Technical Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Wireless

Cisco•San Jose, CA

7d•$154,900 - $225,300•Hybrid

About The Position

At Cisco, we empower our customers to realize their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our industry-leading networking platforms and rich portfolio of networking, security, and IoT products are the critical infrastructure CIOs are choosing to help their organizations thrive in the AI Era. To help us accelerate this mission and connect with networking practitioners in more meaningful ways, the Cisco Networking Product Marketing team is seeking a thoughtful and creative Technical Product Marketing Manager to support our Cisco Wireless portfolio. As part of the extended Cisco Networking Product Marketing team, you will help shape our product marketing and go-to-market strategy, develop differentiated positioning, and work closely with product, sales, and customer teams to help bring new solutions to market.

Requirements

4+ years of professional experience in Technical Product Marketing, Product Management, Solutions Engineering, Technical Marketing Engineering, Network Operations, or related enterprise technology roles.
2+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise wireless networking.
Experience developing technical marketing content and demonstrations, such as presentations, solution briefs, blogs, white papers, technical guides, or sales enablement materials.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki, cloud-managed networking, or enterprise wireless LAN environments.
Experience with wireless machine learning, analytics, assurance, or network-management capabilities.
Experience developing differentiated product messaging and positioning across products and solutions, including identifying and evangelizing unique, compelling customer value propositions.
A track record of high-quality writing, editing, and thought leadership for technical, executive, practitioner, and business audiences, including published work.
Experience influencing product, engineering, support, sales, customer, and creative teams to develop unified messaging, competitive enablement, and go-to-market assets.
Experience speaking at industry events or webinars and supporting enterprise or partner/channel sales motions.

Responsibilities

Develop deep expertise with Wi-Fi and other wireless standards, spanning a portfolio of hardware, software, and machine learning technology.
Collaborate across Product and Market Strategy teams to develop clear messaging and technical positioning that puts customer outcomes first.
Create compelling technical product content and thought leadership to engage with the largest enterprise customers in the world.
Deliver compelling and concise demonstrations of key product capabilities and use cases, live and recorded, and lead web content creation that accelerates customer understanding, interest, and purchase intent for Cisco Wireless solutions.
Serve as a trusted technical and market authority while working with the wider marketing team on go-to-market and demand-generation activities.
Bring structure to complex or ambiguous initiatives, proactively identifying what needs to happen and working across teams to drive decisions and outcomes.
Take the stage and evangelize Cisco Wireless at industry events.

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
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)