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Meet the Team

The Cloud + AI Infrastructure Specialized Sales team is Cisco’s global go-to-market engine for data center and AI-driven transformation. We deliver a single scalable strategy with strong local execution, enabling customers to modernize infrastructure and accelerate AI adoption. Our team is composed of highly technical specialists, sales engineers, and strategists who collaborate closely with field sellers, partners, and product teams. We operate in a fast-paced, innovative environment with a strong focus on thought leadership and technical excellence. What’s exciting about this team is our direct influence on shaping Cisco’s AI strategy and helping customers deploy real-world AI solutions at scale.

Your Impact

Drive adoption of Cisco’s AI solutions by serving as a technical subject matter expert across global customer engagements. Partner with sales, engineering, and ecosystem teams to position up-the-stack AI solutions and demonstrate Cisco’s on-prem AI infrastructure capabilities. Design, build, and deliver compelling AI demonstrations and workshops that highlight technical differentiation and customer value. Enable sales teams and partners through education, best practices, and repeatable technical playbooks to accelerate AI opportunities. Act as an external voice for Cisco’s AI portfolio, influencing customers and industry conversations while shaping successful AI outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical presales experience supporting enterprise or strategic customers, including direct engagement with CXO‑level stakeholders

• Proven ability to advise and guide field sales teams through complex, multi‑stakeholder AI and infrastructure opportunities

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering customer-facing technical demonstrations, proofs of concept (POCs), and solution validations

• Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure and software, including on-prem deployments, configuration, and troubleshooting

• Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) with experience building and presenting full‑stack AI applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience positioning solutions competitively, including articulating differentiation, handling objections, and responding to competitive threats in customer engagements

• Proven collaboration with corporate development, product management, and marketing teams to influence product requirements, messaging, and go-to-market strategy

• Experience providing structured feedback on new product introductions, early field trials (EFTs), and pre‑GA solutions based on real customer usage

• Strong executive presence with the ability to present and communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical, business, and executive audiences

• Experience representing a company as a speaker or panelist at industry events, conferences, customer forums, or partner briefings

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 $223,000.00 to $287,200.00 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.

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:

$223,000.00 - $330,300.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$217,200.00 - $315,300.00

* 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.