Product Marketing Manager, Secure Connect Now - REMOTE

At Cisco Meraki, we empower our customers to realize their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our cloud-first networking platform and rich portfolio of security, access, and IoT products are changing the way CIOs build new experiences, enable hybrid workforces, and create smarter and more secure environments for customers and employees.

To accelerate our journey towards this mission, Meraki Marketing is seeking a thoughtful and creative Senior Product Marketing Manager to foster our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings. These unique services help our customers deliver secure, delightful network experiences for their employees whether they're connecting from home, a branch, or the main campus. These are emerging markets that need strong product marketing, positioning, and storytelling to properly establish new categories!

As a senior member of the Product Marketing team, you'll help shape our go-to-market strategy, develop and refine differentiated positioning and messaging, and work closely with product, sales, and customer teams to help bring these new solutions to market!

What you'll do:

• Lead our team's network-as-a-service (NaaS) and SASE expertise, spanning a portfolio of hardware, software, security, and analytics technologies
• Collaborate across Product and Market Strategy teams to develop a comprehensive platform positioning and messaging strategy that puts customer outcomes first
• Drive the development of messaging for the Cisco+ Secure Connect Now portfolio
• Serve as a trusted technical and market authority, while working with the wider marketing and leadership teams on go-to-market and demand generation activities
• Take the stage and evangelize the Cisco Meraki and Cisco+ vision at industry events
• Build in-depth collateral and tools for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world

Who you are:

• You love the challenge of learning the complexities of a complex technical ecosystem and finding simple, effective ways to communicate solutions to customers
• You take a structured, proactive approach to developing messaging and positioning, leading with a customer-first view of the market and the problems to be solved
• You're comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and business-focused stakeholders
• You've helped build new market categories and identify high-priority customer needs through technology transitions
• You're a clear communicator and can balance written and verbal content with ease
• You're not afraid to challenge the status quo, combining data, qualitative insights, and other inputs to set projects on the right track
• You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in the networking space
• You are willing to travel as needed, up to 20% envisioned

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