Adoption & Activation Manager, AI For Sales

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🏄 California, Illinois, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $127.6k - $161.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Own the health, momentum, operating cadence, and system of record for Cisco’s AI for Sales Center of Excellence • Develop and implement tailored adoption plans for AI CoE sales initiatives, programs, and sales leadership personas • Design and execute communications, training, and support strategies for the global sales organization • Prioritize frontline-manager activation and create messaging and touchpoints that make managers visible AI role models • Own recurring senior-leadership briefings, including format, content, follow-through, and required actions • Design and sequence executive micro-learnings for Engagement Leads • Partner with communications and Activation & Adoption teams to embed AI for Sales into leadership forums, team meetings, and all-hands • Connect leadership outcomes such as forecast accuracy and customer-conversation quality to supporting AI capabilities • Provide executives with a coherent, current view of program performance across the AI portfolio • Translate complex adoption data into measurable actions for leaders • Track progress along an AI-maturity path and validate measurement signals • Orchestrate platform, communications, product, sales strategy, operations, and regional stakeholders • Influence without authority across a complex, global, matrixed organization • Use AI-enabled tools to improve program operations, reporting, and follow-through

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS or equivalent experience in Business, Communications, Marketing, Organizational Development, Sales Operations, or a related field • 9+ years in executive communications, go-to-market/sales strategy, program management, enablement, change management, or a related discipline • Experience owning a recurring, executive-facing program • Experience running leadership cadences, managing a system of record, and driving accountability to named owners and deadlines • Ability to translate complex, multi-source inputs into clear, compelling executive narratives • Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority • Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools in daily work • Genuine conviction about the value of generative AI and ability to build confidence with senior audiences • Experience supporting sales, go-to-market, customer success, or other revenue-facing organizations preferred • Experience with AI-powered tools, sales technology, or seller-productivity initiatives preferred • Chief-of-staff, executive-communications, or senior-leadership-facing program experience preferred • Ability to turn adoption data and field sentiment into actionable insight preferred • Proven experience or certification with change-management methodologies such as Prosci ADKAR or CCMP preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants, subject to eligibility and continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies • Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans • Opportunities to grow and build • Global collaboration with a worldwide network of experts