Technical Marketing Engineer - Technical Leader

Application window is expected to close on 11/1/2024
We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Marketing Engineer Technical Leader to join Cisco's Cloud & Network Security Product organization!
Who we are:
You'll be part of a fast-paced dynamic team in an exciting environment, working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Product Marketing, UI/UX, and Sales Engineering to help drive the strategy, design, and deployment of Cisco's security product family.
We are looking for someone who can work with passionate teams to develop clear solutions to complex customer problems and is comfortable in a highly distributed team environment. It's in our culture to learn, adapt, and improve, so you'll be open to trying new things.
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a team who are passionate about delivering new security capabilities to customers.
What You'll Do

• Maintain expertise on our product use cases, customer needs, market trends, industry competitors, and the threat landscape.
• Develop a deep understanding of Network Security's products and strategy alignment with broader Cisco and how Cisco products fit our customers' security landscape.
• Tell stories that inspire passion and elevate our product position, vision/roadmap, and thought leadership.
• Present and demo at high-profile industry events around the world, on webcasts and other digital events, and in conference rooms to C-level executives at the largest companies to help audiences understand our product capabilities and benefits.
• Build, maintain, and proctor global labs and demo platforms for our product technology.
• Research and analyze the competitive landscape and support our field teams with collateral.
• Present to Cisco Sales & Partner SE teams our latest use cases and capabilities as a key contact to help close technical deals for our largest opportunities.

What we're looking for

• Technical Acuity: You are comfortable setting up demo/lab environments and troubleshooting/overcoming issues in various network, endpoint, and cloud architectures.
• Communication: You have a proven record of explaining new, ground-breaking solutions to enterprise customers-both the strategic benefits and practical use cases. You enjoy speaking publicly to audiences of all sizes both technical and non-technical and are equally comfortable in person or in a webcast/video.
• Curiosity: You believe that creativity and growth start with a curiosity and humility and asking thoughtful questions.
• Attitude & Ambition: The best candidates are inquisitive, hard-working, driven, and not afraid to fail. They are a team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.

Who You Are:
Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years in network security such as technical pre-sales, technical marketing, or customer success.
• 5+ years' experience in network design and firewalls, (Cisco Firepower, ASA, Palo Alto, Fortinet or Checkpoint)
• Understanding of segmentation and emerging technology like eBFP, workload protection and vulnerability assessment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CCNP security, CISSP/CCSP, CCIE or other security/networking certification/s.
• Design scalable, highly available secure network design for Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Data Center and Cloud.
• Design secure network enclaves-based enterprise architecture for cloud, intranet and extranet to protect critical assets.
• Design and implement secure data communication across network elements and critical assets as per industry standards and Security Best practices.
• Open to 10% global travel.

Why Cisco Secure
We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.
Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.
We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!
There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here!
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.