Senior Portfolio Strategist

Meet the Team

Cisco is seeking a dynamic, high-impact senior leader to join our Portfolio Strategy team. In this influential role, you will work directly with C-suite executives—both within Cisco and at our top 500 customer organizations—to deliver the One Cisco message. You will serve as a critical bridge between Cisco’s visionary strategy and its technical execution, ensuring our largest, most strategic clients clearly understand how Cisco’s portfolio can deliver on their business outcomes.

• Executive Engagement: Partner directly with Cisco’s C-suite, Office of the CEO, the sales and partner leaders, and their direct reports to drive One Cisco positioning and technical advisory focused on delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
• Team Collaboration: Operate as a senior member of the Field CTO team, contributing expertise and working collaboratively to engage with Cisco’s top 500 customers.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product General Managers, senior sales leaders, and other key stakeholders to identify, shape, and help close high-value opportunities.
• Strategic Messaging Execution: Deliver and tailor the One Cisco story—crafted by Cisco’s CPO—to executive stakeholders at customer organizations, focusing on the practical, technical, and implementation details that are aligned to our strategic vision.
• Technical Depth & Influence: Operate at both the strategic and technical levels: articulate technology roadmaps, solution architectures, and implementation paths to customer executives.
• Customer Advocacy: Serve as a trusted advisor to customer executives, helping them translate Cisco’s vision into actionable strategies for their unique business and technical needs.

• Proven track record of executive-level engagement and influence, especially with C-suite customers in large, complex organizations.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively as part of a highly experienced technical team.
• Deep understanding of enterprise technology landscapes, digital transformation, and the ability to translate high-level vision into actionable technical strategies.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to deliver complex technical concepts to senior, non-technical audiences.
• Ability to travel as required for key customer and executive meetings.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.