Inside Account Executive-Architecture

Why You'll Love Cisco:

What You'll Do:

The iAE, is creating, managing and driving opportunities in collaboration with Cisco partners for a designated portfolio of Strategic and Select accounts. Working as part of a highly collaborative sales team alongside Inside Account Executives (iAE) and Solutions Engineers (SE), this role focuses on Cisco’s Networking portfolio while also orchestrating cross-architecture opportunities within the sales Pod.

• Achieve assigned quota targets for the designated Select Private Sector account list
• Master comprehensive expertise in Cisco’s Networking portfolio, including competitive positioning and sales acumen
• Own full responsibility for managing Networking opportunities through the entire sales cycle
• Lead quarterly territory planning in collaboration with the Pod
• Orchestrate cross-architecture opportunities on shared account list with members of the Pod
• Collaborate regularly with partners to attract and close deals and support customer adoption
• Share responsibility for maintaining pipeline excellence across all architectures within the Pod
• Own responsibility of consolidating Pod forecast and adherence to sales operational best practices
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of Cisco’s full product portfolio to deliver the “One Cisco Story”
• Stay updated on industry trends, market dynamics, competitive insights to inform strategy and execution
• Daily apply Cisco’s Tech Stack, Agentic AI, and Sales Plays to scale and optimize customer engagement
• Fulfill a hybrid role with occasional travel for critical customer and partner engagements

Who You'll Work With:

The Global Virtual Sales organization is one of Cisco’s fastest growing sales teams and is the talent engine for Cisco Sales with inclusive and motivated teams that consistently deliver profitable growth. We serve our customer life-cycle through a series of selling motions to drive higher value and an optimal experience from Cisco solutions.

We are a dynamic and international team that brings excitement to the sales floor every day. We connect Cisco customers and partners with solutions that can transform their businesses and change the world. We will provide you with a platform for success including coaching, mentoring, training and on-the-job learning that will strongly support you in your career advancement.

You will discover an innovative, flexible, and award-winning working environment using the latest Cisco technologies to enable and empower you to perform to the very best of your abilities. Our teams promptly adapt to respond to market changes, and we are all highly encouraged to give back to our local communities.

Who You Are:

If you enjoy selling in a dynamic environment, are goal motivated and believe in performance rewards for exceeding annual sales goals through strong collaboration with partners and internal collaborators, we have a place for you.

• You have 3+ years’ B2B selling experience in a similar or adjacent industry.
• You exude a love for IT and ability to tap into technology.
• You have a history of career progression and desire for professional development.
• You've got experience owning the full sales cycle (prospecting, customer demos, negotiating and closing the sale).
• Highly motivated with a “hunting spirit” to develop new opportunities and grow business.
• You are able to demonstrate strong sales achievement i.e., consistent achievement at or above quota, or a history YoY growth in your target market.
• You are passionate about sales and building positive relationships.
• You have the ability to engage in active listening, to identify pain points- both current and future, and propose solutions to improve processes.
• You are a flexible and resilient problem solver; you have a sense of urgency to resolve issues.
• You thrive in a team environment and enjoy sharing ideas.
• You take pride in your positive and upbeat energy.
• Experience using digital selling tools such as Salesforce, and LinkedIn Navigator, are a plus.

We Are Cisco:

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.