Technical Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Wireless

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.

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.

Preferred

• 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.

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