Executive Assistant Vp Americas Security Sales jobs at Cisco in United States, Atlanta

The application window is expected to close by October 10, 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

As an Account Manager at Cisco, you’ll manage a growth target for an assigned territory using a channel go to market distribution model. You will target market opportunities by segment and use available resources to aggressively pursue opportunities while also showing sales penetration within a target account list of accounts. You'll have a "hunter" mentality, while at the same time exhibiting strategic sales savvy and building strong relationships with customers. You will sell in a matrixed environment that requires a customer-first approach all the while establishing an outcome where everybody wins.

• You will play a pivotal role in growing the company's revenue by identifying new sales opportunities and expanding relationships with existing clients.
• By understanding client needs and delivering tailored solutions, you will improve customer satisfaction and foster long-term partnerships.
• Through strategic account planning and execution, you will help improve Cisco's visibility and reputation in the market.
• You will serve as a vital link between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration to meet client objectives.
• By providing insights from customer interactions and market trends, you will contribute to the development and refinement of effective sales strategies.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience selling, prospecting and growing an account base.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent track rack record of success leading a large territory, demand generation, partner development, strategic account planning, forecasting, quota attainment, communicating business transformational solutions via sales presentations, short-term, mid-term, and long-term opportunity management.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have the ability to deliver business value to both End Users and Partners.
• You have strong technical and business knowledge with complimentary skills to understand the customers’ business drivers and then align them to Cisco solutions.
• You demonstrate the necessary skills to negotiate issues with peers, partners and customers using a Win/Win philosophy.
• You're an ambitious self-starter with ability to articulate Cisco product and business strategies and create the demand to complete the deal.
• You possess the following traits: passion, integrity, trust, leadership, discipline and execution.

Owns end-customer relationships, carries legal quota, and is responsible for the growth of a fixed set of named accounts.

• Develop/Seek opportunities through sales & marketing activities to final customers and with partners to drive technology penetration in your account list.
• Manage a large territory being able to prioritize and work with partners to execute a collaborative territory coverage plan.
• Collaborate with aligned sales roles to close the deals once an opportunity is identified.
• Will be responsible for forecasting accuracy and updating and MEDDPICC for deal qualification
• Uses new technologies and social selling practices to improve the customer and partner's experience and accelerate Cisco's business including Cisco AI Sales tools.
• Develops territory plans and campaigns towards selected market opportunities to cover the assigned territory.
• Prioritizes internal and external resources & implements to meet or exceed sales quota.
• Will bring new ideas to the sales teams for building new business and crafting additional pipelines.

• 2-3 years of channel experience or similar Business-to-business quota-carrying sales. Software (sales, adoption/renewal) or cyber security experience desired.
• Cisco sales, product & technical certifications preferred.
• Consistent achievement of sales quotas.
• Consistent achievement of forecasted revenue targets. (ie. achieving consistent forecast accuracy)

BS/BA or equivalent

The application window is expected to close on: 8/15/2025

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

As a Networking Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal pre-sales technical role, working directly with key decision-makers and internal partners to showcase Cisco Networking products and solutions. You will help customers achieve their business outcomes by designing and configuring secure network architectures, leading demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) labs, and providing expert guidance on advanced observability, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence Cisco’s customer strategies and contribute to their digital transformation.

• Partner with Account Executives to drive business and growth opportunities
• Design and configure secure networking solutions (Routing, Switching, Wireless,
• Automation) to meet specific customer requirements
• Lead RFP responses, product demonstrations, and Proof-of-Concept labs
• Maintain deep product and solution knowledge, including competitive positioning
• Monitor market and industry trends to anticipate and address customer needs

• 5 years demonstrated ability in sizing and designing Routing, Wireless, and Switching deployments across Cloud, On-Prem, and Hybrid environments
• Extensive knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP , BGP , OSPF, EIGRP , LISP) and network segmentation technologies (e.g., VRF, MPLS, ZeroTrust, SDA, 802.1x, SGT, Adaptive Policy)
• Pre-sales technical experience supporting enterprise customers
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 35% as needed

