Product Marketing Manager, AI Infrastructure & Software Ecosystem
About The Position
The Product Marketing organization powering Cisco's Data Center, Cloud, and Infrastructure portfolio operates as a specialized, centralized Product Marketing team within Portfolio Management. They maintain a close, strategic dotted-line alignment to the engineering and business units building next-generation compute, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations platforms. Their mission is to accelerate customer adoption of AI-ready data centers by unifying computing, high-performance networking, distributed security, and cloud management into full-stack systems. They collaborate directly with premier technology partners to translate complex hardware and software architectures into market-leading solutions, compelling storytelling, and high-impact Go-to-Market (GTM) motions that shape the future of enterprise infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, combined with 8+ years of experience in product marketing, solutions marketing, or technical marketing within enterprise technology
- Experience in developing, planning and executing end-to-end product launches or go-to-market (GTM) campaigns for enterprise B2B hardware, software, or cloud solutions.
- Experience marketing enterprise data center infrastructure, compute platforms, virtualization, cloud-native technologies, or hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
- Experience developing joint go-to-market (GTM) programs, co-branded marketing collateral, or launch campaigns with strategic ISV and technology ecosystem partners (such as Nutanix, Red Hat, or VMware).
- Experience creating technical B2B marketing deliverables, including solution overviews, customer-facing slide decks, white papers, messaging frameworks, and/or sales enablement collateral.
- Experience presenting technical product concepts and business value propositions at customer briefings, webinars, industry events, or partner conferences.
Nice To Haves
- Experience navigating matrixed cross-functional environments, bridging centralized marketing organizations with dedicated product and engineering business units.
- Experience utilizing market research, customer win/loss data, and competitive telemetry to construct differentiated market positioning.
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) or an advanced degree in a technical or business discipline.
Responsibilities
- Lead joint marketing strategy and campaign execution with strategic partners (Nutanix, Red Hat, and ISVs), aligning roadmaps and joint value propositions across AI, virtualization, and edge computing.
- Author and produce high-impact marketing content, including pitch decks, solution briefs, product videos, analyst validation reports, interactive digital content and customer success stories.
- Partner with sales enablement to develop and validate field-ready sales kits, competitive positioning guides, objection-handling battlecards, and training modules for Cisco and partner sales forces.
- Drive end-to-end launch cycles for new joint solutions, orchestrating cross-functional execution across digital marketing, growth marketing, public relations, and event teams.
- Serve as a subject matter spokesperson for Cisco compute and partner solutions at industry conferences, customer executive briefings, webinars, and partner summits.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (Non-exempt employees)
- 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) (Exempt employees)
- 80 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
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
