Account Executive - Architecture
Cisco
- Location
- San Francisco California, US
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- Sep 1, 2026
Skills
About this role
The application window is expected to close on: 09/10/2026 Meet the Team Join the global Cisco Spaces Premier hyper-specialist team, a high-impact group focused on driving digital transformation through smart building and IoT solutions. We partner with diverse account teams to help customers unlock additional value from their Cisco infrastructure and deliver differentiated outcomes by differentiating our customer’s employee experience and operational use cases across customer environments. Our culture is built on teamwork, innovation, and a commitment to helping clients navigate the future of hybrid work. It is an exciting time to join as we scale our market presence and redefine how physical spaces interact with digital intelligence.
Your Impact
As a Spaces Account Executive, you will influence strategic decisions within customer buying centers to position Cisco Spaces Premier as a crucial architectural differentiator. Your end-to-end ownership of opportunities in partnership with Cisco account teams will be key to progressing customer engagements forward while aligning with key customer stakeholders and decision makers. You lead technical proof-of-value engagements and implement scaled demonstration environments to showcase solution capabilities and tangible business outcomes. By collaborating closely with engineering and business units, you translate customer feedback into actionable roadmap enhancements that future-proof our architectural strategies. Ultimately, you drive architectural revenue growth and expand market share by aligning go-to-market goals with targeted customer initiatives to ensure long-term success.
Minimum Qualifications
6 years of experience in a related field. Secured and closed deals ranging from $50k to $1M+ within sales cycles spanning 3 to 18 months. Implemented technical proof-of-concept (PoC) and proof-of-value (PoV) engagements using live customer environments to gain additional customer buy-in. Executed account-specific planning by applying competitive intelligence and industry insight to uncover and own well-qualified opportunities Preferred Qualifications Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage IT, Line of Business (LOB), and CXO-level decision-makers. Enthusiastic approach to teamwork, open feedback, and continuous professional improvement. Proven ability to integrate industry insights into account strategies to drive meaningful customer outcomes. Experience collaborating across matrixed organizations, including Solution Engineers and Global Account Managers. Deep familiarity with differentiated location-based outcomes, such as indoor navigation, asset location, desk and room booking, etc, their buyers, and how to effectively position them within relevant verticals. Forecasted architectural-specific revenue and tracked sales pipeline progress using Salesforce.com. 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 $292,100.00 to $384,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations,