Meet the Team

The Product Readiness Management team partners closely with Product Management and cross-functional organizations to translate product strategy into actionable priorities and ensure products and software releases are ready for market. The team brings together stakeholders across Product, Sales Enablement, Partner Enablement, Customer Experience, and other functions to align strategic priorities, manage dependencies, and drive successful Go-to-Market execution.

Your Impact

As a Product Readiness Manager, you will translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, initiatives, milestones, and decision frameworks that support product and Go-to-Market objectives. You will provide cross-functional leaders with clear analysesand recommendations to guide resource allocation, risk management, prioritization, and release readiness while driving alignment across the organization.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, initiatives, milestones, decision forums,and planning tools, providing recommendations that support business and product objectives.
• Lead cross-functional Go-to-Market readiness initiatives for new products, software releases,and portfolio programs, coordinating priorities, milestones, dependencies,and deliverables.
• Partner with Product Management, Sales Enablement, Partner Enablement, Customer Experience,and other cross-functional stakeholders to align strategic prioritiesand drive execution.
• Analyze business, product, market,and program information to identify risks, opportunities, dependencies,and trade-offsand provide recommendations to cross-functional leaders.
• Develop and maintain planning frameworks, status updates, risk/issue tracking,and performance insights to support prioritization, resource alignment,and successful product readiness.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant professional experience, OR a Master’s degreeand 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience managing projects, programs, or strategic initiatives with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution, including managing milestones, dependencies, risks,and deliverables.
• Experience working with senior stakeholdersand influencing decisions across teams without direct authority.
• Experience supporting Go-to-Market, product readiness, product launches, or similar cross-functional business initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification or demonstrated experience applying project/program management methodologies.
• Experience in a technology, networking, software, hardware, or similarly complex product environment.
• Experience with Go-to-Market strategy, product launches, product readiness, or sales/partner enablement.
• Experience using AI tools or AI-enabled capabilities to improve productivity, planning, analysis, or business decision-making.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how dataand infrastructure connectand protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for ́40 years to create solutions that power how humansand technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility,and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doersand experts,and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco,and our power starts with you.

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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 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 availabilityand some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire dateand 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 their base salary, which is split between quotaand non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to ́125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.