The posting
The application window is expected to close on: 10/23/2026
Meet the Team
Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences.
ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.
Your Impact
As a Senior Account Executive for ThousandEyes, you will own a portfolio of strategic commercial accounts across the US Northeast territory. This is a unique role that combines the reach, relationships, and resources of Cisco with the speed and entrepreneurial mindset of a high-growth SaaS organization.
Our best Account Executives excel at both motions: scaling through Cisco's extensive customer relationships while independently creating executive relationships, developing pipeline, and closing strategic business. This is an individual contributor, quota-carrying role with the opportunity to develop and close complex $500K to $1M+ ACV transactions.
- Own and execute the ThousandEyes growth strategy across a select portfolio of commercial accounts, driving both new logo acquisition and expansion.
- Build executive-level relationships and establish ThousandEyes as a strategic partner aligned to customers' most important technology and business initiatives.
- Create pipeline independently while leveraging Cisco Account Managers, Specialists, Partners, and leadership to accelerate access and deal execution.
- Lead complex enterprise sales cycles from opportunity creation through technical evaluation, executive alignment, pricing, negotiation, and close.
- Build existing customers into $1M+ ARR strategic relationships while delivering consistent quota attainment, pipeline coverage, and forecast accuracy.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience selling enterprise technology solutions, including experience achieving or exceeding quotas.
- Experience developing and closing six- and seven-figure transactions with Fortune 500 or other enterprise organizations.
- Experience generating sales pipeline and collaborating with a partner ecosystem and internal resources to develop and close opportunities.
- Experience selling to VP-level and C-suite stakeholders and managing sales processes involving multiple decision makers.
- Experience negotiating enterprise sales agreements and developing strategic account plans.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience selling observability, networking, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or other strategic enterprise SaaS solutions.
- Experience penetrating new strategic accounts and expanding existing customers into $1M+ annual relationships.
- Experience operating successfully in an overlay, specialist, or partner-led sales model while maintaining independent ownership of pipeline and deal execution.
- Entrepreneurial, competitive, and self-motivated, with the ability to operate with significant autonomy and create opportunities rather than wait for them.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values urgency, accountability, collaboration, and a "roll up your sleeves" mentality.
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.
