Director, Technical Marketing Jobs

What You'll Do
The Networking Experiences (NX) TME team is looking for a Director of Technical Marketing Engineering (TME) to lead the team of TMEs that drives technical strategy and customer adoption of Cisco's DNA Center intent-based networking controller. This leader will guide a team of around 15 TMEs who are working on inbound and outbound technical product management across all domains of Cisco DNAC, including NetOps, AIOps, DevOps, and the DNAC platform itself. The right candidate will be able to manage a team of technical talent, drive technical strategy with product managers and engineering, and define product requirements for Cisco DNA Center. You will also drive technical enablement for Cisco DNAC, leading the collateral strategy and organizing events such as Cisco Live and ENVT (our bi-annual sales event.)
As a leader of leaders, you will set the tone for developing a strong and diverse team through talent acquisition, capability development programs, communities of practice, learning initiatives, and rotations to transform the ways of working and achieve performance aligned with the NX business needs now and in the future.
Who You'll Work With
Cisco’s NX team defines and delivers market-leading campus solutions to enable transformational customer outcomes. The technical marketing team consists of highly motivated and talented professionals with a gift for explaining Cisco's message and driving product development. You will work closely with your team of TMEs and others across the Cisco Networking group, product managers, sales, and engineering, to develop and sell world-class campus software technology. You will work with senior leaders and executives to drive product strategy and adoption.
Who You Are
You're low ego, hungry and forward-thinking. An inspirational leader with 10+ years’ related experience in the associated technology industry and 5+ years’ management experience, ideally leading technical teams. You have a strong knowledge of Cisco products including Cisco DNA Center, and/or proven experience with competitive offerings.

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion, and a track record of building diverse teams.
• Wide knowledge of campus networking technologies and markets.
• Demonstrate the necessary skills to negotiate issues with peers, partners and customers using a Win/Win philosophy.
• 5+ years supervisory/managerial experience, ideally leading technical teams.
• Some knowledge of Cisco competitor offerings in the campus.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; Strong presentation skills and executive presence, with the ability to address and influence both executive and mid-level management audiences.
• Bachelors Degree + 15 years related experience or Masters Degree + 12 years related experience
• Ability to clearly and accurately communicate technical concepts to engineering and executive audiences.
• Mentor everyone, from graduates to senior technical folks supporting movement and encouraging a richly diverse workforce.
• Be a talent magnet, attracting and retaining the brightest and the best talent in the industry
• Domestic/International travel required ~25%.
• Experience managing managers and director-level reports.
• Ability to understand, formulate, and drive technical strategy with product managers and engineering. Experience leading and developing leaders
• Position "end to end" solutions and articulate Cisco strategies to senior customer executives.

Areas of technical expertise:

• Campus networking technologies, including Ethernet switching and WiFi.
• Some knowledge of networking security, in particular device classification and profiling, and end user authentication technologies such as 802.1x.
• Core networking protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS.
• Networking management and controllers, including SDN, configuration management, device lifecycle management, network assurance.
• DevOps workflows and tools, including CI/CD and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Why Cisco

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