Job Summary

The role focuses on customer engagement and experience by working closely with customers to create value, drive adoption, and support renewals, while proactively collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Customer Success, Sales, Support, and product and engineering to ensure a unified customer experience throughout the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

- Leads execution of advanced, multi-area solutions and deliverables
- Applies technical expertise across domains, advising on end-to-end solutions
- Typically impacts within assigned theater, while building sphere of influence outside of assigned theater
- Builds strong, trust-based customer relationships
- Aligns solutions with customer goals, lifecycles, and challenges, leveraging business context (including E2E plan) to shape recommendations
- Uses a consultative approach to nurture relationships, overcome challenges, and secure next steps with customers and partners
- Adjusts strategies based on multiple feedback sources and performance insights to drive innovation and maximize customer outcomes (e.g., deployment, adoption, expansion)
- Leads strategy, deployment, and optimization of Cisco services and solutions, ensuring alignment with customer goals
- Reviews and approves designs and deliverables (including input to customers hardware and software roadmap), using AI to inform decisions and automate impact assessments
- Establishes documentation best practices, driving technical accuracy, clarity, and stakeholder alignment
- Integrates emerging AI and automation methods into delivery practices
- Builds customer simulations and supports escalation for complex technical issues
- Demonstrates expertise across technologies,



developing specialized insight in a sector or domain (e.g., Healthcare, BFSI) to benefit a broad customer base, and implementing Resilience and Security by design into all deliverables
- Leverages advanced knowledge of software programmability, automation, orchestration, virtualization, DevOps and AI Ops to drive adoption and expansion
- Educates a range of stakeholders on technological innovations and transfers knowledge to customers, enabling them to independently manage and optimize Cisco solutions
- Manages knowledge repository, developing intellectual capital, best practices, deployment guides, and playbooks for reuse; leads and contributes to technical documentation
- Uses competitive market insights to differentiate Cisco solutions and drive innovation
- Leverages AI to optimize complex workflows and reduce operational overhead, identifies opportunities for broader team adoption and ensures AI-informed work meets high standards of accuracy
- Strengthens customer relationships and trust through co-creation, negotiation, and framing choices in terms of risk and return
- Takes end-to-end responsibility for the success of customer solutions and leads collaboration across internal teams (e.g., other CEs, TCE, and TAC stakeholders, sales teams on pre-sales activities) and external stakeholders
- Applies business and financial acumen to assess solution value,



considering metrics that matter to technical buyers
- Collaborates across CX Delivery, Adoption, and SE or account teams and interfaces with customers regularly
- Builds leadership presence through regular customer engagements and by participating in industry events such as Cisco Live and IETF forums
- Actively mentors junior CEs, contributing to their development and strengthening team performance through knowledge sharing and support

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience, or equivalent relevant work experience
- Skilled level (e.g., CCNP) or equivalent and certification in DevOps (i.e., Cisco DevNet) expected

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