Responsibilities

• Hands-On Technical Demos & Collateral: Build and deliver technically rigorous product demonstrations, solution guides, white papers, and technical videos, that illustrate how Cisco AI operates seamlessly across networking, security, and observability environments. The key success factor is an understanding of networking operations team’s day to day job, combined with the ability to build dashboards with Cisco products that illustrate value to the user.
• Technical Strategy & Value Positioning: Define the technical product marketing strategy for Cisco AgenticOps and AI Canvas, translating complex architectural capabilities into clear, differentiated narratives and practitioner-focused use cases (such as automated troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and cross-domain remediation).
• Product & Engineering Validation: Partner directly with product management and engineering to validate product claims, ground launch narratives in technical evidence, and ensure outward messaging accurately reflects roadmap realities and customer proof points.
• Global Field & Partner Enablement: Equip sales teams, channel partners, and technical advocates with battlecards, competitive differentiation, discovery frameworks, and role-based conversation guides to accelerate enterprise adoption and pipeline growth.
• Market Evangelism & Technical Thought Leadership: Serve as a primary technical spokesperson for AgenticOps at Cisco Live, analyst briefings, webinars, and customer executive forums, while actively channeling direct practitioner feedback back into product strategy.
• Competitive Intelligence & Performance Metrics: Monitor competing AI-ops and network management solutions to sharpen Cisco's competitive edge and measure technical marketing impact through content engagement, field adoption, and market perception.

Requirements

• Experience with multi-domain networking architectures such as Campus, Data Center, Cloud or similar and operational workflows using enterprise management observability tools such as Splunk, Meraki or similar.
• Experience translating complex software architectures and AI capabilities into compelling technical messaging, practitioner use cases, white papers, and/or interactive demonstrations.
• Experience with building network and security related dashboards, specifically using ThousandEyes, Splunk, and/or other observability products.
• Technical presentation skills across network practitioners, enterprise customers, industry analysts, and/or executive leadership.
• Experience driving technical marketing initiatives across matrixed product management, engineering, and/or go-to-market teams.
• Bachelors and 8+ years of related experience, or Masters and 6+ years of related experience.

Preferred

• Extensive experience telling the Networking Product Story through demonstrations to customers in presales situations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop practitioner-level use cases and connect them to executive outcomes such as operational efficiency, resilience, risk reduction, and workforce productivity.
• Ability to form well-supported perspectives, influence without direct authority, and operate effectively in a rapidly evolving market.

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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
• - 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.