Solutions Engineering Manager - Cisco Commercial

The application window for this role is expected to close on January 28, 2025. This role is based in Irvine, CA and the successful candidate must be based in this location or plan to relocate.

At Cisco Commercial, our mission is simple: be the first to deliver cutting-edge solutions and the most impactful outcomes for our customers. Representing diverse industries like Healthcare, Retail, and Tech, we work with early adopters who embrace innovation and move fast to achieve their goals. Here, you'll sell the entire Cisco portfolio, empowering businesses to transform through best-in-class networking, security, collaboration, and more.

As a Solutions Engineering Leader for Cisco Commercial in the Orange County region, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead and Inspire: Guide a team of Solutions Engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence to deliver impactful outcomes.
• Drive Strategy: Partner with your sales leader counterpart and account manager team to influence account and business strategies that align with market and industry trends.
• Empower Your Team: Enable your team to thrive by providing the tools, resources, and guidance they need to deliver premium customer outcomes and drive the business forward.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with Connected Architecture teams and channel partners to provide holistic solutions that meet customer needs.
• Create Demand: Collaborate with your team to drive demand through in-person engagements with customers and partners.
• Cultivate Culture: Foster a culture of collaboration, teamwork, innovation, purpose, and courage, ensuring that wellness, self-care, and giving back are prioritized.

You'll join a dynamic region that includes:

• Your direct team of Solutions Engineers
• Sales counterparts and account managers
• Connected Architecture teams
• CX renewal and adoption teams
• Services sellers
• Cisco's BU product and engineering teams
• Channel partners

Together, you'll craft solutions that transform industries and drive innovation.

You're a passionate leader who drives operational excellence while cultivating a positive and collaborative culture. Your skills and experiences include:

• Technical Expertise: Strong background in pre-sales engineering, with experience across security, collaboration, networking, cloud, and AI architectures.
• Leadership and Strategy: Skilled at account planning, resource planning, and translating Cisco's vision into a compelling value proposition for your team and customers.
• Communication: Adept at delivering clear, concise, and inspiring messages, including executive-level communications and presentations.

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of pre-sales engineering experience.
• Cisco certifications and/or industry certifications.
• Strong technical foundation across the Cisco portfolio.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, build relationships, and drive initiatives.
• Exceptional interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying sharp on technical skills and industry trends.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

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).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco