Posted:
3/22/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Location(s):
Minato, Japan
Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Customer Success & Support ⋅ Sales & Account Management
(English follows)
シスコでは、ソフトウェア中心の「リカーリング・レベニュー(継続収益)」モデルへの移行を加速させるため、世界最高のカスタマーエクスペリエンス(CX)チームを構築しています。 日本におけるCX組織の「カスタマーサクセススペシャリスト(CSS)リーダー」は、CSSチームの指揮を執る重要な役割を担います。CSSチームは、ターゲットを絞った顧客エンゲージメントを通じて、製品への理解を深め、業界のベストプラクティスを共有し、製品の定着化(アダプション)とビジネス価値の最大化を推進します。
あなたは、日本におけるCX組織の中で、高いパフォーマンスを発揮し、周囲から信頼されるCSSチームを編成・リードしていただきます。カスタマーライフサイクル全体を通じてお客様を成功へと導くことがこの組織の目的です。お客様のニーズを深く理解し、チームを育成することで、お客様に感動(Customer Delight)を届けてください。
What You’ll Do
At Cisco, we are building the world's best Customer Experience (CX) Team to accelerate the company transition to a recurring revenue software-centric model. The Customer Success Specialist (CSS) Leader role within Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) organization is responsible for leading a team of Customer Success Specialists (CSSs) who own delivery of targeted engagements intended to increase product awareness, share industry best practices, and drive overall product adoption and business value.
You will form and lead a high-performing, well-respected team of CSSs within Japan Customer Experience organization which exists to make Cisco's customers successful across the customer life cycle. You will know your customers needs well and can help develop your team, so they delight our customers.
Who You’ll Work With
· Build, mentor, and coach your team to drive productivity and improve business value
· Support the development and execution of Theater/Regional policy, processes, and programs for technical adoption
· Seek to evangelize to internal and external audiences about the Customer Success motion
· Build a very strong interlock with Sales, CX Delivery and Renewals to provide an industry-leading customer experience for Cisco customers on their adoption journey.
· Contribute to product and offer improvement by providing regular lifecycle feedback to internal Cisco entities e.g. BE, Sales, CS Leadership
· Consult and establish trusted advisor status within the CS leadership teams
· A willingness to travel as needed (~10-25%)
Who You Are
With strong experience of both leading teams through transformation and a passion for customer delight, you have shown the ability to excite, and lead a cross-functional team to deliver strong outcomes. You passionately advocate for customers, and you are obsessed with customer success.
You are an excellent teacher and mentor to your team. You can convey the most complex concepts in the simplest of terms. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment.
Requirements:
· In-depth understanding of Security technologies and solutions. Prior design, implementation, and operations experience is strongly preferred. Direct the CSS team in customization of CX Programs to the needs of the Security customers.
· Strong knowledge of the overall Cisco portfolio and our key competitors
· Extensive experience in customer facing consultative roles. Prior direct Security experience highly desired
· Ability to demonstrate the impact of the CSS team on the business (quantitative and qualitative metrics)
· Detailed understanding of the fundamentals of Services aligned to offer specialization areas, including onboarding, troubleshooting, providing internal/external technical presentations, cross training, features and use cases
· Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills
· Bachelors + 12 years of relevant experience
· 4+ years of experience in a people leader role with direct reports
· Experience leading technical architecture or engineering teams
· Fluent Japanese and business level English
Why Cisco: At Cisco, we know that technology can connect us, empower us, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free hardworking people to focus on their mission. As the fastest growing cloud-managed networking team in the world, our products and technology architecture are changing the face of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We recognise that diverse teams make the strongest teams, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
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.
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Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1984
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Seed
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