Product Growth Strategist (SSE, SASE, SD-WAN, Firewall) Cisco Security Product Marketing - Military Veterans

Application window has been extended and expected to close on 11/15/2024

Location: San Jose, California or US Remote

What You'll Do

Cisco Security is seeking an expert cybersecurity product manager with phenomenal storytelling skills and deep market insights who is ready to open a new career chapter as a product growth strategist in Cisco Security product marketing. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving business growth by defining key differentiators, developing product messaging, and crafting foundational product content that breaks through the noise of the cybersecurity market to land impactful with our target audience. In addition to communicating directly with our customers, you will work closely with Product Marketing Managers to ensure that this differentiated message is carried through into all of our touchpoints with the market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define Differentiators: Work closely with product management, engineering, and the field to identify and articulate the outstanding value propositions of Cisco Security products, ensuring they are communicated and understood by the target audience.
• Develop Core Product Messaging: Craft compelling and consistent messaging around the differentiators that align with the overall product strategy and resonate with customers and partners.
• both business and technical decision-makers.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing Managers: Partner closely with Product Marketing Managers to translate core messaging into engaging content that drives the customer journey, including marketing campaigns, webinars, and product launches.

Who You Are

You are a dynamic and seasoned cybersecurity product manager with a flair for storytelling and an in-depth understanding of the market landscape. Your ability to distill complex technical details into compelling narratives sets you apart, making you an ideal fit for the role. You are passionate about crafting and delivering engaging stories that highlight the outstanding value propositions of products. Your presentations capture the attention of both business and technical decision-makers, making ideas accessible and impactful.

Additionally, you enjoy and have a consistent record of working cross-functionally-including with product management, engineering, marketing, and field teams-to achieve outsized impact.

Our minimum requirements:

• 10+ years in enterprise/b2b tech with at least 5 years of product management experience, including at least 3 in cybersecurity
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related fields

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with Security Service Edge (SSE), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), SD-WAN and/or Firewall
• Product marketing experience
• MBA

Why Cisco?




#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

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