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Technical Marketing Leader, Cisco Validated
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$171k-$216kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- The application window is expected to close on: 10/22/2026 Meet the Team Join Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco's integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof.
- Your Impact As a Technical Marketing Developer Leader on the Cisco Validated team, you will help turn Cisco's One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof.
- You will be expected to bring structure to loosely defined requests, work through technical and organizational ambiguity, and keep validation efforts moving from concept to credible proof.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-portfolio validation efforts for integrated Cisco solutions aligned to Cisco's strategic priorities.
- Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot complex lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
- Partner with BU product managers, BU TMEs, Architectural Sponsors, field architects, sales teams, and Cisco Validated peers to ensure validation outcomes are technically credible and field-relevant.
- Mentor developing TMEs and external partner resources by setting technical direction, reviewing evidence quality, and reinforcing repeatable validation practices.
- You will lead validation work across integrated Cisco solutions, building and testing lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios and expose what is repeatable, supportable, and ready for the field.
- Your work will support classic Cisco Validated Designs while expanding the team's role across proof motions, integrated solutions, case studies, briefs, and reference architectures.
- You will also help raise the technical bar for the broader validation team by mentoring developing TMDs, shaping repeatable validation practices, and contributing to a durable cross-portfolio talent model.
- This role requires enough technical range to validate integrated outcomes, identify gaps, and explain how Cisco technologies work together in real customer environments.
Requirements
- Experience in networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies, with depth in at least one major technical domain.
- Experience leading technical work across cross-functional stakeholders, including product, engineering, field, sales, or customer-facing teams.
- Experience translating ambiguous technical or business objectives into scoped validation plans, evidence requirements, findings, and field-ready outputs.
- The ideal candidate brings broad technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, with depth in one or more domains and the ability to learn quickly as Cisco's strategy evolves.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with shifting priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and complex technical tradeoffs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deep knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across multiple Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains.
- Demonstrated ability to understand how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures and cross-portfolio outcomes.
- Strong general networking foundation, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
- Experience with AI infrastructure, AI-ready data center architectures, GPU cluster networking, high-performance fabrics, workload connectivity, or secure AI architecture concepts.
- 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.
Compensation
- The starting salary range posted for this position is $171,100.00 to $216,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benef
Company info
- This team works across Business Unit product managers, Technical Marketing Developers, architects, field teams, and leadership to clarify what is real, what is repeatable, and what is ready for customers.
- The work spans lab validation, proof motions, reference architectures, technical findings, and field-facing assets that help sales and customers understand how Cisco technologies work better together.
- At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond.
- You will work closely with Business Unit product managers, Business Unit Technical Marketing Develpoers, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to scope validation efforts, define evidence requirements, identify integration gaps, and translate technical findings into assets that sales teams, architects, partners, and customers can trust.
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