# Product Readiness Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $173,400.00 to $231,800.00
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Product Readiness Management team at Cisco partners with Product Management and cross-functional organisations to translate product strategy into actionable priorities and ensure products and software releases are ready for market.

As a Product Readiness Manager, you will translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, initiatives, milestones, and decision frameworks that support product and Go-to-Market objectives. You will provide cross-functional leaders with clear analyses and recommendations to guide resource allocation, risk management, prioritisation, and release readiness while driving alignment across the organisation.

Responsibilities include:

- Translating strategic direction into actionable priorities, initiatives, milestones, decision forums, and planning tools

- Leading cross-functional Go-to-Market readiness initiatives for new products, software releases, and portfolio programs

- Partnering with Product Management, Sales Enablement, Partner Enablement, Customer Experience, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align strategic priorities and drive execution

- Analysing business, product, market, and program information to identify risks, opportunities, dependencies, and trade-offs

- Developing and maintaining planning frameworks, status updates, risk/issue tracking, and performance insights

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree 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

- Experience supporting Go-to-Market, product readiness, product launches, or similar cross-functional business initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

- PMP certification or demonstrated experience applying project/program management methodologies

- Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions across teams without direct authority

- 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

The starting salary range for this position is $173,400.00 to $231,800.00.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- strategic initiatives
- cross-functional collaboration
- product readiness
- Go-to-Market strategy

### Nice to have
- PMP certification
- AI tools
- technology
- software
- hardware

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