[Hiring] Technical Activation Lead @Cisco

Role Description

This remote role is open for US based candidates, no relocation is available.

You will join the Global GTM Incubation & Emerging Technologies team, responsible for commercializing and scaling Cisco’s newest technology innovations. Our mission is to partner with Product leaders to develop, test, and validate early-stage GTM hypotheses.

Your Impact:

• Turn approved cross-product technical and architectural decisions into dated, owned workstreams that reach demonstrable customer and field readiness.
• Translate approved use cases and architecture into coordinated workstreams, accountable owners, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance criteria across AI Defense, Cloud Control, MCF, and future incubation offers.
• Maintain the technical activation register, decision log, readiness checklist, partner-delivery tracker, use-case charter, and structured feedback register.
• Coordinate product, engineering, SE, dCloud/demo, partner, CX/support, legal/security, and field execution, including partner SOW deliverables.
• Develop reference collaterals of proof plans, deployment patterns, and field-readiness evidence.
• Orchestrate AI Defense competitive-proof readiness, Cloud Control onboarding procedures, and partner Multi Cloud Fabric (MCF) managed service practice high level design.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of demonstrated expertise in Network software and solutions.
• Strong architectural literacy with the ability to create reference demos, proof plans, deployment patterns, and enablement materials for early-stage technology innovations.
• Experience maintaining technical registers, decision logs, and readiness checklists, identifying dependencies and raising issues using data-driven evidence.
• 5+ years of experience driving rapid prototyping and Proof of Concepts (PoCs) from initial concept through pilot, launch readiness, and scale.
• Proven experience leading an engineering team aligned with sales counterparts.

Requirements

• Advanced expertise in orchestrating sophisticated technical proofs, such as AI Defense, Cloud Control, or similar emerging technology validations.
• Outstanding skill in handling ambiguity within fast-paced incubation environments, adapting quickly to shifting priorities and early-stage Go-To-Market hypotheses.
• Deep understanding of product partnership dynamics by building repeatable sales and partner playbooks for lighthouse customer wins.
• Strong background in developing reusable results that streamline processes across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and project management skills, consistently demonstrated through tangible technical milestones rather than conceptual discussions.

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 including holidays, personal wellness days, and vacation time.
• Optional paid days to volunteer.
• Potential for grants of Cisco restricted stock units.

Company Description

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.

We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.