North Carolina, United States
Remote only
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
The Workplace Engineering team is Cisco's specialist SE organization for the workplace buying center, driving "One Cisco" Future-Proofed Workplace (FPW) outcomes — delivering integrated networking, devices, Cisco Spaces, and Splunk to non-IT buyers across Corporate Real Estate, Facilities, Sustainability (ESG), HR, and the broader workplace function. We open net-new wallet for Cisco by meeting customers where traditional IT-led motions don't reach, and we scale through a non-traditional partner ecosystem of MEP engineers, architects, designers, and engineering alliances. Together, this is a globally distributed team spanning AMER, EMEA, and APJ, operating at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, product/BE influence, and ecosystem development. We change the world — and we're looking for a leader who believes it too.
Your Impact
Our Global Specialist Solutions Engineering team is looking for a dynamic and experienced leader. You will own the performance, development, and strategic direction of a high-performing, globally distributed SE organization. You will be empowered to lead, plan, report, and drive engagement and prioritization for the team, drive sales team support, and drive projects across the SE organization. This role also assists all Solutions Engineering, Sales, and BU leadership in maintaining the overall direction, productivity, and effectiveness across Spaces, Networking, Splunk, Collaboration, and the energy/smart-building portfolio. You will build strong executive relationships with internal team members, customers, partners and sales leadership.
Responsibilities Include:
Minimum Qualifications
You love interacting with customers, peers in leadership, partners, sellers, and engineers of all kinds. You enjoy defining and driving the strategy for innovative technology and teams. You seek out and tackle complex, high-impact problems. You can lead by example as well as by influence, and always from the front. You can engage effectively with leaders at all levels within Cisco Sales, Engineering, Product, and Customer Experience orgs. You are passionate about the customer experience and excited about new technology. You are a true teammate and love to learn.
Preferred Qualifications
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.
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.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
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:
$303,100.00 - $440,000.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$284,700.00 - $420,000.00* 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.
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