Senior Ecosystem Adoption Manager

Application window is expected to close on 11/27/2024

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About Us

Cisco Spaces revolutionizes how businesses interact with physical spaces by seamlessly connecting people, devices, and data through a sophisticated cloud platform. With deep integration into Cisco infrastructure, we empower IT and business teams to achieve important outcomes on a global scale.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an Ecosystem Adoption Manager to drive the growth and success of our teams partner ecosystem, with a special focus on Smart Spaces partnerships. This role is crucial in implementing our strategic vision, improving partner relationships, and delivering significant business impact through joint value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and Implement Ecosystem Strategy: Define and complete a tiered partner strategy
• Align Ecosystem Roadmap: Collaborate with platform product managers and engineers to be responsible for the ecosystem roadmap, ensuring alignment with our platform capabilities and business objectives.
• Influence Ecosystem Programs: Contribute to and influence other ecosystem initiatives within Cisco, demonstrating partnerships to amplify impact across the organization.
• Business Impact through Partnerships
• Drive Partner Engagement and Adoption: Identify high-potential partners and lead initiatives that improve partner adoption of Cisco Spaces solutions, resulting in increased customer adoption and revenue growth.
• Improve Customer Success: Collaborate closely with partners to ensure successful integration and implementation of Smart Spaces solutions, directly impacting customer happiness and retention.
• Relationship Management
• Build Strategic Partnerships: Establish and nurture strong relationships with partners, finding opportunities for collaboration and mutual growth.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, marketing, business development, engineering, and sales teams both internally and within partner organizations to drive joint initiatives.
• Executive Communication: Act as a liaison to senior leadership, effectively communicating strategies, insights, and progress to ensure alignment and support.
• Execution
• Build Compelling Presentations: Develop pitches, slides, and mockups to successfully communicate the value of the Cisco Spaces ecosystem and encourage partner dedication.
• Demonstrate Joint Value Propositions: Build proof-of-concept applications or demos that showcase how Cisco Spaces enhances partner solutions, directly influencing partnership outcomes.
• Strategic Problem-Solving: Balance critical thinking with practical execution, proactively addressing challenges to achieve business objectives without the need for daily oversight.

Qualifications

• Strategic Partner Management: Demonstrated success in leading partnerships that drive significant business growth within the technology or SaaS industries.
• Technical Competence: Strong understanding of IoT, Smart Spaces, application development, and cloud technologies.
• Impactful Communication
• Executive Engagement: Exceptional ability to communicate and influence at all levels, including with technical teams and senior executives.
• Relationship Building: Skills in building strategic relationships and collaborating across diverse teams and organizations.
• Strategic Execution
• Autonomous Leadership: Self-starter with the ability to interpret executive vision and translate it into actionable, impactful plans.
• Hands-On Approach: Resourceful and proactive, capable of developing presentations, mockups, and proof-of-concept applications to drive initiatives forward.
• Collaborative Mentality
• Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to work optimally across product management, business development, marketing, sales, and engineering teams.
• Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you!

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

About Cisco

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's transforming our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

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