Technical Marketing Engineering Leader, Cisco Validated
About The Position
The Technical Marketing Engineering Leader on Cisco Validated helps turn Cisco’s One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof. The role leads validation work across integrated Cisco solutions by building and testing lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios and establish what is repeatable, supportable, and ready for the field. Working with Business Unit product managers and TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers, the leader scopes validation efforts, defines evidence requirements, identifies integration gaps, and translates findings into trusted assets for sales teams, architects, partners, and customers. The role brings structure to loosely defined requests and technical or organizational ambiguity, moving validation efforts from concept to credible proof. The work supports classic Cisco Validated Designs and expands into proof motions, integrated solutions, case studies, briefs, and reference architectures. The leader also mentors developing TMEs and external partner resources, sets technical direction, and helps establish repeatable validation practices and a durable cross-portfolio talent model. Technical scope may span networking, security, cloud and data center, AI infrastructure, collaboration, digital resilience, and lab validation methods.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years of hands-on technical experience designing, implementing, validating, troubleshooting, or supporting complex enterprise, service provider, cloud, security, collaboration, or data center technology environments.
- Experience in networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies, with depth in at least one major technical domain.
- Experience leading technical work across cross-functional stakeholders, including product, engineering, field, sales, or customer-facing teams.
- Experience translating ambiguous technical or business objectives into scoped validation plans, evidence requirements, findings, and field-ready outputs.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with shifting priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and complex technical tradeoffs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deep knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across multiple Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains.
- Ability to understand how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures and cross-portfolio outcomes.
- Strong general networking foundation, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
- Experience with AI infrastructure, AI-ready data center architectures, GPU cluster networking, high-performance fabrics, workload connectivity, or secure AI architecture concepts.
- Experience validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.
- Ability to communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to sales teams, partners, and product stakeholders through technical documentation, deployment guidance, reference architectures, and validation proof assets.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-portfolio validation efforts for integrated Cisco solutions aligned to Cisco’s strategic priorities.
- Define validation scope, success criteria, evidence requirements, and repeatability expectations for assigned initiatives.
- Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot complex lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
- Partner with BU product managers, BU TMEs, Architectural Sponsors, field architects, sales teams, and Cisco Validated peers to ensure outcomes are technically credible and field-relevant.
- Identify integration gaps, product limitations, operational considerations, and readiness concerns early enough to inform product, field, and leadership decisions.
- Produce technical evidence, lab notes, configuration artifacts, test results, known issues, and documentation inputs for validated outcomes.
- Mentor developing TMEs and external partner resources by setting technical direction, reviewing evidence quality, and reinforcing repeatable validation practices.
- Translate technical findings into field-facing assets, including proof materials, deployment guidance, case studies, briefs, and reference architectures.
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
- Paid holidays and a floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Personal wellness days
- Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
- Sick time off
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
- Potential grants of Cisco restricted stock units, subject to eligibility and terms
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
