Technical Marketing Engineering Leader, Cisco Validated

Role Overview

Join Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco’s integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof. The team works across Business Unit product managers, TMEs, architects, field teams, and leadership to clarify what is real, what is repeatable, and what is ready for customers.

What You Will Do

As a Technical Marketing Engineering 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 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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

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. This role requires enough technical range to validate integrated outcomes, identify gaps, and explain how Cisco technologies work together in real customer environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
• 12+ years of hands-on technical experience designing, implementing, validating, troubleshooting, or supporting complex enterprise, service provider, cloud, security, collaboration, or data center technology environments
• 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

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
• Paid time away
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer