The Cisco Wireless team is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) to support product management activities for our industry-leading wireless business which is 50% of the market-share in enterprise wireless. This team is responsible for both Cisco cloud managed (Meraki) and on prem wireless. In this role, you would be driving a wide number of high visibility initiatives, including but not limited to: evolving a winning product line strategy, building software differentiation, and conceptualizing and completing a strategy to develop adjacent product lines to create the next big disruption. You will help us build our vision for #simplicity while bringing together Wireless, security, AI, and intelligent API ecosystems. You will be instrumental in the expansion of our large campus wireless capabilities through collaboration with the various product teams for the extended Full Stack portfolio (e.g., MS, MX, MV, MT, Dashboard, Catalyst, Switching, and ISE)
Cisco is changing the way the industry thinks about networking, and you will lead the charge to continue the evolution. You will collaborate with forward-thinking engineers and customers to help ensure that we continue to have the best wireless product portfolio in the industry in addition to the Cisco #Fullstack. You will develop technical expertise, deliver high-impact presentations, and have a real passion for evangelizing simplicity through cloud-first networking technology. You will work closely with the executive team to establish a winning strategy, and collaborate with our outstanding sales, marketing, and partner teams to ensure continued market adoption and rapid growth!
Every day is truly unlike the one before. Your penchant for approaching problems with creative solutions, passion for engineering, and ambition to be part of an innovative and inspiring team, are the tools to success. Remote working within the UK or EU and 15-20% global traveling flexibility will be required.
Responsibilities:
- Drive development and creation of impactful technical collateral to better enable our support, sales engineers, customers, and partners
- Close collaboration with engineering teams through design, testing, and product launch
- Run beta and pilot programs
- Meet with customers and prospects, share our vision, and understand their needs
- Acting as a strong advocate on behalf of our partners to internal Product teams to ensure we are all aligned on completing our mission
- Review and prioritize customer-reported bugs and critical issues and establish a plan to address them
Minimum requirements:
- Multi-functional experience across product management, software engineering and marketing and having worked with different parts of an organization (internal/external customer support, channel partners, sales or systems engineering)
- 7+ years of experience with WI-FI and associate areas (IT administration, technical marketing/sales/support, or similar)
- Understanding of and experience with cloud technologies and software development
- Knowledge of network technologies like DHCP, DNS, network topologies, etc.
- Ability to easily communicate complicated concepts to non-technical audience
Bonus points:
- Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with Linux systems administration and scripting languages like Ruby, Python, Javascript, or similar
- An ambitious, can-do attitude with a strong sense of product quality
- Loves solving technical problems in creative ways
- Curious nature and desire to tinker: you want to pull things apart to see how they work
- Ability to distill complicated ideas to just the right number of words
- Experienced with technical writing and querying data using tools such as Salesforce/SQL
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