Sales Leader
Not Disclosed•Full-TimeOn-site
location_onI 5, First Hill, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98104, United States
At Cisco, we're helping organizations connect, monitor, secure, and modernize their cloud-native and AI environments at scale. Isovalent sits at the forefront of this transformation, delivering innovative technologies that empower platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and security teams to build, operate, and secure modern applications and architectures. Built on open-source innovation and trusted by some of the world's most advanced engineering organizations, Isovalent technologies are redefining how enterprises approach networking, observability, runtime security, AI, and cloud-native operations.
As a Sales Leader, you will join a fast-growing business within Cisco that operates with the energy, speed, and technical depth of a startup. You will lead a team responsible for driving adoption of the Isovalent, Hypershield, and Secure Workload portfolio across Commercial, Service Provider, Cloud, and Enterprise customer segments.
This role is unique because success requires far more than traditional sales leadership. You will actively engage with customers, support highly technical sales motions, and help your team navigate complex cloud-native conversations and strategic pursuits with platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and security teams. You will partner closely with Sales Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Open Source communities, and the broader Cisco GTM Teams to accelerate customer adoption and market awareness.
Your day-to-day will involve participating directly in customer engagements, executive discussions, technical whiteboarding sessions, and strategic account planning. You will coach teams through complex technical sales cycles involving Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, observability, workload security, AI, and modern application architectures. Ultimately, you will help scale a rapidly evolving business while maintaining the agility, urgency, and entrepreneurial mindset of a startup organization.
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. 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 Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
The application window is expected to close on 06/06/2026. The job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Work model: On-site
I 5, First Hill, Seattle, King County, Washington, 98104, United States
Seattle, Washington
Experience with Kubernetes ecosystems and cloud-native technologies. Solid track record of leading large, highly technical and complex sales pursuits, including forecasting and business planning, quota attainment, sales presentations skills, and short/mid/long term opportunity management. Familiarity with technologies such as Cilium, eBPF, Tetragon, runtime security, container networking, cloud-native observability, or related technologies. Background in selling to cloud security, platform engineering, infrastructure security, DevSecOps, workload protection, and/or open-source technologies. Successful track record and experience working within high-growth technology companies or startup environments. Demonstrated ability to build, scale, and develop teams in emerging technology markets. Strong executive communication, coaching, and leadership capabilities. Ability to translate highly technical concepts into business value for customers, partners, and executive stakeholders.
