Join our dynamic Solutions Engineer team at Cisco, where you’ll collaborate with experienced professionals passionate about driving technical sales excellence and enhancing customer engagement. Together, we innovate and deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower our customers and partners to achieve their business goals. Be part of a supportive environment that fosters growth, teamwork, and meaningful contributions to Cisco’s success.Your Impact
As a Technical Sales Professional, you will own the Cisco brand with customers and partners by delivering technical solutions that address their business needs. You will collaborate closely with the account team and connected sales teams to ensure customer success, serving as a trusted technical advisor.
- Leverage deep knowledge of Cisco’s portfolio, including specialized and architectural perspectives. Drive penetration through cross-selling and up-selling while displacing competition. Be responsible for the technical relationship with customers and partners.
- Lead engagements with IT and business decision-makers, understand customer environments and market dynamics, and translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Focus on landing opportunities and expanding within accounts. Participate actively in customer strategic planning.
- Provide valuable feedback to Business Executives and sales teams on strategic customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive tactics.
- Lead deals through the technical sales process, design and present solutions based on customer requirements, manage virtual sales support teams, and leverage tools to support deals.
- Increase revenue by converting opportunities to closed deals, displace competitors to grow market share, and expand the customer base quarterly.
- Develop multi-year strategic plans integrating Cisco’s portfolio for customers.
- Deepen expertise by combining domain knowledge with cross-architectural solutions.
- Shape technical strategies for senior executives.
- Align customer business objectives with industry knowledge to create comprehensive solutions.
- Lead demand generation and enablement initiatives.
- Identify latent customer needs and showcase cross-architecture solutions.
- Lead impactful demonstrations emphasizing business outcomes driven by Cisco solutions.
- Use competitive intelligence to differentiate Cisco offerings.
- Mobilize broad stakeholder networks to drive transformative synergies and optimize relationships.
- Direct virtual and extended sales teams toward continuous improvement and oversee educational programs.
- Demonstrate agility by adapting strategies in response to market disruptions.
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience, or an advanced degree (Master's or PhD) with related experience.
- Proficiency in Cisco networking technologies and solutions, including SD-WAN, MPLS, LAN, Cloud, Unified Communications (UC), and Security.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms and services.
- Expertise in Cisco’s cloud portfolio to design scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.
- Hands-on experience with network automation tools to streamline deployment, management, and operational efficiency of network and collaboration solutions.
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 8 or more years of related experience, or an advanced degree with related experience
- Proficiency in Cisco networking technologies and solutions, including SD-WAN, MPLS, LAN, Cloud, Unified Communications, and Security
- Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms and services
- Expertise in Cisco cloud portfolio and scalable, secure, cost-effective architecture design
- Hands-on experience with network automation tools for deployment, management, and operational efficiency
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.
