Technical Marketing Engineering, Security Innovation

Cisco•San Jose, CA

1d•$191,400 - $323,600

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity to join an emerging new team within our Cisco Security Chief Technology Office (CTO) that is at the forefront of innovation in workload orchestration, building the next generation of infrastructure management tools that focus on ease of use and integrate identity, security, networking and management services across Cisco’s entire portfolio. In close collaboration with the Security CTO office, we are dedicated to delivering robust, scalable solutions that challenge the status quo and set new industry standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience or equivalent experience
Experience in enterprise customer-facing roles with a strong emphasis on pre-sales engagement.
Experience presenting to both technical architects and C-level executives, including leading executive briefings (EBCs) and/or presenting at industry conferences, and other customer events
3+years of experience with enterprise datacenter virtual infrastructure like hypervisors (VMware, Nutanix, KVM), Kubernetes, kubevirt/kvm, virtual and physical networking.

Nice To Haves

Experience partnering with hyperscalers
Strong technical leadership experience in defining product strategy for networking and security in cloud-native environments.
Demonstrated leadership in mentoring and coaching technical sales teams, including leading enablement programs or structured training initiatives.
Consistent track record of working with product and marketing teams to integrate customer feedback into product strategy and messaging, with examples such as published whitepapers, product launches, or customer case studies.
Ability to develop high-impact customer-facing content, including technical demos, presentations, and competitive analyses.
Established presence in industry events, conferences, and thought leadership forums.

Responsibilities

Engage with enterprise customers, effectively communicating the value of Cisco’s workload mobility tooling during all phases of the sales process, including EBCs, sales calls, competitive analysis, and helping the customer to build an internal business case.
Shape product strategy by providing field insights to product and marketing teams, ensuring alignment with customer needs and competitive positioning.
Help to formulate and lead strategic initiatives that will drive the future direction of Cisco’s strategy for mobility and management of datacenter workloads (legacy applications, modern applications, AI/ML) across all types of infrastructure (private and public clouds).
Develop and strengthen key technology partnerships in the datacenter workload space, including public cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) and local virtual infrastructure including hypervisors and Kubernetes kubevirt and influencing product integrations and go-to-market strategies.
Mentor and coach sales engineering teams to ensure alignment with Cisco’s workload mobility and management product strategy and messaging during customer engagements.

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
grants of Cisco restricted stock units
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
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
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)