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable with audiences of all sizes
• Familiarity with competitive networking products (e.g., HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet)
• Cisco and non-Cisco certifications (e.g., CCIE, CCDE, DevNet, AWS, Google, Terraform)
• Experience with API integration and network programmability
• Strong critical thinking skills and customer-focused attitude, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

The application window is expected to close on. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key stakeholders at Comcast and across Cisco globally.
• Lead the orchestration of long-term strategic initiatives and multi-year projects aligned with revenue, infrastructure, services, and channel goals.
• Develop strategies to maximize business value, lead robust account planning, and drive innovation.
• Oversee the development and execution of unified strategies to grow wallet share, improve margins, and increase pipeline and bookings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Cisco teams to achieve Comcast’s strategic objectives.
• Coordinate volume and pricing strategies for Cisco products and services within the Comcast account.
• Create short- and long-term plans informed by research and market trends.
• Provide professional leadership and coordinate all Cisco client-facing resources for Comcast.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive background in product, service, and channel sales, as well as service delivery.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex sales teams at key accounts, including strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• 5+ years of experience in long-term resource, technology, and account planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Exceptional team leadership and collaboration skills in a diverse, cross-functional environment.
• Strong ability to build and maintain executive-level relationships.
• Proven record of working closely with engineering and development teams to align customer requirements with deliverables.
• Successful history of driving innovation and solving complex customer challenges.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to analyze market trends and create actionable plans.

• Serve as the technical authority for AI/ML security assurance, collaborating with engineering, product, and architecture teams to ensure secure, compliant delivery of systems and services.
• Define, implement, and maintain security standards for GenAI, ML pipelines, data usage, and AI applications across hybrid and cloud environments.
• Conduct threat modeling, adversarial risk assessments, and AI-specific threat surface analysis on LLMs, data pipelines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Drive secure-by-design practices throughout the AI development lifecycle, embedding security gates and validations.
• Lead AI-specific security testing, including red teaming, prompt injection defenses, RAG hardening, model sandboxing, and privacy-preserving techniques.

• +8 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity and GenAI security, including demonstrated work with prompt injection mitigation, adversarial robustness, and implementing AI governance controls.
• At least 5 years of experience working with AI ecosystem stacks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or LangChain), including securing AI/ML training pipelines and deployment workflows in production environments.
• Proficiency in Python, with a minimum of 3 years using Jupyter and proven experience in securing REST APIs and microservices in enterprise-scale applications.
• Expert at cloud security architectures across AWS, Azure, orGCP, and AI PaaS offerings like AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex AI.
• Minimum 3 years of experience conducting automated threat modeling and red teaming activities specifically for AI/ML systems.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, GDPR) and their implications for AI data handling.
• Knowledge of AI supply chain risks, synthetic data verification, and secure model provenance.
• Background in AI-specific security middleware, firewalls, or policy layers for model-based systems.
• Published work, patents, or thought leadership in AI security or trustworthy AI.
• Participation in AI/ML security working groups or standards bodies (e.g., OWASP AI, NIST, IEEE).
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) with mature software assurance programs.

The application window is expected to close on September 15, 2025.Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

In this role, you will drive the develop or a new workload platform leveraging Kubernetes, Cilium and Kubevirt with a focus on ease of use. You’ll collaborate with industry leading internal Cisco teams, like Isovalent, with the goal of making our platform’s network seamlessly co-exist with customer’s existing network topology. You’ll also partner with our AI Software & Platform team to leverage agentic AI for running playbook/automation to simplify migration of workloads and integrations from existing workload platforms to our platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years or Master’s degree with 6+ years or PhD with 3+ years of platform software development experience to including programming with GoLang or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience using Kubernetes for automating, scaling and managing workload applications.
• Demonstrated experience with open-source operating systems such as Linux
• Demonstrate experience using database management tools such as SQL
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with remote procecure calls (RPCs) like gRPC, Thrift and JSON RPC
• Experience with tools such as Cilium, Kubevirt, KVM and eBPF
• Experience with VMware vSphere and NSX
• Experience with platforms like OpenShift
• Experience with open-source tools like OpenStack