Meet the Team

Are you passionate about selling cutting edge technology into some of the world’s largest companies? Come join one of the most exciting companies & technologies in the Kubernetes space, Isovalent, the company behind the game changing eBPF, Cilium and Tetragon projects. We are a team of highly passionate technologists, transforming an entire industry. We believe deeply in Open Source, and value the diverse community around it. We aim to provide significant value to our customers with our value-added enterprise offerings. Our Isovalent Enterprise platform delivers unparalleled identity-aware networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes and beyond.

Isovalent is the company founded by the creators of Cilium, eBPF and Tetragon. Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructures. The flagship technology, Cilium, is the choice of leading global organizations, including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Microsoft, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more. Isovalent now a part of Cisco.

Isovalent is driven by a simple goal: Building amazing technology and making our customers successful with it. Beginning with our open source roots, building outstanding technology with a great team continues to be at the core of everything we do. We work every day to inspire our customers with our solutions and exceed their expectations. Beyond technology, many Isonauts share a love of the outdoors, running, hiking, skiing, climbing and biking.

Your Impact

Isovalent is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to drive revenue for its game changing Isovalent Enterprise solution. This is a quota-carrying sales role targeting US East Enterprises solving complex use cases around networking, observability and security for their microservices and cloud-native applications. Reports directly to the Head of Sales & GTM for the Americas.

• Define and execute strategy & sales plans for your region
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota expectations
• Partner closely with technical resources to ensure technical excellence in all positioning, competitive analysis, proposals and exchanges.
• Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage a high-velocity, ARR and TCV sales pipeline
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, demand gen, marketing and sales engineering
• Provide customers and partners with proposals, pricing and configurations to meet their needs
• Qualify, solution and articulate Isovalent value proposition(s) and key differentiators to prospects, customers and colleagues within Cisco
• Understand the cloud native market, being familiar with competing technologies, projects, companies and their offerings

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of Enterprise Sales experience selling to Fortune 500 Companies
• Domain experience with one or more of the following required: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, VMware, RedHat, Openstack, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), Monitoring software, Data Center Security
• Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
• Experience in selling Enterprise Technologies based on Opensource Software
• Experience selling to Cloud Native Platform and Security teams

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 $318,500.00 to $422,000.00 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:

$318,500.00 – $480,300.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$303,800.00 – $458,700.00

* 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.