Jobs at Cisco

Develop and execute executive communications for the Americas Software and Services Sales VP while supporting communications operations. Responsibilities include strategic messaging, thought leadership content, communication channels, social media strategy, templates, toolkits, playbooks, platform management, and alignment with sales, global communications, enablement, and change management teams.

Lead enterprise software and cloud sales across U.S. Federal Government accounts, managing prospecting through contract award and renewal. Build relationships with federal agencies, system integrators, resellers, and prime contractors; develop territory and pipeline plans; deliver demonstrations and executive briefings; and align Cisco and Splunk solutions with cybersecurity, cloud, analytics, and zero-trust requirements. The role requires federal public-sector sales experience, partner teaming, pipeline generation, and 30–40% travel.

Own software features end to end, from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations. Design and maintain scalable distributed systems across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes; troubleshoot reliability and performance issues; participate in code reviews and on-call rotations; collaborate with product and SRE teams; and mentor junior engineers. Preferred experience includes CI/CD, microservices, observability tools, cloud platforms, and AI application technologies such as LLMs, RAG, MCP, and multi-agent frameworks.

Lead complex enterprise technology sales for Cisco’s U.S. Air Force and Space Force accounts. Build executive relationships, orchestrate multi-stakeholder deal cycles, drive secure networking and cross-portfolio growth, manage forecasting and CRM accuracy, negotiate federal contracts, and coordinate sales engineering, legal, finance, services, and partner teams. The role requires strong enterprise networking and cybersecurity knowledge, federal procurement experience, U.S. citizenship, and relocation or residence near Denver with travel to military installations.

Leads the global New Product Introduction enablement program for Splunk and Cisco. Manages NPI Program Managers, governs launch-readiness frameworks, aligns Product Management, Engineering, and go-to-market leadership, and develops technical sales curricula. The role also oversees executive dashboards using Power BI or Tableau, tracks release coverage, manages stage-gate governance, and ensures technical sales teams are prepared across Security, Observability, and Platform product domains.

Own customer onboarding, adoption, and expansion for Cisco Hypershield and Nexus N9300 Smart Switches. Guide controller design, virtualization deployments, segmentation, firewall policy, and production use cases. Build trusted technical relationships with NetOps and NetSecOps stakeholders, lead workshops, resolve adoption blockers with engineering and support, and develop reusable training and reference materials. The role requires deep networking, Linux, virtualization, and customer-facing solution architecture expertise.

Owns cross-functional readiness and enablement programs connecting business goals to technical and process skill development. Identifies skills gaps, creates role-based learning paths and roadmaps, aligns Sales and Customer Experience teams, manages projects from planning through delivery, communicates with stakeholders, measures training performance, and explores AI-driven workflow improvements.

Lead New Product Introduction and technical sales enablement programs for Splunk across platform, security, and observability domains. Govern intake models, launch tiering, and stage-gate processes from Alpha through General Availability. Coordinate Product, Engineering, Technical Marketing, and Field Sales teams to prepare Solutions Engineers and Architects for launches. Develop structured enablement content, use AI tooling to improve workflows, and track readiness metrics and reporting.

Leads New Product Introduction and technical sales enablement programs for Splunk across platform, security, and observability domains. Governs intake and launch-tiering frameworks, coordinates Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Field Sales, and ensures Solutions Engineers and Architects are ready from Alpha through General Availability. Develops structured enablement content, uses AI tooling to improve workflows, tracks program progress, and creates metrics and reporting to support launch readiness and market impact.

Partners with account executives to support public-sector customers through technical discovery, solution design, presentations, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements. Provides expertise across Cisco’s security portfolio, including firewalls, ISE, Secure Access, and Duo. Builds relationships with technical and executive stakeholders, supports territory growth, represents Cisco at events, collaborates with internal and channel teams, and uses AI tools to improve discovery and demo processes.

Provide technical leadership designing, building, and operating production-grade developer platforms to improve software validation and release confidence. Drive platform modernization, large-scale migrations, and cross-team architectural change while contributing hands-on and mentoring senior engineers.

Lead global cloud capacity planning across providers, regions, workloads, and resource types. Build forecasts and scenario models, align demand with supply, manage CSP reservations, control cloud costs with FinOps, and coordinate with sales, engineering, and product teams. Mentor capacity planners and introduce AI-enabled forecasting and reporting tools to improve accuracy, delivery timing, and capacity-gap ownership.

Leads technical sales engagements for Cisco and Splunk solutions across customers and partners. Translates business needs into technical requirements, designs and presents cross-architecture solutions, leads demonstrations, manages sales resources, develops strategic customer plans, and influences executives. Drives demand generation, competitive differentiation, partner enablement, and revenue growth while advising sales teams and aligning stakeholders.

Designs and prototypes AI-driven solutions using Cisco and Splunk technologies for strategic public-sector customers. The role partners with customers and internal product, engineering, sales, and technology teams to accelerate business outcomes, influence technical decisions, and deliver proofs of concept across complex enterprise environments. Responsibilities include architecture, customer engagement, AI implementation, technical storytelling, mentoring other forward-deployed engineers, and sharing field insights to improve products. Travel within the assigned territory is required.

Leads customer-embedded AI solution engineering engagements for defense and intelligence customers. Architects and prototypes Cisco and Splunk solutions across complex enterprise environments, accelerates customer time to value, influences technical decisions, collaborates with product engineering, and mentors other forward-deployed engineers. The role requires advanced AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, distributed architecture, and customer-facing pre-sales or post-sales experience.

Leads Duo’s high-volume B2B demand generation strategy for SMB and lower-mid-market segments. Owns full-funnel acquisition, sales alignment, portfolio digital strategy, ABM integration, budget and agency management, performance reporting, and AI-enabled marketing workflows. Coaches a hands-on marketing team and partners cross-functionally with Sales, SDR, Product Marketing, and Content teams to improve pipeline, bookings, conversion quality, and acquisition efficiency.

Leads global product marketing strategy, positioning, messaging, launches, partner programs, and customer evidence for Cisco’s networking platforms, assurance, and ecosystem portfolio. Manages globally distributed teams and collaborates with product, engineering, sales, field, channel, and executive stakeholders. The role covers cloud control, network management, observability, APIs, marketplaces, developer communities, technology partners, AI-driven operations, and industry-specific messaging.

Leads and scales a customer-embedded Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering organization focused on AI, cloud architectures, enterprise data platforms, and mission-critical systems. Builds and mentors technical teams, partners with C-level customers and Cisco/Splunk leadership, translates deployment insights into product innovation, and delivers prototypes and technical solutions that accelerate adoption, retention, and expansion.

Leads program management for Cisco Networking’s AI transformation and Design Foundations initiatives. Builds roadmaps, milestones, governance, risk and dependency tracking, reporting, and decision-making processes. Partners across design, product, engineering, research, security, AI, and operations teams to scale AI-assisted design practices, establish adoption standards, and move initiatives from experimentation to durable organizational capabilities. Drives measurable outcomes, cross-portfolio alignment, enablement, and change management.

Lead and grow a high-performing software sales team for Splunk/Cisco in the SLED public sector. Deliver and forecast revenue, direct sales activities, build pipeline, coach reps on value-based selling, and negotiate deals to achieve quarterly and annual targets.