Product Readiness Manager
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Cisco Product Readiness Manager translating strategy into Go-to-Market priorities for networking and software releases. Coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and launch readiness.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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