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We work in alignment with sales, delivery, partners, and renewals teams to proactively manage and mitigate renewal risk throughout the customer journey. We are the customer’s trusted advisor and technology evangelist, helping them understand their environments, optimize workflows, and achieve their business objectives through Cisco's innovative solutions.\nYour Impact\nAs a Customer Experience Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful adoption and utilization of Cisco technologies and services within our customer organizations leading to value realization and growth of our business. You're the primary CX point-of-contact for customers taking end-to-end ownership. You will understand their Business and Technical objectives and develop strategies that will enable them. You will be responsible for ensuring we deliver customer aligned outcomes. You will engage with both executives and technical partners within the customer.\nDrive adoption of software, services and value realization leading to successful renewal and growth. Proactively manage and mitigate renewal risk throughout customer journey and in alignment with Renewals team, leverage risk insights and adoption action plans to increase customer retention rates.\nDevelop and maintain strong executive and technical influence with customers and understanding their business challenges and objectives.\nAdvocate for the customer within Cisco, ensuring their needs are met and that they receive a high-quality customer experience.\nAccountable for financials including services revenue and margin and making needed strategic financial decisions.\nBuild and implement Technical Adoption Plans in partnership with CSS that align with customer goals to maximize their technology investments and promote the full use of our technologies.\nBuild End-to-End (E2E) Customer plan aligning Delivery, Partner, Architecture, and Customer Success adoption strategy and execution.\nLead Customer Value Workshops and QBRs to review adoption progress and drive customers outcomes and benefits expected from Cisco products resulting in successful onboarding, adoption and renewals.\nBe a Technology Evangelist between customers and Cisco’s product teams, providing feedback to advise product development and enhancements.\nStay up-to-date with the latest Cisco technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends to provide expert mentorship to customers.\nWho You'll Work With \n In this role, you'll partner with Customer Technical and Operational Leaders and Executives, orchestrating CX resources across Delivery, Expert Care, Technical Support, Customer Success, Renewals, and Partners to drive value realization. You will collaborate with Sales, Renewals, the SDA team, and Deal Acceleration teams to assist in driving ARR and services growth.\nWho You Are\n You are a strategic problem solver with a strong background in customer success and technology adoption. You possess excellent communication and relationship-building skills, enabling you to develop and build partnerships with our customers. You're adept at managing financials, and making strategic investment decisions. With a proven track record of driving software and service adoption, mitigating renewal risks, and improve customer dedication. You have a deep understanding of Cisco, our technology, and the industry landscape, while acting as a Technology Advocate.\nMinimum Qualifications\n12+ years of related experience\nKnowledge of at least two technology architectures\nExperience driving successful customer adoption and delivery of professional services projects.\nExperience developing and maintaining strong executive relationships\nExperience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix organization \nExperience with budgeting and recurring revenue concepts, manage margin and reduce attrition.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep domain expertise within State, Local Government, and Higher Education (SLED) environments, public procurement cycles, and regulatory compliance standards.\nAdvanced knowledge of Cisco's software portfolio, telemetry, and platform capabilities.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $192,300.00 to $243,800.00 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.\nU.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.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-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\n\nExempt 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)\n\n80 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\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees 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:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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