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About the role
Join Cisco’s AI & Service Provider Business Development team, focused on accelerating adoption of Cisco’s strategic AI, security, observability, and infrastructure products through partnerships. We work across Cisco’s business units, product teams, sales organizations, and partner ecosystem to turn emerging AI opportunities into repeatable offers, customer adoption, and measurable growth.
What they're looking for
- Meet the Team
- Your Impact
- Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, product management, technical marketing, or go-to-market roles
- Experience building or managing partnerships with service providers, cloud infrastructure companies, security partners, AI/ML companies, hyperscalers, neoclouds, or enterprise technology platforms
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate market opportunities, build business cases, analyze partner or sales metrics, and support strategic decision-making
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 10/11/2026
Meet the Team
Join Cisco’s AI & Service Provider Business Development team, focused on accelerating adoption of Cisco’s strategic AI, security, observability, and infrastructure products through partnerships. We work across Cisco’s business units, product teams, sales organizations, and partner ecosystem to turn emerging AI opportunities into repeatable offers, customer adoption, and measurable growth. Our team sits at the intersection of Cisco’s AI strategy, service provider relationships, sovereign infrastructure, and next-generation security.
Your Impact
You will help shape and execute Cisco’s global service provider strategy for AI-led growth. You will focus on building strategic partnerships with leading telcos, neoclouds, AI security partners, and ecosystem players to accelerate adoption of Cisco’s priority products in areas such as AI security, sovereign AI infrastructure, agentic operations, cloud control, SASE, quantum-safe networking, and observability.
You will identify and advance high-impact partnership opportunities with global service providers, helping Cisco create new offers that address customer demand...
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