Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company developing solutions that connect and protect organizations across digital and physical environments. The Product Readiness Manager translates strategic direction into actionable priorities and leads cross-functional Go-to-Market readiness initiatives for products, software releases, and portfolio programs. The role coordinates stakeholders, dependencies, risks, milestones, and recommendations to support product launches and release readiness.
Responsibilities
- Translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, initiatives, milestones, decision forums, and planning tools, providing recommendations that support business and product objectives
- Lead cross-functional Go-to-Market readiness initiatives for new products, software releases, and portfolio programs, coordinating priorities, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
- Partner with Product Management, Sales Enablement, Partner Enablement, Customer Experience, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align strategic priorities and drive execution
- Analyze business, product, market, and program information to identify risks, opportunities, dependencies, and trade-offs and provide recommendations to cross-functional leaders
- Develop and maintain planning frameworks, status updates, risk/issue tracking, and performance insights to support prioritization, resource alignment, and successful product readiness
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant professional experience, OR a Master's degree and 6+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience managing projects, programs, or strategic initiatives with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience driving cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution, including managing milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions across teams without direct authority
- Experience supporting Go-to-Market, product readiness, product launches, or similar cross-functional business initiatives
- PMP certification or demonstrated experience applying project/program management methodologies
- Experience in a technology, networking, software, hardware, or similarly complex product environment
- Experience with Go-to-Market strategy, product launches, product readiness, or sales/partner enablement
- Experience using AI tools or AI-enabled capabilities to improve productivity, planning, analysis, or business decision-making
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
- Remote work arrangement
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