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Technical Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Wireless

Cisco · Birmingham, AL · 3 wk ago
Sales$155k–$225k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. First, remove boilerplate: "The application window is expected to close on: 10/15/2026" - that's metadata; we can fold into short p or drop. "This position will require up to 25% travel." That's a detail; maybe include under Responsibilities or a separate note. "Posted salary range is for the San Jose, CA area - other markets will have a different range." That's pay info; we have salary ranges later. "Meet the Team" paragraph: that's about the role/team; could be About the role. Then "Your Impact" bullet list: responsibilities. Then "Minimum Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications": these are qualifications. Then "Why Cisco?" maybe benefits? Actually it's company culture; could be About the role or maybe Benefits? But we have Benefits section only if posting actually states them. There's later a benefits description: "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." Also details about PTO etc. So we have Benefits content. Pay: salary ranges listed: starting salary range posted for this position is $154,900.00 to $225,300.00 and reflects projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Then location-specific ranges: New York City Metro Area $154,900.00 - $259,100.00; Non-Metro New York State & Washington State $136,500.00 - $228,300.00. Also mention for Illinois time off program but that's benefits. Schedule: travel up to 25% travel; maybe schedule includes travel requirement. Also maybe mention remote? Not given. So we could include Schedule section with travel requirement. Skills: maybe we can extract from qualifications: experience developing technical marketing content, demonstrations, etc. Could be Skills. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading; we don't have title. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment, no html/body tags, no markdown fences. Let's craft sections:

About the role

At Cisco, we empower our customers to realize their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our industry-leading networking platforms and rich portfolio of networking, security, and IoT products are the critical infrastructure CIOs are choosing to help their organizations thrive in the AI Era. To help us accelerate this mission and connect with networking practitioners in more meaningful ways, the Cisco Networking Product Marketing team is seeking a thoughtful and creative Technical Product Marketing Manager to support our Cisco Wireless portfolio. As part of the extended Cisco Networking Product Marketing team, you will 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 solutions to market.

That's good.

Responsibilities

  • Develop deep expertise with Wi-Fi and other wireless standards, spanning a portfolio of hardware, software, and machine learning technology.
  • Collaborate across Product and Market Strategy teams to develop clear messaging and technical positioning that puts customer outcomes first.
  • Create compelling technical product content and thought leadership to engage with the largest enterprise customers in the world.
  • Deliver compelling and concise demonstrations of key product capabilities and use cases, live and recorded, and lead web content creation that accelerates customer understanding, interest, and purchase intent for Cisco Wireless solutions.
  • Serve as a trusted technical and market authority while working with the wider marketing team on go-to-market and demand-generation activities.
  • Bring structure to complex or ambiguous initiatives, proactively identifying what needs to happen and working across teams to drive decisions and outcomes.
  • Take the stage and evangelize Cisco Wireless at industry events.
  • Position requires up to 25% travel.
We added travel as responsibility.

Requirements

Maybe combine Minimum Qualifications as Requirements. But we have also Qualifications section. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need both Requirements and Qualifications sections. We can put Minimum Qualifications under Requirements, and Preferred Qualifications under Qualifications. Thus:

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional experience in Technical Product Marketing, Product Management, Solutions Engineering, Technical Marketing Engineering, Network Operations, or related enterprise technology roles.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise wireless networking.
  • Experience developing technical marketing content and demonstrations, such as presentations, solution briefs, blogs, white papers, technical guides, or sales enablement materials.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Cisco Wireless, Cisco Meraki, cloud-managed networking, or enterprise wireless LAN environments.
  • Experience with wireless machine learning, analytics, assurance, or network-management capabilities.
  • Experience developing differentiated product messaging and positioning across products and solutions, including identifying and evangelizing unique, compelling customer value propositions.
  • A track record of high-quality writing, editing, and thought leadership for technical, executive, practitioner, and business audiences, including published work.
  • Experience influencing product, engineering, support, sales, customer, and creative teams to develop unified messaging, competitive enablement, and go-to-market assets.
  • Experience speaking at industry events or webinars and supporting enterprise or partner/channel sales motions.
Now Skills: maybe we can extract from responsibilities/qualifications: technical product marketing, messaging, content creation, demonstrations, etc. But we might not need Skills if content overlaps. However we could create a Skills section summarizing key skills: technical expertise in Wi-Fi/wireless standards, product marketing, content creation, presentation/demos, cross-functional collaboration, travel. But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can list skills that are explicitly mentioned. The posting mentions: "Develop deep expertise with Wi-Fi and other wireless standards", "Create compelling technical product content", "Deliver compelling and concise demonstrations", "Serve as a trusted technical and market authority", "Bring structure to complex or ambiguous initiatives", "Take the stage and evangelize". Also qualifications mention experience developing technical marketing content, etc. So we can create Skills section with bullet list of those skills. But we must ensure not to repeat same content as other sections; but it's okay if overlapping as long as we preserve all substantive info. However we risk duplication. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to avoid duplication by placing details only once. We already have responsibilities and qualifications covering many of those. Skills could be optional; but we need to decide if we include it. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we skip Skills if not needed. However we have to include sections only when posting has real specific content for it. Does the posting have a distinct "Skills" section? Not explicitly; but we could infer skills from qualifications. But better to not create a Skills section unless there is explicit skills list. There isn't. So we omit Skills. Benefits: we have details.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Paid time off: 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 base salary.
But note: some of these are from the "Why Cisco?" and later benefits section. We must ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. This is fine. Pay: we need Pay section.

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $154,900.00 to $225,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Location‑specific ranges:

  • New York City Metro Area: $154,900.00 – $259,100.00
  • Non‑Metro New York State & Washington State: $136,500.00 – $228,300.00
We could also mention that for quota-based sales roles the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined, but this role is not sales; still we can include if relevant. The posting says: "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." Since this is not a sales role, maybe we can omit. But it's still part of pay info; we could include as note. However to avoid unnecessary detail, maybe we keep only the relevant. Schedule: we have travel up to 25% travel; also maybe mention work schedule? Not given. So we can put travel under Schedule.

Schedule

This position requires up to 25% travel.

Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: "Meet the Team" we used in About the role. "Your Impact" we used as Responsibilities. "Minimum Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications" used. "Why Cisco?" we used partly in About the role (first paragraph) and maybe we could add a short paragraph about Cisco's mission but we already used that. The "Why Cisco?" paragraph about revolutionizing etc could be included in About the role as well; but we already used the first paragraph. Could add second paragraph about Cisco's mission etc. Let's incorporate that into About the role to preserve all info. Thus About the role could be two paragraphs: first about mission and team, second about

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