Inside Account Executive - Architecture

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The Global Virtual Sales organization is one of Cisco's fastest growing sales teams and is the talent engine for Cisco Sales with diverse 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 efficient experience from Cisco solutions.

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

This region will support the North Texas and Oklahoma territories for our High Spend (Mid-Strategic) team, covering our networking products alongside our portfolio. This is a remote position, highly preferred to seek someone who is in territory.

You will build direct relationships with customers, will work closely with and the selected channel partners to enhance new sales opportunities and renewals within your territory. You will manage all aspects of sales while using innovative technologies to remotely collaborate with customers and employ new sales models (cloud, services & software) to help customers increase their revenue.

• You will be selling the entire Cisco portfolio to our mid-market customers to help make their businesses run better and smarter

• You will accurately forecast your monthly, quarterly and annual revenue streams; driving growth

• You'll drive new business as well as cultivate your account base. We value a consultative sales approach focuses on driving business outcomes.

• 2+ years' B2B selling experience in a similar or adjacent industry

• Experience owning the full sales cycle (prospecting, customer demos, negotiating and closing the sale).

• Demonstrated strong sales achievement i.e.. consistent achievement at or above quota, or a history YoY growth in your target market.

Preferred Qualifications

• You are passionate about sales and building positive relationships.

• You have a history of career progression and desire for professional development

• You possess a strong business sense and can effectively value proposition to your customer base. Most meaningfully you can engage in active listening, to identify customer challenges - both current and future, and propose solutions to improve their process.

• Highly motivated with a "hunting spirit" to develop new opportunities and grow business

• You are a flexible and resilient problem solver; our strongest teammates have a bias for urgency to resolve issues.

• You thrive in a team environment and enjoy sharing new insights and innovations.

• Experience using digital selling tools such as Salesforce, ISDC.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.