with a track record of building strong executive relationships
- Strategic problem solver with proven track record to collaborate, drive initiatives, and deliver results
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 robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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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.
