Security Account Executive - Fed/Civ

Security Account Executive

Empowering the world to reach its full potential, securelythat's our vision. At Cisco Security, we help organizations protect communities, critical services, and essential public resources from evolving cyber threats.

Our team partners with state, local, and regional agencies responsible for protecting citizens and maintaining public trust. These organizations face increasing cybersecurity challenges while operating complex networks, critical communications systems, and public safety infrastructure. Cisco works alongside these agencies to modernize security operations, improve resilience, and enable secure digital transformation initiatives.

As a Security Account Executive focused on Federal Civilian, Federal Law Enforcement, and Defense Industrial Base customers, you will be responsible for driving Cisco Security growth across a territory of state and local government agencies. You will build trusted relationships with agency leadership, understand mission priorities, and help customers adopt security solutions that protect critical systems and public services.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and execute account plans across assigned agencies.
• Build relationships with executive and operational leaders, including CIOs, CISOs.
• Identify opportunities to modernize cybersecurity programs and improve operational resilience.
• Position Cisco's Security portfolio to address agency priorities including threat protection, Zero Trust, secure access, cloud security, and incident response.
• Collaborate with Cisco Account Managers, Security Specialists, Solutions Engineers, and partners to drive customer success.
• Navigate government procurement processes, contract vehicles, and funding programs.
• Consistently achieve and exceed assigned sales objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of technology sales experience with 5+ years focused on cybersecurity, networking, or infrastructure solutions.
• Experience selling technology solutions into State & Local Government, Public Safety, Law Enforcement, or other Public Sector organizations.
• Proven track record of achieving or exceeding sales quotas.
• Experience managing complex sales opportunities involving multiple stakeholders and procurement processes.
• Experience developing strategic territory and account plans.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience selling cybersecurity solutions including network security, cloud security, SASE, Zero Trust, XDR, or identity security technologies.
• Familiarity with State & Local Government procurement processes, purchasing vehicles, and public sector funding mechanisms.
• Experience supporting law enforcement agencies, public safety organizations, emergency services, or justice-related institutions.
• Strong executive presence and relationship-building skills.
• Experience utilizing consultative sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC.

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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $263,500.00 to $354,900.00 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:

$287,300.00 - $423,200.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$263,500.00 - $404,100.00

* 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.