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Location: West, U.S.

Travel up to 50% required

Meet the Team

As an Account Executive, you will play a critical role on a team that operates like a start-up with unique access to Cisco’s resources, industry leadership, and scale. Incubation is a team within the Global Security Sales Organization (GSSO) that is responsible for selling new Cisco Security products to early adopters and helping prepare for broader global distribution of the product.

Cisco Security is consistently launching innovative products in the market. These new products help Cisco's customers adopt a more effective defense against the world's most sophisticated cyber threats.

The first product you will be responsible for in this role is a network security solution for modern applications called Hypershield. This requires a solid understanding of customer value drivers related to network security for modern platform architectures and the related trends and market landscape. You will apply a hunting mentality to generate pipeline and revenue for this new product with a thoughtful go-to-market strategy for new and existing Cisco Security customers across an assigned territory.

This is a high-profile role that requires you to collaborate closely with other GSSO Sales teams as well as with Product Management, Marketing, Channel, Operations, and Strategy & Planning teams to successfully launch and scale the new product. Success in this cross-functional role requires both focus and flexibility as you quickly experiment with and iterate on ways to achieve your goals. You will be accountable for helping prove product-market fit by working iteratively on the ideal customer profile and go-to-market strategy for achieving the product’s revenue targets.

Your Impact

We are looking for a sales professional with a record of accomplishing success in the following areas:

• Technical seller with basic understanding of networking and security among advanced computational systems like Kubernetes, containers, microservices, graphic and data processing units
• Creating and driving an account-based territory plan that consistently generates sales opportunities for a network security software product, ideally with an annual contract value of $250K+
• Maintaining an organized and data-informed view of the business in terms of target accounts, business plans, sales meetings, pipeline, and forecast
• Building productive collaborations with internal sales teams and channel partners to gain consideration and market share for a new product

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years selling cybersecurity software solutions for cloud-native applications
• 5+ years experience with leading customer conversations with an understanding of business value drivers, platform architectures, and the underlying infrastructure (whether on-prem, cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid)
• 5+ years experience with effectively using listening, presentation, and writing skills to drive action with customers, partners, and internal teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exceptional problem-solving, time-management, and communication skills

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