Senior Client Director
Cisco
The application window is expected to close on: October 1st 2025
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
- 5+ years of sales management or director-level experience within the Cloud and AI technology sector, leading teams responsible for $100M+ in bookings, consistently exceeding targets.
- 5+ years industry expertise with an understanding of challenges, competitive landscape, and emerging trends relevant to cloud providers, AI, and advanced networking technologies.
- Experience leading large, high-performing teams in matrixed, fast-paced, and highly technical organizations.
- Demonstrated experience with executive-level selling in complex customer engagements, effectively bridging business acumen with technical depth.
- Visionary Strategic Leadership: Define and execute compelling business plans, balancing immediate demands with long-term growth objectives within the dynamic cloud and AI technology landscape.
- High-Impact Talent & Organizational Development: Cultivate, mentor, and inspire high-performing, matrix-managed technical sales teams and channel partners, leveraging strong executive presence to drive exceptional performance.
- Aggressive Market Expansion & Complex Sales Mastery: Drive significant market share growth and secure new customer opportunities by expertly managing large, intricate sales initiatives across a diverse product portfolio.
- Technical-Business Integration & Product Influence: Deeply collaborate with engineering and technical stakeholders to strategically influence product roadmaps and optimize customer outcomes.
- Executive Communication & Financial Forecasting Acumen: Articulate complex technical concepts compellingly and concisely to diverse executive audiences, ensuring precise sales and supply chain forecasting for predictable business performance.
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.