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This remote role is open to candidates in the United States, no relocation benefits are available.
Meet the Team Join a collaborative and high-performing team focused on driving success through distributor relationships. As a Partner Account Executive, you will build trust, credibility, and relevance with distributor and partner sales teams, empowering them to become active advocates of our solutions. You will work closely with regional sales leaders to align strategies and execute go-to-market plans, ensuring mutual growth and shared success. Our team culture emphasizes teamwork, continuous learning, and supporting each other to exceed our goals.
Your Impact As a Partner Account Executive, you will leverage your experience in partner-centric sales and channel dynamics to establish yourself as a trusted advisor. By mentoring and enabling partner account managers and our distribution teams, you will help them position and sell our solutions in customer-facing engagements. You will work strategically to align partner and internal sales teams, driving joint initiatives and maximizing business opportunities.
In This Role, You Will
Minimum Qualifications
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.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $177,800.00 to $232,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan. For Quota-based Incentive Pay, Cisco Typically Pays As Follows
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area $196,800.00 - $297,200.00
Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $187,800.00 - $283,700.00
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