Technical Marketing Engineer- MS Meraki Switch
The Cisco Meraki team is seeking a driven Technical Marketing Engineer to support product management activities for our fastest growing product line, the cloud-managed switch (https://meraki.cisco.com/products/switches).
Meraki is changing the way the industry thinks about networking, and you will support the charge to continue driving this change. You will collaborate with forward-thinking engineers and customers to help ensure that we make the best product with consistently new and improved features. You will help make this product stand out in a growing $23 billion market.
You are exhilarated by technology and want to help build distinguished products. You want to help make products shine in the marketplace, outpacing and outperforming the competition.
As a critical member of the product team, your responsibilities include:
- Serving as the authority and key technical advisor for the product and its current and future capabilities
- Producing technical guides, standard methodologies documents, application notes, and configuration and installation content for internal and external use
- Working with Product Marketing to raise technical awareness of our products among our sales and channel teams
- Training Sales on efficiently positioning the product and features to seek customer issues
- Partnering with Sales Engineers on solving customer use cases through pre-sales engagement
- Preparing and presenting content to partners, customers, and executives
- Working with engineering teams through design, testing, and product launch; running beta and pilot programs
- Investigating technology trends and understanding market direction to evangelize adoption of new features that seek customer problems
- Working with ecosystem partners to validate inter-operation and successful solution development
- Tracking post-sales product feedback and quality by liaising with Support and Escalations teams
Qualifications:
- Degree in CS, EE, or a related technical field
- 8-12 years of work experience with Routing and Switching network technologies, preferably in an Enterprise environment
- CWNA/CCNP/CCIE routing/switching/security or above certifications are highly desirable
- Experience in technical marketing, technical support, product testing, pre- sales engineering, is preferred
- Passion for learning about networking, cloud, and emerging disruptive technologies
- Strong user empathy with a deep desire to understand top customer problems
- Easily communicate complicated concepts to non-technical folks
- Ambitious, can-do attitude with a strong sense of product quality
- Love solving technical problems in creative ways
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