Account Executive - Architecture - ThousandEyes

Cisco Systems; Stuttgart; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Cisco ThousandEyes is seeking a senior expert to drive strategic engagements across large-scale networks and digital experience platforms. You will advise stakeholders, craft architecture-aligned proposals, and position Cisco offerings as preferred choices.

You will work with senior buyers, influencing multi-stakeholder deals, driving competitive intelligence, and focusing on security, scalability, and long-term partnerships with Cisco.

Qualifikationen

• Proven ability in proactive business development, including prospecting and driving net-new opportunities.
• Orchestrating and collaborating with cross-functional teams (Channel, SEs, Customer Success, Delivery) in complex sales cycles.
• Excellent time management and prioritization across multiple opportunities and deadlines.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and a team player in a high-growth environment.
• Fluent or Native German language skills.

Aufgaben

• Cultivates expert knowledge of the market/ industry trends and architectural knowledge, advising stakeholders on large-scale, high complexity solutions.
• Influences multi-faceted, highly complex deal cycles, with significant revenue growth and business contributions.
• Expert on an architecture, expands knowledge across related architectures to enhance deal outcomes.
• Leverages competitive intelligence to guide account-specific planning and influence proposal development.
• Engages with senior stakeholders to align customer and Cisco objectives.
• Drives strategic-analysis initiatives with industry analysts to future-proof account strategies.
• Develops and leads discussions on long-term architectural strategies that position Cisco as the preferred solution.
• Identifies and interprets shifts in the competitive landscape to provide strategic recommendations.
• Highlights Cisco's ongoing commitment to innovation and R&D, emphasizing future readiness.
• Serves as a key advisor to senior stakeholders within the buying center, leading technical solutions discussions.

Kenntnisse

Business development

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management

Communication & negotiation

Self-motivation

Team player

German language

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s +8 years or Master’s +6 years or PhD +3 years

Jobbeschreibung

Meet the Team

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

What you’ll do:

• Cultivates expert knowledge of the market/ industry trends and architectural knowledge, advising stakeholders on large-scale, high complexity solutions.

• Influences multi-faceted, highly complex deal cycles, with significant and impactful revenue growth and business contributions.

• Expert on an architecture, expands knowledge across related architectures to enhance deal outcomes.

• Leverages competitive intelligence to guide account-specific planning and influence proposal development, ensuring Cisco's offerings are presented as superior choices.

• Engages with senior stakeholders to align customer and Cisco objectives.

• Drives strategic-analysis initiatives through collaborations with industry analysts to future-proof account strategies

• Develops and leads discussions on long-term architectural strategies that securely position Cisco as the preferred solution due to its competitive advantages in security, scalability, and support.

• Identifies and interprets shifts in the competitive landscape to provide strategic recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.

• Highlights to customers Cisco’s ongoing commitment to innovation and R&D, emphasizing future readiness.

• Serves as a key advisor to relevant senior stakeholders within the buying center, proactively sharing industry trends/ insights and leading technical solutions discussions with a goal towards positioning Cisco architecture as product of choice.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proven ability in proactive business development, including prospecting and driving net-new opportunities.

• Skilled in orchestrating and collaborating with cross-functional teams (Channel, SEs, Customer Success, Delivery) throughout complex sales cycles.

• Excellent time management and prioritization skills; able to manage multiple concurrent opportunities and deadlines.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.

• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and a team player who thrives in a high-growth, collaborative environment.

• Bachelors +8 years related experience, or, Masters +6 years related experience, or, PhD +3 years related experience.

• Fluent or Native German Language Skills

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.

Cisco is an Affimative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.