Role Description
Cisco is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) to lead technical engagement and market development for our Retail vertical, focusing on driving adoption of Cisco Vision / Smart Cameras and related digital experience solutions across shopping malls and multi-site retail management, and global retail stores.
This highly customer-facing role serves as the technical link between our retail customers and Cisco's Product Management, Engineering, UX, Customer Experience, and Sales organizations. You will spend significant time in the field meeting with retail partners, visiting customer deployments, participating in industry events, and interacting directly with customers to understand operational challenges, validate product direction, and influence the future of Cisco's Smart Camera retail portfolio.
Your Impact
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Serve as Ciscoβs retail technology authority (Cisco Vision, intelligent retail analytics), traveling up to 50β70% to build positive relationships with retail brands, store operations leaders, and IT decision-makers while representing Cisco at industry conferences, advisory boards, and executive events.
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Translate retail operational feedback into product requirements, collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, UX, and Customer Experience teams to build roadmap priorities, validate concepts through demos/POCs/betas, and identify market trends and competitive opportunities.
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Drive adoption of Cisco Vision across retail environments by developing repeatable deployment strategies and standard methodologies, collaborating with Sales, Partner, and Customer Success teams, while crafting tailored technical demos, presentations, and collateral (deployment guides, reference architectures, white papers) for retail use cases such as loss prevention and operational visibility, occupancy analytics, and shopper engagement.
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Document successful deployments into compelling case studies and identify innovative implementations, translating lessons learned into product improvements and developing training content to strengthen field, partner, and customer technical readiness.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience, Master's degree with 3+ years of related experience, or PhD with relevant experience.
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Experience in technical marketing, solutions engineering, product management, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles.
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Experience developing technical marketing content, white papers, deployment guides, and customer-facing collateral.
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Experience delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to C-level executives, technical teams, and enterprise customer/partner audiences annually.
Requirements
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Ability to travel 50-70% to customer locations, industry conferences, and Cisco offices, supporting a multi-region customer and partner portfolio.
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Previous work experience in enterprise networking, IP video, digital signage, AV, or retail technology ecosystems with hands-on experience supporting large customer deployments or technical implementations at scale.
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Experience working with retail brands, retail management companies, retail technology providers, or other retail sector stakeholders.
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Strong understanding of competitive technologies and market positioning.
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Passion for emerging retail technologies and improving guest experiences through innovation.
Benefits
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Medical, dental and vision insurance.
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401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
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Paid parental leave.
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Short and long-term disability coverage.
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Basic life insurance.
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Paid time away including 10 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, and additional paid days for personal wellness.
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Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees.
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80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
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Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.