Meet the Team:

Splunk, a Cisco company, is dedicated to building a safer and more resilient digital world with our comprehensive platform for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. Leading enterprises rely on our unified security and observability solutions to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While our technology is highly regarded, it’s our people who make Splunk an outstanding place to grow your career. We value collaboration, integrity, and professional growth. Bring your sales experience, drive, and ambition—and help organizations achieve their goals while advancing your own career with a supportive team.

This role can be performed from any location within the United States.

Your Impact:

Build and Advance a High-Quality Pipeline

• Make 30+ targeted outbound calls daily to generate, qualify, and progress opportunities, ensuring steady pipeline growth.

• Use account-based strategies to identify key contacts, deliver tailored messaging, and create new business opportunities.

• Research target accounts to inform outreach and engagement efforts.

Guide Opportunities Through the Sales Process

• Take ownership of deals from initial engagement through to completion, ensuring a positive experience for prospects and customers.

• Manage and lead multiple opportunities simultaneously, keeping momentum and engagement high throughout each stage of the sales process.

• Maintain accurate pipeline information and sales activity in CRM systems, supporting effective forecasting and planning.

Collaborate to Drive Team Results

• Partner with field sales and cross-functional teams to support broader account strategies and ensure customer needs are met.

• Collaborate with channel and ecosystem partners to identify joint opportunities, coordinate outreach, and advance deals, maximizing value for customers and driving mutual success.

• Share protocols and market insights to help achieve team sales goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in inside sales or business development in the technology or SaaS sector.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of successfully moving prospects through the sales process and contributing to revenue targets.

• Understanding of SaaS sales cycles and consultative sales approaches, including prospecting, qualification, and solution positioning.

• Adaptable, organized, and able to prioritize in a dynamic environment.

• Coachable, with a continuous learning mindset and a focus on results.

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

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** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 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

• 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:

• .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 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.