About the Role
As the Account Executive for Sky, you will drive revenue growth, develop executive relationships, identify new business opportunities, and orchestrate Cisco resources to support Sky's business and technology priorities. You will serve as the primary account leader, working closely with Cisco specialists, business units, Customer Experience teams, partners, and other Cisco account leaders to align priorities, share insights, and drive strategic customer outcomes. This is a highly customer-facing role requiring regular in-person engagement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Cisco relationship for Sky across technology, business, operational, and executive partners.
- Develop and execute account strategies that drive growth, technology adoption, customer retention, and long-term business expansion.
- Build positive relationships with executive leaders, architects, engineers, operations teams, and procurement partners.
- Lead complex sales opportunities across Cisco's portfolio, coordinating specialists, Customer Experience teams, partners, and business units.
- Collaborate with Cisco account leaders supporting Comcast-related businesses to understand common priorities, leverage shared findings, and align Cisco strategies.
- Maintain a strong customer presence through regular in-person meetings, executive engagement, business reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of enterprise technology sales, account management, or strategic customer leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience running complex customer relationships and multi-stakeholder sales opportunities.
- Experience developing account plans, running pipeline, and delivering forecast commitments.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
Skills
- Strong executive presence with experience engaging senior technology and business leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to build executive relationships and establish trusted advisor status.
- Ability to influence outcomes across organizations without direct authority.
- Knowledge of networking, security, observability, collaboration, cloud, AI, and related technology solutions.
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and strategic planning skills.
Location
- International
Work Type
- Customer-facing
- In-person engagement
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
