Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network. The Technical Marketing Engineering Leader will manage a team of solutions architects to develop and communicate best-practice technical solutions, ensuring successful go-to-market execution and adoption of ThousandEyes products.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Product Solutions Architects, setting clear objectives, prioritizing workloads, and allocating resources to meet business goals
- Develop and oversee the creation of reference architectures, guides, labs, and demos for ThousandEyes solutions and products
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical solutions training for internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with sales, product, and marketing teams to support go-to-market and adoption activities
- Oversee new product and feature introduction activities, such as technical training and creation of technical decision-maker presentations
- Engage directly with customers to gain in-depth understanding of their business processes and product needs, validate solutions, and develop product champions
- Support field and marketing events, including conferences and customer meetings; some travel required for you and your team
- Promote ThousandEyes' culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence
Requirements:
- Proven experience managing and developing technical teams, ideally in technical marketing or solutions architecture
- Strong networking domain expertise and experience, ideally in SD-WAN and/or network performance management technologies (e.g., SNMP, flow)
- Extensive customer and field experience, ideally covering both enterprises and service providers (10+ years in a TME, Sales Engineering, or other similar customer-facing role)
- Demonstrated success in building demos and creating technical content, such as best practice guides and reference architectures
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a willingness to present and defend ideas and coach others to do the same
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with experience managing multiple projects and deadlines
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or engineering
- Technical certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, or other, demonstrating knowledge in areas such as networking, CloudOps, DevOps, and automation
- Knowledge of Python or other programming languages is a plus