The application window is expected to close on: June 30, 2025.
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
The Cloud + AI team emphasizes providing robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions that support cloud-native applications and AI workloads. We are the worldwide go-to-market engine that partners across the organization and our business partners to build the sales strategy, activate sellers and technical communities, and accelerate selling every single day.
Your Impact
As a Sales Acceleration Executive, you will build, launch, and incubate sales programs that drive revenue growth for Cisco's Compute and Data Center Networking portfolios. The ideal candidate is is a strategic and proactive thinker who can take in a variety of inputs - from high-level business goals to on-the-ground feedback — and distill them into clear, actionable programs. They are skilled at:
• Syntheses and Clarity: Don't just take direction; they clarify it. Faced with multiple ideas, conflicting priorities, and evolving suggestions, they know how to net out what is essential. They can filter signal from noise.
• Strategic Prioritization: They understand the broader sales strategy and use that context to prioritize initiatives. They're comfortable pushing back when needed and can diplomatically guide stakeholders towards the highest-impact actions.
• Execution with Alignment: Once aligned on direction, they can translate abstract ideas into structured plans, aligning cross-functional teams and ensuring nothing gets lost in translation.
• Strong Communication & Influence: They can listen well, ask the right questions, and summarize input in a way that brings clarity to ambiguity. They're a natural bridge between leadership vision and frontline execution
• Business Acumen: They grasp how different functions (sales, marketing, operations) intersect and design programs that are not just creative, but also practical and scalable.
Minimum Qualifications
• 7 years of technology-related sales or account management experience
• Proven success in building and incubating sales programs that drive revenue growth and enhance sales efficiency
• Skilled in applying opportunity qualification methodologies (MEDDIC preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus
• Strong executive communication skills: verbal, visual, and written
• Proficiency in Cisco's Compute and Data Center Networking portfolio
• Proficient in time management and project management, effectively prioritizing tasks and managing multiple sales initiatives to meet deadlines and achieve sales goals
• Demonstrated capability in managing sales programs across diverse international markets
• Proven ability to collaborate with channel partners to drive sales initiatives, enhance program effectiveness, and expand market reach
• Successful track record of growing revenue for new innovative technology-based solutions
#WeAreCisco
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. Simply put – we power the future.
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.