Join a dynamic technical sales team that partners closely with customers, partners, and account teams to drive business outcomes through Cisco’s technology portfolio. The team serves as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers address business needs, develop strategic solutions, and identify opportunities to expand Cisco’s footprint.
Your ImpactAs a Technical Sales Professional, you will own the technical relationship with customers and partners, providing trusted technical guidance and translating business needs into relevant Cisco solutions. You will collaborate with account and sales teams to shape customer strategy, lead technical engagements, and drive opportunities from technical discovery through solution design and customer success.
Contribute to account planning by identifying opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and competitive displacement, while providing technical insights to refine account strategy.
Build strong relationships with technical and business decision-makers, understand customer environments and pain points, and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Design and present Cisco solutions, using demonstrations and relevant tools to help customers visualize business outcomes and position Cisco’s value against competitors.
Collaborate with account teams, sales resources, business entities, and partners to develop customer strategies, manage virtual support teams, and strengthen customer relationships.
Maintain expertise across Cisco’s portfolio and contribute to demand generation, enablement, and educational activities that increase awareness of Cisco solutions and value.
Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 3+ years of related experience, or PhD with 0 years of related experience.
Experience in a technical sales, solutions engineering, or related customer-facing technical role.
Experience translating customer or partner business requirements into technical solutions.
Experience engaging with technical and business decision-makers and supporting customer or partner opportunities.
Experience working with technology solutions in a complex sales environment.
Strong knowledge of Cisco’s technology portfolio, with specialization in one or more technology domains.
Experience with account planning, solution design, technical demonstrations, cross-selling, upselling, and competitive displacement.
Ability to analyze customer environments, market trends, and competitive activity to influence technical sales strategy.
Experience collaborating with account teams, sales teams, business entities, and external partners.
Strong communication, relationship-building, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
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 experience, Master's degree with 3+ years experience, or PhD with 0 years experience
- Experience in a technical sales, solutions engineering, or related customer-facing technical role
- Experience translating customer or partner business requirements into technical solutions
- Experience engaging with technical and business decision-makers and supporting customer or partner opportunities
- Experience working with technology solutions in a complex sales environment
- Strong knowledge of Cisco's technology portfolio, specialization in one or more technology domains
- Experience with account planning, solution design, technical demonstrations, cross-selling, upselling, and competitive displacement
- Ability to analyze customer environments, market trends, and competitive activity to influence technical sales strategy
- Strong communication, relationship-building, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
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.
