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Your Impact
You will provide guidance and assist Security Sellers and Account teams within the territory in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco security product solutions, setting up demonstrations, explaining features and benefits to customers, and designing and configuring products to address specific customer security needs. You will form relationships with our customer’s key decision-makers, positioning Cisco security solutions aligned accurately to their requirements.
You will:
- Serve as the subject matter expert in Cisco security solutions for large enterprise accounts
- Provide guidance and assist account teams within the territory in building solutions to address specific customer security needs
- Understand business requirements for a customer base and be able to translate them into technical requirements
- Understand and articulate Cisco’s architecture and services within security technologies
- Create, present, and document technical solutions
- Perform in-depth and high-level technical presentations for customers partners and prospects
- Drive identified major account opportunities (i.e. technical consulting, upper-level management presentations, and Cisco technology solutions)
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of technical sales, pre-sales or customer facing technical experience
- 3+ years in Security specialization experience with technologies such as Cloud Security, AI Security, Network Security (IDS/IPS, Firewall and Segmentation), Endpoint Security, Secure Access, Email Security and / or Advanced Malware Protection technologies
- Hands on experience with one or more of these Cisco Security Products (or their competitive equivalent):
Preferred Qualifications:
- History of successful quota achievement.
- Commercial awareness and solid presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with whiteboard discussions that transform customer requirements into security solutions
- Familiarity with large enterprise environments and ability to correlate goals and expand discussions across complex and interconnected user groups.
- Knowledge of public clouds such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
- Knowledge of AI and Large Language Model (LLM) security.
- Ability to demo / POV any of these Cisco Security products (the more the better):
- Experience with administering security for a company (e.g. purchased and deployed Cisco security products as a customer) is a plus.
- Experience with incident response is a plus.
- Experience with APIs and scripting languages a plus.
- Proven track record of supporting technical and high-value IT security projects.
- Highly motivated self-starter who does not need day-to-day management
- BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent is highly preferred
- Travel required, Home office based