Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager - AI Data Center Networking Infrastructure

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Remote United States

Meet the Team

As AI accelerates innovation, data centers are evolving to handle the exponential growth in workloads, requiring advanced infrastructure, greater efficiency, and cutting-edge technologies like GPUs and high-performance networks. This transformation demands agility, scalability, and creativity, especially in how we communicate these advancements to the world.

As a member of the Cisco Data Center Networking Product Marketing team you will partner across Cisco's larger marketing organization, primarily with the integrated marketing team, business unit team, and sales team to execute against our global strategy.

Your Impact

• As a Product Marketing Manager for Cisco switching infrastructure products, you will create compelling messaging, positioning, and marketing content to support joint data center switching and solutions with technology partners that will help customers democratize AI infrastructure and accelerate adoption.
• Collaborate with technology partners to develop and execute product marketing plans.
• Create messaging and positioning to guide marketing campaigns and accelerate sales efforts.
• Lead marketing asset development (e.g., website, videos, solution overviews, blogs, presentations, infographics, etc.).
• Develop domain expertise on Cisco data center switches
• Serve as a trusted marketing source, contributor and author while collaborating with the wider marketing team on go-to-market and demand generation activities.
• Develop customer facing presentations that reflect customers care about and use cases for your solution.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization.
• Present to both internal and external audiences at conferences, events, and for analyst engagement.
• We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our fast-paced, culture-first marketing team-someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, embraces change, and is passionate about driving impactful campaigns in the ever-evolving technology landscape.
• Messaging mastery : You have an outstanding ability to explain value and benefits derived from technical concepts to all types of audiences.
• Experience in articulating the value / benefits of technical concepts in the context of solving customer problems or business challenges.
• A domain expert in security, securing data center infrastructure , and secure workloads
• Expertise in any of these categories a plus : data center and data center fabric architectures and technologies, generative AI, large language models, use cases and associated topics shaping AI, hyperconverged and converged infrastructure, virtualization, Kubernetes, containerization, configuration and automation tools.
• Deep audience knowledge : You are a quick study, committed to knowing your ecosystem, markets, industries, buyers and competition better than anyone.
• Demonstrated ability to execute on assigned projects with minimal direction, exercise sound business and organizational judgment, and collaborate with team members at all levels across a highly matrixed organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $191,400.00 to $281,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and / or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows :

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below :

New York City Metro Area :

$191,400.00 - $323,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$176,100.00 - $287,900.00