Cisco Solutions Engineering Director 

Switzerland, Zurich 

608549127

You will be experienced in the following areas:

• Technology leadership: technical vision and strategy for customer CTO level priorities.
• Team leadership: Define and drive specific cultures to attract, retain and develop the best solution engineering talent in the industry: coaching, mentoring, career development, and career pathing within and outside the direct team.
• Partnership with sales and technical senior leadership, the team, customer, and extended team (development/business units (BU's), CX and Service Delivery) in daily execution and running the business -" actions and execution," not just words. Acknowledging that the Solution Engineering team is, and acts, as a critical part of our Sales Organization with significant customer interaction and impact.

• Establish and complete efficient processes to drive efficiency and effectiveness to the SE team.
• Optimize organizational structure (always happening) in partnership with Sales Leadership aligned to business priorities to overachieve top and bottom-line fiscal objectives while effectively meeting operational expense targets.
• Ensure execution of all engineering programs relevant to your business.

• Ability to clearly articulate issues, challenges, and gaps technically and from a business perspective.
• Act as “CTO,” partner with the Sales Leadership and Account teams with the ability to clearly articulate the current state, needs, and challenges at the level of technical decision-making at our Customers and Partners.
• Build deep trust based on a relationship with the goal of shared success, right hand, and technical advisor to the Country Manager.

• Fluent in English as well as German and/or French
• Very high EQ; Intensely curious; Continual learner
• In-depth knowledge in the most relevant technology areas, Enterprise and DC networking, Multi-Cloud, and Security.
• Pre-sales solutions engineering leadership experience is required.
• Knowledge of relevant solution sets, product line specifications, performance criteria, and applications.
• In-depth understanding and experience in leading all aspects of sales pre-sales solution engineering processes—detailed understanding of organizational structures, management practices, staff development, and retention.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).