The Account Executive will drive sales strategy in Italy for ThousandEyes, managing the full sales cycle and collaborating with various teams to close enterprise agreements and ensure successful deployment.
Meet the team
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even those they don't own. As part of Cisco, ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire technology portfolio, enabling customers to deploy at scale and gain AI-powered assurance insights across Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability solutions. Our team is collaborative, innovative, and passionate about solving complex digital experience challenges. Joining ThousandEyes means being part of a fast-growing, dynamic environment backed by Cisco's global reach and resources.
Your impact
Drive the sales strategy in Italy for ThousandEyes by managing the full sales cycle, from building champions and influencing complex buying committees to closing enterprise-wide agreements. Develop and execute go-to-market plans that identify whitespace opportunities and growth strategies. Partner closely with Cisco Account Managers, Specialists, and Partners to position ThousandEyes as a core component of modernization, Zero Trust, and network observability strategies. Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles with precision and accountability, while collaborating with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure smooth deployment and measurable impact post-sale.
Minimum qualifications
Preferred qualifications
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.
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even those they don't own. As part of Cisco, ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire technology portfolio, enabling customers to deploy at scale and gain AI-powered assurance insights across Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability solutions. Our team is collaborative, innovative, and passionate about solving complex digital experience challenges. Joining ThousandEyes means being part of a fast-growing, dynamic environment backed by Cisco's global reach and resources.
Your impact
Drive the sales strategy in Italy for ThousandEyes by managing the full sales cycle, from building champions and influencing complex buying committees to closing enterprise-wide agreements. Develop and execute go-to-market plans that identify whitespace opportunities and growth strategies. Partner closely with Cisco Account Managers, Specialists, and Partners to position ThousandEyes as a core component of modernization, Zero Trust, and network observability strategies. Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles with precision and accountability, while collaborating with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure smooth deployment and measurable impact post-sale.
Minimum qualifications
- Demonstrated success driving new business growth in complex enterprise environments while exceeding quota.
- Experience selling technical SaaS solutions and operating within matrixed, fast-moving organizations.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to navigate both strategic and technical discussions.
- Comfortable leading deal orchestration across multiple customers, internal teams and external partners.
- Consistent overachievement of quota
Preferred qualifications
- Skilled at building emerging SaaS markets and driving new business growth in evolving technology landscapes.
- Success selling observability solutions to enterprise customers
- Operates effectively in large, matrixed organizations while moving at the pace of a rapidly growing startup
- Embraces a challenger/solution sales approach, leading with insight, identifying blind spots, and pushing customers to think differently about digital assurance.
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.
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