Meet the Team
In your role, as Strategic Talent Advisor, you'll be part of APJC Sales/GTM Hiring function. You'll partner with hiring leaders across Enterprise, Commercial and other GTM segments to deliver high-quality talent, primarily across Account Executives, Account Managers, Regional Managers and selected Solutions Engineering roles.
Act as a strategic talent advisor, bringing Sales, GTM and Tech Sales market expertise, talent intelligence and data-driven insights to influence hiring decisions. Own and implement sourcing and hiring strategies while delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring leader experience.
Beyond talent delivery, contribute to talent attraction initiatives, coach junior recruiters, drive team priorities and leverage AI/digital tools and AI agents to improve recruiting productivity and effectiveness.
Your Impact
- A trusted talent advisor to hiring leaders, influencing decisions through market intel and data.
- Build and implement sourcing and hiring strategies across Sales/GTM and Technical Sales roles.
- Deliver high-quality, timely and predictable hiring outcomes with strong execution and accountability.
- Contribute beyond individual delivery through team initiatives, knowledge sharing, coaching and talent attraction.
- Leverage and experiment with AI, digital tools and AI agents to automate routine work and improve productivity.
- Solve complex talent challenges through innovative sourcing approaches.
About You:
- Curious, with exceptional Sales, GTM and Tech Sales acumen.
- Trusted and consultative, able to build credibility, challenge constructively and influence senior stakeholders.
- Data savvy, bringing insights and informed perspectives to hiring decisions.
- Collaborative and willing to share knowledge, coach others and contribute beyond individual delivery.
- AI-curious and digitally fluent, continuously experimenting with AI and new ways of working.
- Quality and outcome-focused, with a strong sense of ownership, urgency and accountability.
- Adaptable and solutions oriented, comfortable navigating with ambiguity and able to handle complex talent challenges.
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, with 6+ years of relevant experience in Sales, GTM and/or Technical Sales hiring.
- Strong understanding of AE, AM, RM and/or SE talent market landscapes.
- Shown experience leading end-to-end recruiting and developing sourcing strategies for complex roles.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing and consulting skills.
- Ability to use market intelligence and data to shape hiring decisions.
- Experience hiring across Enterprise and Commercial Sales organizations.
- Strong Sales, GTM and Tech Sales acumen with knowledge of competitive talent markets.
- Experience coaching junior recruiters and contributing to team-wide talent initiatives.
- Strong digital fluency and AI adoption, including use of AI agents to improve day-to-day productivity.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, innovate and operate effectively in a team environment.
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
To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:
- be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
- begin with screening or an interview
- originate from a Cisco email address, and
- be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx
Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.
If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. Cisco bears no responsibility, and cannot be held liable, for any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to recruiting scams.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of recruiting experience
- 6+ years of relevant experience in Sales, GTM, and/or Technical Sales hiring
- Strong understanding of Account Executive, Account Manager, Regional Manager, and/or Solutions Engineer talent markets
- Experience leading end-to-end recruiting for complex roles
- Experience developing sourcing strategies
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and consulting skills
- Ability to use market intelligence and data to shape hiring decisions
- Experience hiring across Enterprise and Commercial Sales organizations
- Strong Sales, GTM, and Technical Sales acumen with knowledge of competitive talent markets
- Experience coaching junior recruiters and contributing to team-wide talent initiatives
- Strong digital fluency and AI adoption, including use of AI agents
- Ability to collaborate, innovate, and operate effectively in a team environment
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.
Cisco Insights
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.
