Leader, Solutions Engineer (U.S. Commercial)

The application window is expected to close on : 10 / 28 / 25

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

Travel required, Home office based

Location : Chicago, IL or Kansas City, MO (must be close to a major airport), territory is Central U.S.

Meet the Team

We have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team as a Solutions Engineering Leader within our Global Security Sales Organization! We are searching for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial-minded technical sales leader who has a passion for delivering elite technology and services to protect our customers using capabilities delivered from the network, endpoint, and SaaS offerings for any cloud. This is an ideal position for someone who has validated leadership skills and related industry and technical expertise, to drive success with their team and regional peers. This role requires an ambitious, self-starter with the ability to build executive relationships, develop and execute sales strategies, articulate Cisco's business value and technical capabilities, and drive the activities that makes deals happen.

Your Impact

In this role as a Security Solutions Engineering Leader, you will work closely with customers, partners, and regional leaders in the US Commercial, to develop and execute sales strategies that drive growth within the region. As part of the leadership team, you will partner with Security Sales Leadership and demonstrate both technical and business excellence, to meet revenue goals in the region.

As a technical leader, you will lead and mentor a highly motivated sales engineering team that has a passion to bring transformative technology to life for our customers and partners. You and your team will develop solutions using the breadth of our Cisco security portfolio for any environment using our Identity, Cloud, Network, and XDR capabilities. You are responsible for the recruitment and development of your team, as well as performance management and development of them, to position Cisco's security solutions effectively against competitive offerings and be trusted advisors for our customers and cross-functional teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ Years of experience as a pre-sales engineer
• 3+ Years of pre-sales engineering leadership or equivalent cyber security pre-sales experience
• Demonstrated experience aligning go-to-market initiatives to trends in the security industry

Preferred Qualifications

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.