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Develop and execute executive communications for the Americas Software and Services Sales VP while supporting communications operations. Responsibilities include strategic messaging, thought leadership content, communication channels, social media strategy, templates, toolkits, playbooks, platform management, and alignment with sales, global communications, enablement, and change management teams.

Lead Cisco’s global public relations strategy for brand partnerships and sponsorships across sports, culture, and entertainment. Develop strategic narratives, advise senior leaders, manage media relations, coordinate agencies, and execute integrated campaigns. Build relationships with customers, stakeholders, and global media while using market insights and PR measurement to strengthen brand equity, expand coverage, and mitigate reputational risks.

Leads talent intelligence strategy by governing external labor-market data, synthesizing multi-source analytics into executive narratives, defining reporting and AI use cases, and partnering with analytics engineering on Snowflake models. Champions talent intelligence platforms, trains recruiting teams, develops sourcing playbooks and market briefings, and advises leaders on competitor talent, skills, compensation, attrition, location, and hiring strategies.

Leads inside sales teams serving the U.S. public sector, driving quota attainment, pipeline performance, portfolio profitability, and sustainable growth. Responsibilities include coaching and developing sales professionals, managing performance, aligning teams with business strategy, analyzing sales data and market trends, improving sales processes, fostering collaboration, and implementing digital engagement strategies. The role also builds relationships with customers and partners and supports strategic growth across government accounts.

Serve as the technical advisor for enterprise accounts, leading discovery, solution design, demos, workshops, proofs of value, and technical sales cycles. Expand Splunk adoption across Core, Security, and Observability, support competitive displacement, build executive and technical relationships, coordinate internal specialists and partners, and communicate customer insights to Product, Sales, and Marketing.

Lead global cloud capacity planning across providers, regions, workloads, and resource types. Build forecasts and scenario models, align demand with supply, manage CSP reservations, control cloud costs with FinOps, and coordinate with sales, engineering, and product teams. Mentor capacity planners and introduce AI-enabled forecasting and reporting tools to improve accuracy, delivery timing, and capacity-gap ownership.

Manages strategic global partner relationships and alliances, develops multi-product go-to-market strategies, influences executive stakeholders, leads sales enablement and cross-functional initiatives, and oversees forecasting and pipeline acceleration. The role drives partner ecosystem growth, new market entry, consumption-model adoption, product roadmap influence, and revenue expansion through workshops, pilots, competitive analysis, and scalable partner programs.

Manages and drives sales opportunities for assigned accounts in collaboration with Cisco partners and specialist sellers. Responsibilities include meeting quotas, territory planning, developing Cisco Networking expertise, maintaining pipeline accuracy, forecasting, and engaging customers using digital sales tools. The role requires B2B selling experience, quota attainment, relationship management, full-cycle sales capability, and occasional travel for customer and partner engagements.

Leads requirements gathering, configuration, testing, deployment, and optimization of global Workday solutions across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Security, Reporting, and related areas. Partners with HR, Payroll, Talent, IT, and third-party teams to automate processes, resolve complex production issues, assess system impacts, and implement emerging Workday AI capabilities. Provides strategic guidance and mentors other Workday Solutions team members.

Conduct research and prototype learning-based methods for perception, planning, and control in embodied AI and robotics. Collaborate on navigation, manipulation, orchestration, and real-world robot systems. Evaluate vision and machine learning models for robotics applications and contribute to peer-reviewed publications, patents, prototypes, and other technical outcomes.