Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. 

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 70,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. 

Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.

Industry: Software Development
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

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**Location: ** Remote, East Coast Preference

Being a part of Cisco’s global sales organization, the Internet & Mass-Scale Infrastructure (I&MI) specialist organization provides deep technical, industry and market expertise, influences product, solutions and commercial direction, orchestrates strategic customer engagements and enables Cisco’s portfolio and partner sellers to effectively position our solutions. Our remit is to grow market share with Webscaler, Service Provider and Enterprise/Public Sector customers globally for the entire I&MI product portfolio, encompassing high-end routing, optics, optical, automation & assurance, and mobility solutions.

One objective is to position Automation & Assurance not just as a standalone solution, but as the essential layer that enhances the value proposition of our Routing and Optics portfolio, creating a unified, high-impact sales strategy.

Within I&MI, the Center of Excellence (CoE) is the global engine that translates market transitions and technology innovation in Cisco’s I&MI portfolio into durable growth and market share gain for Cisco. We lead the charge in bridging the gap between Cisco’s cutting-edge technology and field execution.

We are looking for a highly versatile **Business Program Manager **— who thrives in ambiguity and can operate across the entire lifecycle of our business. You will pivot between high-touch consultative customer engagements, scalable sales plays, high-impact enablement assets, and measurable revenue outcomes. You will translate nascent ideas and pre-structured concepts into fully realized, high-impact programs with minimal oversight, driving innovation, efficiency, and measurable business outcomes across our specialist sales organization. If you are a strategic thinker who loves to roll up your sleeves and execute, this is the role for you.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Consultative Customer Engagement: Lead high-level business consulting projects for top-tier customers that can directly impact customer business outcomes and monetization.

- Sales Motion Innovation: Drive the transformation of our telco, webscaler and enterprise/public sector facing sales motions. Create repeatable, scalable "sales plays" that field teams can execute with confidence.

- Revenue & Pipeline Acceleration: Actively drive revenue engines by identifying high-growth opportunities. Enable front-line sellers, provide data-driven insights to leadership, and intervene where necessary to accelerate deal velocity.

- Content & Enablement Leadership: Author and curate sales enablement assets. Synthesize the business value of our Routing, Optics, Mobility and Automation & Assurance solutions to our customers and translate complex product roadmaps into clear, actionable sales tools, ensuring that our sellers can articulate the cross-architecture value of the entire I&MI stack.

- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Build and nurture relationships across Product Management, Marketing, IT, and global sales organizations to ensure seamless program integration and execution.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Consulting background (internal or external) with a focus on guiding strategy and transformation work within the telco and/or B2B technology sector required.

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience in program management, advisory, or sales operations within the B2B technology sector.

- Proven understanding of networking infrastructure, specifically high-end routing, Optical/Optics, Automation/Assurance and Mobility.

- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with minimal oversight. Exceptional ability to influence, negotiate, and drive consensus among cross-functional stakeholders, including executive-level leadership, across diverse global teams.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), advanced AI toolsets and familiarity with sales analytics platforms (e.g., Tableau, Salesforce).

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or advanced certification in project management.

- Demonstrable experience with Automation & Assurance platforms, including an understanding of how these tools drive operational efficiency and network intelligence.

- Deep expertise in Cisco’s I&MI product portfolio and the competitive landscape.

- Comprehensive understanding and experience in innovating B2B technology sales processes, go-to-market strategies and sales enablement curricula.

- Ability to act as a change agent, fostering collaboration across globally distributed, virtual teams.

**Why Join Us?**

The I&MI CoE is at the forefront of Cisco’s most critical market transitions. This role offers unparalleled visibility into the business, the opportunity to shape global strategy, and the autonomy to drive real-world impact. You will be part of a high-performing, collaborative team that values innovation, operational rigor, and the pursuit of market leadership.

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 $174,000.00 to $232,100.00 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**

$174,000.00 - $273,900.00

**Non-Metro New York State & Washington State**

$161,100.00 - $235,300.00

-  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.

Business Program Manager, I&MI

The South Carolina Department of Revenue helps move South Carolina forward by collecting 95% of the state’s General Fund. Committed to making compliance easy for taxpayers, and valuing excellence, collaboration, and professionalism, we work to be an innovative and trustworthy partner for taxpayers, businesses, and tax professionals.

