Account Executive, Ai

**Meet the Team**

The Cloud and AI Infrastructure team is a sales team at the cutting edge, helping customers change their business using Cisco technology in the data centre and on cloud. The team works with customers, partners and team members to take customer problems and turn them into business advantage.

**Your Impact**
We are seeking a dynamic Account Executive - AI Infrastructure to join our strategic sales team. As an Account Executive, you will lead sales opportunities, discover new opportunities and work closely with our customers and partners in setting a strategic vision for their business. You will understand our customers specific needs and align our sales priorities to those needs. This role requires a deep understanding of Data Centre technology including AI related Infrastructure and have experience in selling data centre infrastructure in a highly competitive environment.

You will develop and execute a business development strategy to deliver strong business growth across the business, you will have amazing relationships with technology leaders in the industry and your customers, and you will champion Cisco as an AI Infrastructure leader.

**Minimum Qualifications**
- 7+ years of technology-related sales or account management experience with a focus on business development and new technology incubation.
- Experience growing revenue for new innovative technology-based solutions.
- Experience in understanding business challenges when deploying data centre infrastructure at scale, including AI Infrastructure.
- Proven track record of working cross-functionally with Sales, Presales and Marketing to develop and launch new data centre infrastructure offers.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience working within technology incubate teams to grow market share at an accelerated rate
- Sales Experience associated with deep learning, data science and AI Infrastructure.
- Sales experience with Data Centre relevant technology, such as storage, network, platform, server, security and cloud.

**We Are Cisco**

With Cisco, you're not just embracing the future - you're helping create it. We are focused on integrating AI into our solutions to transform collaboration, security, networking, observability, and more. We are innovating ethical AI products and infrastructure that enable our customers to stay ahead of cyberattacks, predict and prevent network outages, and make team meetings more productive. Our extensive data sets and broad customer reach means limitless possibilities for you to build impactful AI solutions that solve a wide array of real-world problems. Join us at Cisco where you will innovate with top AI experts and be a part of our mission to power an inclusive future for all.

WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do

U.S. employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.