Product Marketing Manager – AI Networking

Cisco is a leading company in data and infrastructure solutions, and they are seeking a Product Marketing Manager to support their AI-ready data center networking platforms. This role involves crafting narratives, driving product launches, and collaborating with various partners to enhance Cisco's presence in the AI ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Craft clear narratives that connect Cisco switching and data center architectures to real-world AI/ML, distributed training, inference and cloud-native use cases
• Translate technical innovations into value propositions that resonate across both technical and business audiences
• Create differentiated messaging against key industry trends, competitive approaches, and emerging open-source technologies
• Represent Cisco in forums where practitioners gather: GitHub, Slack/Discord communities, conferences, partner events, and webinars
• Drive product launches across Data center networking platforms and partner solutions—AI fabrics, accelerated networking, container networking, observability, and automation
• Develop crisp, compelling assets: solution briefs, demo scripts, blogs, videos, event talks, infographics, and partner co-marketing
• Collaborate with NVIDIA, Red Hat, hyperscalers, Kubernetes ecosystem partners, and observability platforms to define joint narratives
• Support integrations and partnerships relevant to AI workloads, container networking, Cilium/eBPF ecosystems, and distributed training stacks
• Present at external conferences, partner events, and analyst briefings
• Establish Cisco as a leader in AI networking, cloud-native compute, and developer-first architectures

Requirements:

• 8+ years in Product Marketing, Product Management, DevRel, or Solutions Marketing, preferably in infrastructure, data center, or AI-focused companies
• Strong understanding of: Data center switching & fabrics, Network architectures for AI (RoCE, telemetry, congestion control, load balancing), Kubernetes, container networking, CNI/Cilium/eBPF, virtualization, Distributed AI/ML workloads, large language models, GPU networking
• Proven ability to create technical content (demos, architecture diagrams, solution briefs, presentations, videos)
• Excellent communicator able to present confidently to practitioners, executives, and partners
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or related field