Industry: Government Administration
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees

South Carolina Department of Revenue

**Job Responsibilities**

**Who we are:**

At the South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR), we are funding a better state to live, work, and play. Offering excellent benefits, hybrid work schedules, tuition assistance, and self-development opportunities, we are a trustworthy partner to our customers and an innovative workplace that supports work-life balance and empowers our employees to reach their highest potential. Open the door to a career at the SCDOR and discover why 93% of our employees see how their work contributes to the SCDOR’s success—by collecting 95% of South Carolina’s general fund, our team serves with purpose and impacts the success of our community.

Learn more about why you should join our team at dor.sc.gov/careers .

**We Are Looking For Teammates Who Are**

- Experienced in designing and implementing enterprise infrastructure on premise and in the cloud

- Knowledgeable in multi-tier systems, enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and data management technologies

- Strategic thinkers who evaluate emerging technologies and recommend scalable solutions

- Collaborative technical leaders who work effectively with staff, stakeholders, and vendors

**What You Will Do**

You will serve as an expert cloud architecture resource on the Infrastructure Hardware team, designing and providing production support for on premise software, hardware, and cloud infrastructure that support the agency’s strategic business initiatives.

**Primary Job Duties Include**

- Providing technical management for network components to include installations, updates, configurations, and troubleshooting of firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, wireless, servers, storage, and cloud infrastructure

- Providing architectural expertise and direction

- Supplementing support and maintenance functions with a focus on infrastructure and cloud infrastructure design

- Determining feasibility, cost, equipment needs, and time constraints/allocations for assigned projects

- Making design recommendations for the entire network and creating detailed Visio diagrams

- Providing knowledge transfer and training on supported systems to ensure business continuity

- Developing compliance documentation for the network

- Assisting network analysts in classifying information assets based on the data classification schema

- Monitoring the status and effectiveness of controls and providing reports

- Assisting auditors and security staff in reviewing network systems or processes to identify compliance related vulnerabilities

- Participating in scan remediation, on-site reviews, penetration testing, and checking controls of network components

- Analyzing network efficiency

- Diagnoses and correcting network problems and monitoring and reporting on network traffic, usage, and performance

- Researching new technologies with an emphasis on compatibility to our environment while providing the highest security possible providing guidance leading to solutions with our strategic initiatives

**Minimum And Additional Requirements**

**Either:**

- A bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field and experience in business administration, computer science, mathematics, engineering, management information science, networking-telecommunications, and/or data processing in either an on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environment OR

- Relevant experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year-for-year basis OR

- Relevant experience or education may be substituted on a year-for-year basis with an approved equivalence by the Division of State Human Resources (DSHR)

Academic degrees must be from an accredited institution of higher learning.

**Additional Requirements**

- Ability to lift 40 lbs.

- Valid driver’s license

- Travel: This position requires the ability to travel to provide support for SCDOR district offices or data centers. This may include some overnight travel

- On-Call: This position participates in a shared on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support as needed

**Preferred Qualifications**

- At least three years of experience in cloud infrastructure design and implementation

- Advanced experience in designing and implementing enterprise level infrastructure on premise

**Additional Comments**

- EEO: The SCDOR is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation.

- Hours: Flexible hours may be available from 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week).

- This position participates in a shared on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support as needed

- Telework schedule: This position may be eligible to work remotely up to two days per week after one year of employment with SCDOR.

- Travel: This position requires the ability to travel to provide support for SCDOR district offices or data centers. This may include some overnight travel.

**Ready to apply?**

- Apply online and complete the application fully, including all current and previous work history and education.

- You may submit a resume, but it will not be considered as a substitute for completing the entire application.

- Candidates selected to move forward in the hiring process will be contacted to complete an aptitude or skills assessment and personality profile (using Criteria Corp) and may be contacted to complete a one-way virtual interview (using Spark Hire).

- Candidates selected for hire are required to comply with all SCDOR tax requirements and are subject to a National Criminal Background Check, which includes fingerprinting.

Cloud Architect

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