[Hiring] Go to Market Program Manager @Cisco

Role Description

This role plans, coordinates, and delivers medium-sized Go-to-Market programs that support organizational priorities. This role manages programs across the entire lifecycle, including:

• Scope
• Schedule
• Resources
• Governance
• Communication
• Risks
• Issues
• Interdependencies
• Change management
• Readiness
• Adoption
• Outcomes

The initial focus will be supporting Go-to-Market, Training and Enablement, readiness, and adoption commitments. Over time, the role will also help improve coordination across various teams.

• Coordinate multiple projects, workstreams, and teams in parallel.
• Define project scope, plans, schedules, milestones, owners, and success measures.
• Manage program schedules, scope, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Establish practical governance and communication routines for program stakeholders.
• Provide clear updates on delivery progress, risks, decisions, financial information, and outcomes.
• Support change management, readiness, adoption, and maturity activities.
• Coordinate Training and Enablement activities, including audience needs, communications, delivery plans, feedback, and adoption measures.
• Support Go-to-Market programs from planning through launch, enablement, adoption, and follow-up.
• Develop contingency and mitigation plans for resource, timeline, and dependency risks.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Enablement, Strategy and Planning, Business Operations, Finance, and technical teams.
• Use data, AI-enabled tools, and automation to improve planning, reporting, analysis, risk visibility, and decision-making where appropriate.
• Evaluate program results and recommend process, tool, or resource improvements.
• Help teams prioritize competing work and escalate decisions when needed.
• Create repeatable playbooks, processes, and program-management practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of project or program management experience.
• Experience managing projects or programs that require coordinating deliverables across 2 or more teams or functional areas.
• Experience managing project or program schedules, risks, and dependencies.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Go-to-Market operations, product operations, Training and Enablement, sales operations, or business operations.
• Experience supporting at least one product launch, readiness, enablement, or organizational change initiative.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing project or program plans that define goals, milestones, owners, deliverables, and success measures.
• Experience creating playbooks, communications, handoff materials, or enablement resources.
• Experience with tools such as Asana, Jira, Salesforce, SharePoint, Airtable, or Power BI.
• Experience using AI, automation, analytics, or reporting tools to improve program execution.
• PMP or similar certification 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.
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 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 for exempt employees.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.