Product Marketing Manager – AI Networking - Full-time

Position Overview

Join a high-velocity, engineering-aligned product marketing organization at the intersection of AI infrastructure and data center networking. Our team collaborates deeply across product, engineering, integrated marketing, and sales to influence how Cisco shows up for AI Infrastructure builders, operators, and partners shaping the future of AI-ready data centers.

We are looking for a storyteller who loves engaging with technical audiences and can translate complex innovations into narratives that resonate with developers, architects, and decision-makers alike. As a Product Marketing Manager supporting Cisco’s AI-ready data center networking platforms, you will champion messaging, narratives, and content that help developers and operators adopt Cisco technologies with confidence. You will influence the way Cisco appears in the AI ecosystem by collaborating with engineering, developer relations, technology partners, and cloud-native communities—ultimately shaping how customers build, optimize, and scale modern workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Craft clear narratives that connect Cisco switching and data center architectures to real-world AI/ML, distributed training, inference, and cloud-native use cases.
• Translate technical innovations into value propositions that resonate with both technical and business audiences.
• Create differentiated messaging against key industry trends, competitive approaches, and emerging open-source technologies.
• Represent Cisco in forums such as GitHub, Slack/Discord communities, conferences, partner events, and webinars.
• Drive product launches across data center networking platforms and partner solutions—including AI fabrics, accelerated networking, container networking, observability, and automation.
• Develop crisp, compelling assets such as solution briefs, demo scripts, blogs, videos, event talks, infographics, and partner co-marketing materials.
• Collaborate with key partners like NVIDIA, Red Hat, hyperscalers, Kubernetes ecosystem partners, and observability platforms to define joint narratives.
• Support integrations and partnerships relevant to AI workloads, container networking, Cilium/eBPF ecosystems, and distributed training stacks.
• Present at external conferences, partner events, and analyst briefings to establish Cisco as a leader in AI networking, cloud-native compute, and developer-first architectures.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in Product Marketing, Product Management, Developer Relations, or Solutions Marketing – preferably in infrastructure, data center, or AI-focused companies.
• Strong understanding of data center switching & fabrics; network architectures for AI (RoCE, telemetry, congestion control, load balancing); Kubernetes; container networking; CNI/Cilium/eBPF; virtualization; distributed AI/ML workloads; large language models; and GPU networking.
• Proven ability to create technical content including demos, architecture diagrams, solution briefs, presentations, and videos.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present confidently to practitioners, executives, and partners.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field

Benefits & Perks

• Salary: $145,000.00 - $182,800.00
• Location: Remote United States
• U.S. employees are offered comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution; paid parental leave; short and long-term disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
• Paid time away benefits include 10 paid holidays per calendar year, a floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), a paid day off for the employee’s birthday, a year-end shutdown, and additional days for personal wellness or emergencies.
• Additional perks include flexible vacation policies for exempt employees, sick time provisions, volunteer days, and eligibility for annual bonuses or performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles).