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About this Account Executive - Architecture role at Cisco

Cisco · Onsite · Seattle, Washington, US
The application window is expected to close on: 10/20/2026

Note: While this is a remote position, we are seeking candidates located in or willing to relocate to the greater Seattle, Portland, or Boulder markets to be onsite with customers as needed.

Meet the Team

The Collaboration team works on solutions that enable our customers to work in a whole new way. With mobility and cloud, devices and locations no longer matter, and the quality of the Cisco Collaboration experience helps people to achieve extraordinary things. Delivering simple, magical and open collaboration experience leveraging AI is more important to businesses than ever before and Cisco's Collaboration solution portfolio exactly aligns technology to meet our customer's key business priorities.

Join a dynamic team that is driving growth and adoption of Cisco Collaboration solutions into the market, leading the move to cloud and as a service models and disrupting traditional competing vendors in the space. Become part of the dynamic Account Executive Collaboration team that owns and drives the product and solution strategy for Cisco Collaboration. Take control of the business, make an impact, and shape the market by engaging with our customers and partners and by being an advocate for workplace transformation amongst the Cisco sales teams.

Your Impact

As the Account Executive - Collaboration, Covering State, Local and Education Customers in the Pacific Northwest markets, you will be a key member of the Cisco Collaboration sales team. You will own and deliver on a sales target for Cisco Collaboration for your territory. This will include forecasting, tracking and analyzing the bookings and pipeline of your territory.

  • Responsible for developing and implementing the go-to-market plans to accelerate the growth of Cisco Collaboration into the Scale market focused on State and Local, Education.

  • Provide subject matter expertise for and work closely with the sales organization and channels teams.

  • Ensure Cisco Collaboration go-to-market readiness in sales, channel and customer advocacy organizations.

  • Work with Cisco Collaboration Marketing and Scale teams to drive campaigns and programs to generate incremental bookings and pipeline.

  • Capture and drive collaboration products and solutions requirements suitable for the Scale market.

  • Drive training and awareness initiatives for customers, partners and distribution channels.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of proven experience in a selling or consulting role for software, cloud and or mobility offerings.

  • Strong practical knowledge of Software as a Service and collaboration technologies.

  • Consistent track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives and revenue targets.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passionate about helping State, Local and Education agencies make a difference by changing the way they work through powerful collaboration experiences.

  • Understand and can articulate how collaboration powers business growth, innovation and efficiency.

  • Understand and can articulate how exceptional end user experiences drive usage and adoption of collaboration solutions.

  • Outstanding communication, presentation and written skills.

  • A creative thinker who is passionate about customer success.

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:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $263,900.00 to $359,500.00 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. 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:

$292,100.00 - $441,900.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$263,900.00 - $409,200.00

* 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.

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How this Account Executive salary compares

This role pays $311,700/yr — above the typical range for Account Executive roles.

$71,500 median $142,500 $300,000

Typical range $95,000–$205,000/yr, from 4,786 comparable Account Executive listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Account Executive salary insights →

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