Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Secure Routing

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    All US remote
  • Area of Interest
    Marketing and Communications
  • Compensation Range
    129600 USD - 207900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Network (incl: IIoT, SD-WAN, & ThousandEyes), Networking
  • Job Id
    1441888

The application window is expected to close on: 6/15/25.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Cisco Networking is an industry leader providing intelligent network solutions for organizations to securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere. We empower organizations everywhere – from local libraries to global hotels – to focus on their mission and have technology that simply works. Cisco has been named #1 Best Company to Work For in the U.S. by Fortune in 2023!

Meet the Team

To help us accelerate this mission and connect with customers in more meaningful ways, Cisco’s Product Marketing is seeking a thoughtful and creative Product Marketing Manager to support our Routing portfolio.

In this role, you’ll become the subject matter expert for Routing. As a part of the extended Cisco Networking Product Marketing team, you’ll 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 routing solutions to market.

Your Impact

  • Develop deep expertise with routing and other Wide Area Network standards, spanning a portfolio of hardware, software, and machine learning technology.
  • Collaborate across marketing, product, and sales teams to develop a comprehensive positioning and messaging strategy that puts customer outcomes first
  • Identify and lead critical and complex marketing initiatives that increase awareness, interest, and purchase intent for Routing solutions
  • Create compelling product content and technical thought leadership to engage with the largest enterprise customers in the world and a wide range of audiences, from executive to technical practitioners
  • Stay on top of the competitive landscape and equip our sales and partner teams with competitive intelligence
  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to influence and understand the product roadmap—including the ability to present roadmaps to customer executives
  • Analyze quantitative product, pipeline, and marketing data to guide product development and go-to-market decisions across the team
  • Serve as a trusted technical and marketing advisor for Routing, while working with the wider marketing team on go-to-market and demand generation activities
  • Take the stage and evangelize the Routing vision at first and third-party events

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product marketing experience, with 3+ years of hands-on experience in the networking space
  • Proven track record of developing differentiated and compelling messaging and positioning, and sales enablement and customer-facing content across written, presentation, and digital media
  • Ability to synthesize complex technical topics and market dynamics and develop novel points of view that can reinforce Cisco thought leadership.
  • Experience building competitive sales enablement and marketing content for a technical product
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills—both to internal and external audiences
  • Ability to construct, draft, copyedit, and publish high-quality written content (blogs, position papers, abstracts) for a wide array of audiences (technical, executive, practitioner, business, etc)
  • Working across written, presentation, and digital media to create compelling sales enablement and customer-facing content that requires minimal design support
  • A passion for being the voice of the customer. You’re always on the lookout for ways to better understand the customer and bring a customer-first view of the market and challenges to messaging and positioning.
  • A storyteller at heart. You’re a clear communicator and can balance written and verbal content with ease.
  • You delight in learning technical complexities and love explaining new technology and trends to customers—finding novel and relatable ways to communicate solutions to customers
  • You’re comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and business-focused teams and executives
  • Resourceful, proactive, and creative in finding ways to drive business growth
  • You are willing to travel as needed, up to 25%

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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. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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