Administrative Assistant, Director, Sales (Remote)

This role can be performed from any location within the United States, with a strong preference for Pacific or Mountain time locations.

About the role

Meet the Team Americas SP - Technology, Media, and Communications (ASP TMC) is on a mission to harness the strength of our service providers to fuel growth, drive innovation, and deliver outstanding results for our customers, partners, and Cisco — especially in the world of AI. ASP TMC supports service provider customers across the US, Canada, and Latin America. In this role, you will support two Directors.

You will provide support for calendaring, travel, expense reporting, and oversight of special projects, as needed. To perform these tasks successfully, you will learn the products, people, and organizational dynamics within Cisco. You will understand how to handle, with a great degree of independence, incoming asks for time, meetings, resources, and other needs from the Director. You will be responsible for determining when to refer matters to others, and to whom they should be referred. You will follow up to ensure accurate disposition and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. You will become a core member of the Director’s team, attending monthly staff meetings and quarterly all-team meetings.

Responsibilities

• Calendar Management: Handle Director’s calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings. Decide who gets on the principal’s calendar, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in their place.
• Meeting Planning and Organization: Assist Director in planning and coordinating meetings by assembling the agenda, arranging location, meeting technology (WebEx, TP) based on participant needs, and all other meeting logistics. Prepare meeting briefing documents by taking and disseminating notes and formulating post-meeting action item lists.
• Correspondence/Approvals: Act as proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Answer general questions as needed and refer routine matters to appropriate parties, following up to ensure accurate completion.
• Travel: Make travel arrangements for the Director. Carefully consider and decide the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses.
• Special Projects: Provide analytical support to assist Director on special projects. Research issues, analyze problems, compile data, and prepare reports.
• Confidentiality: Deal professionally with sensitive and confidential matters and materials.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in an administrative environment.
• A minimum of one year of experience supporting a principal who was at the Sr Manager level or above.
• Sophisticated knowledge of Mac/Windows desktop computer applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience in calendar management, planning meetings, and coordinating travel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to connect with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.
• High-energy with a passion for thinking bigger and broader than the role itself.
• Strong interpersonal skills, independent judgment, utmost integrity, and ability to balance both strategic and tactical actions.
• Outstanding attention to detail and the ability to handle confidential information.
• Enjoy a collaborative environment, are committed to improvement, solve problems, and make decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired; prior Cisco experience preferred.
• Associate's degree.

About 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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $86,700.00 to $109,700.00 for new hires in U.S. 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:

• New York City Metro Area: $86,700.00 - $126,200.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $76,700.00 - $111,700.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Paid time away, subject to Cisco’s policies:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on vacation time (subject to availability and business limitations).
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
  • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Eligibility to earn annual bonuses, subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, split between quota and non-quota components.
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.