Tri State Senior Commercial Solutions Engineer - Chief of Staff

The application window is expected to close on Dec 31 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet The Team

As a Operations Level Solutions Engineer for the US Commercial Tri State Operation, you will be focused on being a pre-sales field technical customer facing engineer influencing the most strategic and innovative areas of our business. You will spend your time with customers while collaborating with Account Teams, Connected Teams, Partners, and BEs. This is a technical leadership role and is focused on delivering business outcomes through bringing high customer intimacy, thought leadership, executive engagement, and technical excellence.

Your Impact

• Technical, trusted advisor to Commercial Account Teams and Customers
• Bring thought leadership and deep knowledge across our solutions and architectures applying it across all verticals
• Participate and lead high impact customer engagements through Tech Days, Connect, Cisco Experience Center Briefings, Executive Discussions, EFT opportunities, Stay Ready and Cisco Live and other similar events
• Champion culture of learning, coaching, and technical excellence
• Develop Executive Relationships and Champions with our most strategic Accounts through trust, business acumen, and technical strategies
• Drives focus on full lifecycle and adoption of our solutions partnering with our Services Sellers to position CX services offerings
• Participate in any relevant advisory boards, tiger teams to represent Commercial customer feedback and needs, shaping the future of our portfolio and offerings
• Help create campaigns and initiatives for the Operation based on the needs of the business and growth and drive existing and new go-to-market strategies for the SE community
• Invest in your personal development, such as certifications, self study, soft skills, executive coaching, market trend analysis, competitive training, and other relevant training to strengthen and sharpen your skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $257,800.00 to $325,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

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. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, 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 determined by Cisco

Non-exempt 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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows :

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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below :

New York City Metro Area :

$257,800.00 - $374,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$242,800.00 - $357,100.00