What You’ll DoYou will build strong relationships with customers, CX teams, architects, and engineers to help achieve their business goals. Your responsibilities include:
- Delivering Accelerators and ATX (Ask-the-Experts) sessions to a diverse set of customers, ensuring timely engagement and measurable business outcomes.
- Demonstrating your technical expertise to proactively identify and manage risks that could impact successful delivery.
- Providing lifecycle feedback to CX Product Management and CX Success Programs teams.
- Collaborating with Account teams, CX, and Partners to improve customer adoption, address product concerns, and drive incremental growth.
- Supporting the CX offer strategy and roadmap to align with sales specialists, delivery teams, and customer needs.
Who You AreYou are a technically proficient professional with practical experience in Service Provider technologies and a deep understanding of Cisco’s solutions. You excel at explaining complex technical concepts and aligning these solutions with customer needs. Your skills include:
- Communicating and demonstrating the value of Cisco technologies to encourage daily customer engagement.
- Connecting customer use cases with Cisco solutions to accelerate business value.
- Using lab environments to overcome technical barriers across the customer lifecycle.
- Understanding the broader business landscape, including strategic priorities and competitor markets.
- Strong written, verbal, and listening skills that foster collaboration with both internal teams and customers at all levels.
Minimum Technical Requirements:
We expect the CSS to have an excellent understanding of Cisco and Industry solution across one or more of the following:
- Transport Core across large organization (SP, Finance, Public Sector, Enterprise)
- Automation Environment (Cisco and Multi-vendor)
- Core MPLS or Metro (Cisco XR or Industry Standard)
- Controllers and Software Lifecycle
- Automation Software for Networking
- Software Integration API across multivendor Solution
Required Experience:
- BS/BA (EE/CS preferred) or equivalent experience.
- Cisco Certifications (CCNP / CCDP / CCIE or equivalent) are strongly preferred.
- Proven experience in technical consulting or direct customer interaction with an understanding of industry methodologies.
- Awareness of technology and market trends.
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