Solutions Marketing Manager (33733)

Cisco Systems, Inc. • Irvine, CA

36d

About The Position

Splunk, a Cisco Company, is defining the next era of digital resilience for SecOps, ITOps, and engineering teams to work together, move at agentic speed, and harness AI responsibly. As part of the Cross-Portfolio Product Marketing Team, you'll play a pivotal role in bringing that vision to life. We're looking for an expert Cross-Portfolio Product Marketing Manager who can turn our Splunk + Cisco portfolio, AI innovations, and machine data story into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with our security, IT and engineering audience. You'll create content that powers our biggest moments - .conf, Splunk Go, Partner Summit and global field events - ensuring every activation delivers consistent, high-impact storytelling across the funnel. This is a highly cross-functional role that blends product marketing, messaging, storytelling, content activation and creativity across multiple channels - events, campaigns, and field programs. Sound like you? We want to hear from you!

Requirements

• 5+ years in product marketing, solution marketing or content marketing in B2B tech (or equivalent experience with a relevant BA/BS)
• Experience developing event content, presentations, and talk tracks

Nice To Haves

• Experience messaging to security, IT operations or engineering audiences-from practitioners to CISO/CIO/CTO
• Comfortable partnering with senior leaders to shape messaging and executive narratives
• Exceptional storyteller with the ability to turn complex tech into simple, compelling narratives
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams
• Solid understanding of security and IT domains (or willingness to ramp quickly)
• Strong executive presence with a creative, strategic, and bold point of view
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and keep teams on track
• Proficient with presentation and design tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Translate Splunk + Cisco's cross-portfolio value into clear, compelling narratives for security and IT executives and practitioners
• Identify and elevate storytelling opportunities around thought leadership themes like AI, digital resilience and data management
• Drive content for events and field activation, including briefs, keynote decks, talk tracks, and demos
• Build unified, ready-to-use assets that drive consistent, high-impact messaging across s, campaigns and customer conversations
• Support event content strategy and activate use cases and customer stories that demonstrate our combined value
• Partner with PMM, product, customer advocacy, campaigns, field marketing, and events to align and deliver cross-portfolio activations
• Manage workflows across multiple initiatives and serve as the connective tissue across teams

Benefits

• U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• 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
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's 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)
• 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
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees