Leader, Solutions Engineer - US Commercial - Chicago

Your Impact

Lead and Inspire: Guide a team of Solutions Engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence across 4 states in the central US.

Drive Strategy: Partner with your sales leader counterpart and account executive 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: 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, science, or a related field.
• Strong technical foundation across the Cisco portfolio, including routing, switching and wireless technologies.
• 5+ years of pre-sales engineering/industry experience, with acumen around inter-networking products and trends, including competitive landscape.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, DEVELOP EVERY TEAM MEMBER, build relationships, and drive initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-ready data centers, Hybrid Work, Security, and Digital Resilience.
• Cisco certifications and/or industry certifications.
• Strong technical foundation across Cisco competitors and industries.
• Outstanding interpersonal, problem-solving, and solution-selling skills.
• Dedication to continuous development of technical skills and industry trends.

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $205,700.00 to $266,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.

Time Off

• 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.
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
• 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 how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations).
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Sales Incentives

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
• Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.