Meet the Team
Cisco is seeking a dynamic, high-impact senior leader to join our Portfolio Strategy team. In this influential role, you will work directly with C-suite executives—both within Cisco and at our top 500 customer organizations—to deliver the One Cisco message. You will serve as a critical bridge between Cisco’s visionary strategy and its technical execution, ensuring our largest, most strategic clients clearly understand how Cisco’s portfolio can deliver on their business outcomes.
Your Impact:
1. Executive Engagement:Partner directly with Cisco’s C-suite, Office of the CEO, the sales and partner leaders, and their direct reports to drive One Cisco positioning and technical advisory focused on delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
2. Team Collaboration:Operate as a senior member of the Field CTO team, contributing expertise and working collaboratively to engage with Cisco’s top 500 customers.
3. Cross-Functional Partnership:Collaborate closely with Product General Managers, senior sales leaders, and other key stakeholders to identify, shape, and help close high-value opportunities.
4. Strategic Messaging Execution:Deliver and tailor the One Cisco story—crafted by Cisco’s CPO—to executive stakeholders at customer organizations, focusing on the practical, technical, and implementation details that are aligned to our strategic vision.
5. Technical Depth & Influence:Operate at both the strategic and technical levels: articulate technology roadmaps, solution architectures, and implementation paths to customer executives.
6. Customer Advocacy:Serve as a trusted advisor to customer executives, helping them translate Cisco’s vision into actionable strategies for their unique business and technical needs.
Minimum Qualifications:
7. Proven track record of executive-level engagement and influence, especially with C-suite customers in large, complex organizations.
8. Strong ability to work collaboratively as part of a highly experienced technical team.
9. Deep understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, digital transformation, and the ability to translate high-level vision into actionable technical strategies.
10. Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to deliver complex technical concepts to senior, non-technical audiences.
11. Ability to travel as required for key customer and executive meetings.