Meet the Team

Join Cisco’s Networking Product Marketing team and help shape how customers understand and adopt the technologies that connect their workplaces. We work across product management, engineering, sales, and marketing to turn networking innovation into clear customer value, relevant stories, and effective go-to-market programs.

As a Product Marketing Manager supporting Cisco’s switching and campus connectivity portfolio, you’ll contribute to messaging, product launches, content, competitive positioning, and field enablement. You’ll work with an experienced, collaborative team while building your expertise in Cisco’s networking portfolio and the needs of our customers.

Your Impact

In this role, you will lead the go-to-market strategy for our switching and campus connectivity portfolio. By partnering across product, engineering, and sales, you will influence portfolio positioning, equip partners with high-impact enablement, and drive industry conversations that showcase Cisco’s resilient, AI-ready infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Messaging: Develop differentiated positioning for switching and campus solutions by translating complex technical capabilities into measurable customer outcomes.
• Launch & GTM Execution: Orchestrate integrated go-to-market programs, product launches, and announcements to maintain portfolio momentum.
• Content Creation & Enablement: Deliver high-impact sales assets, including presentations, talk tracks, and solution briefs, to empower field and partner teams.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with internal stakeholders, including product management, engineering, and digital marketing—to synthesize market insights and drive portfolio growth.
• Performance Tracking: Measure campaign effectiveness and industry developments to inform future messaging, competitive strategies, and overall business priorities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, skills, and experience
• 6+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, product management, solutions marketing, or related discipline
• 3+ years of experience working with networking, enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, or related technology portfolios
• Experience translating technical information into messaging for customers, sellers, or partners
• Experience collaborating across product management, engineering, sales, and marketing organizations
• Experience developing content and enablement materials that support product launches, customer engagement, or revenue growth

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with enterprise switching, campus networking, security, and cloud-managed ecosystems
• Knowledge of emerging trends including AI workloads, post-quantum cryptography, digital twins, and edge computing
• Proven success in project management, B2B storytelling, and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder organizations
• A resourceful, self-driven approach to solving obstacles and managing shifting market priorities
• Willingness to travel up to 25%

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:

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** 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.

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:

• .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 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.