Meet the team
Our team is a group of generalists dedicated to building a pipeline for Cisco solutions. We focus on prospecting and qualifying leads to support our account teams, handling low-complexity sales in an agile and structured way. We really value continuous learning, collaboration among colleagues, and keeping up with market trends to ensure our sales cycle is efficient and successful.
Your Impact
In this role, you’ll be the first point of contact for potential customers, identifying their needs through phone, email, and social media. You’ll be a great partner, track every interaction in our CRM, and help set up strategic meetings so our account teams can take the lead on promising opportunities. As you grow, you’ll deepen your knowledge of Cisco’s portfolio and help turn potential leads into real results.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 0- 3 years of experience
- Ability to follow standardized sales processes and tools.
- Basic understanding of lead generation and prospecting techniques.
- Strong curiosity about learning about Cisco solutions and market trends.
- Excellent communication skills for initial customer outreach.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using CRM software like Salesforce.
- Familiarity with email sequencing and pipeline forecasting tools.
- Previous knowledge in a sales or customer-facing support role.
- Ability to analyze data to develop accurate sales forecasts.
- Proactive perspective to engage with peers and internal resources to grow your expertise.
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
- 0-3 years of experience
- Ability to follow standardized sales processes and tools
- Basic understanding of lead generation and prospecting techniques
- Strong curiosity about learning company solutions and market trends
- Excellent communication skills for initial customer outreach
- Experience using CRM software like Salesforce
- Familiarity with email sequencing and pipeline forecasting tools
- Previous sales or customer-facing support experience
- Ability to analyze data to develop accurate sales forecasts
- Proactive engagement with peers and internal resources to grow expertise
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.
