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Meet the Team

Step into a pivotal leadership role in a growing and dynamic, results-driven sales leadership team at Cisco, dedicated to delivering innovation and driving bottom line growth.

The Americas Service Provider Team is at the forefront of innovation, uniquely positioned to deliver breakthrough solutions that are shaping the future of AI in the marketplace. You will join a select collective of high-performing professionals who thrive on solving the most complex challenges for some of the largest and most strategic service provider customers in the Americas. Our collaborative environment values ownership, creativity, and the pursuit of excellence across every engagement.

This role offers unparalleled exposure to Cisco’s executive leadership, including those driving our global AI strategy. You’ll collaborate with top minds in engineering, product development, supply chain, finance, legal and business operations, ensuring you’re always at the cutting edge of industry trends and technological advancements. Within this dynamic environment, you will help architect and deliver end-to-end solutions—enabling our customers to achieve their ambitious transformation goals. As part of a team that sets the industry benchmark for technical excellence and strategic vision, your contributions will have a direct and lasting impact on Cisco’s leadership in Cloud, AI and next-generation networking.

Your Impact

As a Client Director for Google, you will be responsible for cultivating and managing important relationships with Google stakeholders. You will help drive the successful execution of key initiatives, collaborating closely with internal teams and customer contacts. Your focus will be on supporting business development, managing customer engagements, and representing Cisco's advanced solutions. You will play a key role in strengthening Cisco's relationship with Google, providing valuable feedback and insights to internal teams to help align our offerings with customer needs.

Minimum Qualifications

3+ years of experience in sales or account management within the Cloud, AI, or technology sector.

Experience managing customer relationships and delivering results against defined targets.

Experience working in complex organizations and collaborating across teams.

Understanding of the cloud technology landscape, customer challenges, and industry trends.

Experience communicating technical concepts effectively to business and technical stakeholders.

Demonstrated experience with executive-level selling in complex customer engagements, effectively bridging business acumen with technical depth.

Preferred Qualifications

Strategic Account Support & Complex Sales Mastery: Assist in the development and execution of account growth plans, contributing insights/support to drive business objectives within the dynamic cloud and AI technology sector and secure new customer opportunities by expertly managing large, intricate sales initiatives across a diverse product portfolio.

Collaborative Solution Development: Work closely with technical teams and internal stakeholders to address customer needs and help shape solutions that deliver meaningful business value.

Technical-Business Integration & Product Influence: Deeply collaborate with engineering and technical stakeholders to strategically influence product roadmaps and optimize customer outcomes.

Forecasting & Account Planning Acumen: Support accurate forecasting and account planning activities, contributing to effective business operations and predictable performance.

Executive Communication & Financial Forecasting Acumen: Articulate complex technical concepts compellingly and concisely to diverse executive audiences, ensuring precise sales and supply chain forecasting for predictable business performance.

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 $390,000.00 to $491,400.00 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:

$390,000.00 - $565,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$380,000.00 - $550,600.00

* 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.