About the Role
As a Product Marketing Manager for networking services (Campus, Branch, Data Center, IoT) at Cisco, you will integrate deep market insight and technical acumen to drive product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market execution. Your goal is to ensure Cisco’s offerings are understood, wanted, and adopted by our target audiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end marketing strategy for multiple products and/or services across multiple portfolios.
- Architect comprehensive GTM strategies for complex, multi-product or high-priority launches, and/or solution roll-outs or market expansions.
- Define the overarching portfolio narrative and thought-leadership themes.
- Prepare presentations, demos, briefs, and other marketing/sales collaterals as needed.
- Support the global enablement strategy for a portfolio.
- Align sales motions, routes to market, and partner models to ensure field readiness.
- Lead structured intelligence programs (such as market surveillance and win/loss analysis) to inform strategy.
- Align business units on portfolio priorities.
- Influence product roadmaps and capacity allocation to maximize market impact and customer value.
- Lead and support cross-functional initiatives (launches, events, digital journeys, competitive plays).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 8+ years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience creating product vision/direction via compelling positioning and messaging.
- Proven experience launching new products and growing to a mature business.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in sales discussions.
- Strong ability to influence and work cross-functionally.
- Strong domain and technical knowledge of networking services and products.
- Exceptional writing and presentation skills.
- Skilled in applying AI tools and prompt engineering best practices to optimize daily tasks and improve individual and team output.
- Previous experience in IT networking B2B marketing.
- Business development experience preferred.
- Ability to deliver results in global, matrixed environments comprised of internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally 25% of the time.
- Professional and technical certifications in product marketing, AI, or Security (e.g. CCNA, CCST).
Skills
- Product Marketing
- Go-To-Market Strategy
- Positioning
- Messaging
- Content Strategy
- Launch Execution
- Competitive Analysis
- Networking Services
- AI Tools
- Prompt Engineering
Location
- U.S.
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of related experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $135,800.00 - $198,800.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
- $168,800.00 - $277,400.00 (New York City Metro Area)
- $148,800.00 - $248,200.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 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
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
- Grants of Cisco restricted stock units
About the Company
- The Customer Experience (CX) Marketing team’s role is to differentiate and elevate Cisco as an advanced customer experience that is personalized, proactive, and predictive.
- The Product Marketing team has a mix of high-performing product marketers and go-to-market strategists, encompassing experience across positioning, messaging, content strategy and development, launch execution, and competitive analysis.
- WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.
- Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential.
- Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage.
- Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
- We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people.
- One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference.
- Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
- Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet.
- Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best.
- We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- #WeAreCisco
