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Senior Director, APAC Systems Engineering

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Senior Director, APAC Systems Engineering *Candidates for this role can be located in Australia, Singapore or Japan Role Overview The Senior Director,

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Senior Director, APAC Systems Engineering
*Candidates for this role can be located in Australia, Singapore or Japan

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The Senior Director, APAC Systems Engineering is a senior executive leader responsible for driving technical strategy, customer outcomes, and regional growth across Asia-Pacific. This role leads a high-performance Systems Engineering organization focused on cloud-managed networking, advanced enterprise architectures, and agentic AI-driven operations.
Operating as a strategic peer and partner to the SVP, APAC Sales, this leader co-owns regional success—aligning technical vision, go-to-market execution, and customer engagement to accelerate revenue growth, increase win rates, and deepen strategic customer relationships.
  • Lead and scale a geographically distributed APAC Systems Engineering organization
  • Define and execute the regional SE strategy in tight alignment with the SVP, APAC Sales and global SE leadership
  • Act as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the SVP, APAC Sales on pipeline strategy, account prioritization, and market expansion
  • Align technical resources to regional sales motions, strategic accounts, and growth initiatives
  • Establish a performance culture focused on customer outcomes, revenue impact, and execution excellence
  • Provide regional technical leadership across campus, wireless, data center, WAN, security, and cloud-managed networking architectures
  • Champion agentic AI-driven networking, including autonomous monitoring, optimization, remediation, and AI-assisted troubleshooting
  • Ensure SE teams can clearly articulate how AI agents and closed-loop systems reduce operational complexity and improve business outcomes
  • Position cloud-native and AI-powered platforms as strategic enablers for digital transformation
  • Serve as executive technical sponsor for the region’s most strategic customers and partners
  • Jointly engage with the SVP, APAC Sales in executive-level customer discussions, QBRs, and strategic account reviews
  • Lead complex architectural and transformation conversations with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and Heads of Infrastructure
  • Build trusted-advisor relationships that influence long-term customer roadmaps and platform adoption
  • Ensure consistent, high-quality technical execution across designs, demos, architectures, and POCs
  • Establish best practices for cloud-native networking, automation, APIs, and AI-integrated operations
  • Provide structured feedback to Product Management and Engineering based on APAC customer and market insights
  • Act as a visible regional thought leader on AI-powered, autonomous networking
  • Align with Global Systems Engineering leadership on strategy, standards, and operating models
  • Partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Services, and Support to improve customer experience and time-to-value
  • Contribute to global AI, platform, and innovation initiatives
  • Recruit, develop, and retain top cloud, networking, and AI-literate technical talent
  • Build leadership bench strength and succession plans across APAC
  • Coach senior SE leaders and engineers to operate effectively at both technical and business-outcome levels
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning in cloud, automation, and agentic AI
  • 15+ years in enterprise networking, cloud, infrastructure, or platform-based technology
  • 7+ years leading senior technical organizations, including managers of managers
  • Proven experience leading pre-sales or Systems Engineering teams in the APAC region
  • Demonstrated success partnering with senior sales leadership to drive revenue and growth
  • Deep understanding of enterprise networking (campus, wireless, data center, WAN, security)
  • Strong experience with cloud-managed and SaaS-based networking platforms
  • Working knowledge of agentic AI concepts, autonomous systems, and closed-loop operations
  • Ability to translate technical capability into executive-level business value
  • Strategic, collaborative leader with strong executive presence
  • Trusted partner to sales leadership with a shared ownership mindset
  • Excellent communicator across technical, business, and cultural boundaries
  • Customer-first, outcome-driven, and accountable

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    January 9, 2026
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