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Meet The Team

As a Operations Level Solutions Engineer for the US Commercial Tri State Operation, you will be focused on being a pre-sales field technical customer facing engineer influencing the most strategic and innovative areas of our business. You will spend your time with customers while collaborating with Account Teams, Connected Teams, Partners, and BEs. This is a technical leadership role and is focused on delivering business outcomes through bringing high customer intimacy, thought leadership, executive engagement, and technical excellence.

Your Impact

* Technical, trusted advisor to Commercial Account Teams and Customers

* Bring thought leadership and deep knowledge across our solutions and architectures applying it across all verticals

* Participate and lead high impact customer engagements through Tech Days, Connect, Cisco Experience Center Briefings, Executive Discussions, EFT opportunities, Stay Ready and Cisco Live and other similar events

* Champion culture of learning, coaching, and technical excellence

* Develop Executive Relationships and Champions with our most strategic Accounts through trust, business acumen, and technical strategies

* Drives focus on full lifecycle and adoption of our solutions partnering with our Services Sellers to position CX services offerings

* Participate in any relevant advisory boards, tiger teams to represent Commercial customer feedback and needs, shaping the future of our portfolio and offerings

* Help create campaigns and initiatives for the Operation based on the needs of the business and growth and drive existing and new go-to-market strategies for the SE community

* Invest in your personal development, such as certifications, self study, soft skills, executive coaching, market trend analysis, competitive training, and other relevant training to strengthen and sharpen your skills.

Minimum Qualifications

* 8+ years industry experience, significant experience as pre-sales solutions engineer

* Deep knowledge across Cisco portfolio and competitive offerings

* Proven track record leading strategic multi-architecture sales cycles, competitive take-outs, franchise wins, and driving innovation embodying the US Commercial "First and Most" mindset Along with the Commercial East focus areas of Growth, Customer, and Team

* Ability to travel 50% of the time across the Operation, to customer briefings, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

* Operation/Area Support from Senior Leadership

* CCNP Certified (CCIE/CCDE Preferred)

* Architecture messaging and enablement for Commercial audiences

\#WeAreCisco

\#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $220,300.00 to $277,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

+ 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

+ 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

+ Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

+ Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

+ 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

+ Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

+ Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$220,300.00 - $319,200.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$210,000.00 - $304,300.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.