Client Executive, Amazon

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Meet the Team

Join Cisco's high-performing sales leadership team to drive innovation and bottom-line growth. You will work within a collaborative environment that values ownership, creativity, and excellence.

The position offers unique exposure to Cisco's executive leadership and global strategy. You will partner with cross-functional teams-including engineering, finance, and supply chain-to architect end-to-end solutions that help customers achieve ambitious transformation goals. Your contributions will have a direct impact on Cisco's leadership in Cloud, AI, and next-generation enterprise networking, setting industry benchmarks for technical excellence and strategic vision.

Your Impact

As the Client Executive for Amazon Corporate IT infrastructure, inclusive of enterprise and data center technologies, AWS Direct Connect, and Amazon LEO, their low-Earth-orbit-satellite internet project you will have accountability for your team's vision, performance, and achievement of ambitious goals. You will drive high-impact relationships with key Amazon stakeholders, including senior leaders and technical decision-makers to ensure alignment and delivery of strategic initiatives. Your leadership will be critical in managing complex customer engagements, spearheading business development efforts, and representing Cisco's full suite of solutions. You will serve as a catalyst for growth, inspiring your team and stakeholders, while strengthening Cisco's presence at the forefront of technology innovation. You will influence product and service roadmap development by providing actionable customer feedback and market insights.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years selling solutions to large enterprise, commercial, service provider, or hyperscale accounts

• Strong executive presence, polish, and political savvy with experience in building strong senior level customer relationships.

• Demonstrated track record managing significant revenue responsibility, while maintaining and driving the operational rigor including ensuring precise sales and supply chain forecasting for predictable business performance.

• Strong leadership skills in coaching or mentoring others.

• Executive Communication & Financial Forecasting Acumen: Articulate complex technical concepts compellingly and concisely to diverse executive audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Visionary Strategic Leadership: Define and execute compelling business plans, balancing immediate demands with long-term growth objectives within the dynamic cloud and AI technology landscape.

• High-Impact Talent & Organizational Development: Cultivate, mentor, and inspire high-performing, matrix-managed technical sales teams and channel partners, leveraging strong executive presence to drive exceptional performance.

• Aggressive Market Expansion & Complex Sales Mastery: Drive significant market share growth and secure new customer opportunities by expertly managing large, intricate sales initiatives across a diverse product portfolio

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.