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.