Product Readiness Manager

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🏄 California, Illinois, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $173.4k - $231.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

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

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant professional experience, OR a Master's degree and 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 stakeholders and influencing decisions across teams without direct authority • Experience supporting Go-to-Market, product readiness, product launches, or similar cross-functional business initiatives • PMP certification or demonstrated experience applying project/program management methodologies preferred • Experience in a technology, networking, software, hardware, or similarly complex product environment preferred • Experience with Go-to-Market strategy, product launches, product readiness, or sales/partner enablement preferred • Experience using AI tools or AI-enabled capabilities to improve productivity, planning, analysis, or business decision-making preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting following continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward annually • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies • Performance-based incentive pay for sales-plan employees