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*** Please note that this position requires that you commute to the San Francisco, CA office with the preference that you work onsite 1 day per week. ***
About Cisco Meraki
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their employees, students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and more thoughtful with technology that simply works.
As Leader of Technical Marketing Engineering (TME) for Cisco Secure Connect, Cisco’s Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Solution, you will collaborate with Leadership, Product Management, Sales, and Marketing across the Security and Networking groups of Cisco and shape Cisco's SASE strategy, capabilities, and experiences.
Meraki is changing the way the industry thinks about networking and you will be a part of continuing this evolution. Teaming up with forward-thinking product managers, engineers, designers, and delighted customers, you will help ensure we deliver simple yet powerful ways to securely connect users to applications and allow businesses of all sizes to thrive in the digital era. You will work closely with the executive team to build a successful strategy and collaborate with our distinguished sales, marketing, and partner teams to ensure market adoption and rapid growth.
You will significantly impact one of the fastest-growing connected hardware companies in the world, reach a global customer base, and work on groundbreaking cloud-managed hardware!
Every day is truly unlike the one before. Your appetite for approaching problems with creative solutions, candid passion for engineering, and ambition to be part of (and lead) an innovative and inspiring team are the tools you’ll need to be a Meraki product leader.
Responsibilities
- Attract, build, and lead a diverse team of dedicated Technical Marketing Engineers (TME).
- Improve productivity by evolving the team structure to execute TME deliverables efficiently.
- Thoughtfully assign incoming technical projects based on skills and availability, provide ongoing guidance, and remove roadblocks.
- Plan and track timelines for the team, ensuring efficient execution and communication with relevant partners and leadership when things change.
- Work with senior PMs and TMEs across the organization to investigate feature/platform innovations that make valuable contributions to a broad range of customers.
- Work alongside Engineering and PM to craft a feature development strategy that satisfies Cisco’s customers while maintaining the core principles of simplicity.
- Maintain a strong customer-centric view and drive a culture of sharing user and customer feedback with Engineering to build features that will have the biggest impact to customers.
- Review/prioritize customer-reported bugs and critical issues as well as establish a plan to address them.
- Support Sales teams in strategic engagements.
- Drive development and creation of impactful technical collateral to better enable our support, sales engineers, customers, and partners.
- Evangelize the product and platform through participation in industry customer and partner events.
- Stay on top of industry trends and understand the market landscape.
Qualifications
*** Please note that this position requires that you commute to the San Francisco, CA office with the preference that you work onsite 1 day per week. ***
- 7+ years of technical work experience in the cybersecurity space
- 4+ years of experience in Cloud / SaaS space
- 3+ years of people management experience building, leading, and mentoring impactful teams.
- Have excellent communication skills and can communicate complicated concepts to non-technical audiences
- Have worked multi-functionally on large projects with multiple teams.
- Entrepreneurship, a "can do" approach, and the aim to make an impact.
- Good understanding and familiarity with networking technologies
- Love solving technical problems in creative ways.
- BA/BS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree.
- Deep passion for mentoring, coaching, and growing people.
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At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Compensation Range:
$139,000—$266,000 USD
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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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.
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What We Do
Meraki is a Greek word meaning “something done with soul, creativity, or love.” With this name as our mantra, we’re building a welcoming workplace that attracts eclectic, curious, purposeful people who unite to ignite our customers’ passions. Together, we create powerful, simple technology with the potential to change everything.
Why Work With Us
We believe that when passionate people are able to spend less time struggling with technology, they can spend more time on what matters—like teaching kids, running businesses, keeping airports safe, and connecting disaster victims with relief. That’s the real power of simplicity.
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