# Incubation Technical Activation Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $266,100.00 to $342,900.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will join the Global GTM Incubation & Emerging Technologies team at Cisco, responsible for commercializing and scaling the company's newest technology innovations.

As the Incubation Technical Activation Lead, you'll turn approved cross-product technical and architectural decisions into dated, owned workstreams that reach demonstrable customer and field readiness.

Key responsibilities:

- Translate approved use cases and architecture into coordinated workstreams, accountable owners, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance criteria across AI Defense, Cloud Control, MCF, and future incubation offers.

- Maintain the technical activation register, decision log, readiness checklist, partner-delivery tracker, use-case charter, and structured feedback register.

- Coordinate product, engineering, SE, dCloud/demo, partner, CX/support, legal/security, and field execution.

- Develop reference collaterals of proof plans, deployment patterns, and field-readiness evidence.

Requirements:

- 12+ years of demonstrated expertise in Network software and solutions.

- Strong architectural literacy with the ability to create reference demos, proof plans, deployment patterns, and enablement materials.

- Experience maintaining technical registers, decision logs, and readiness checklists.

- 5+ years of experience driving rapid prototyping and Proof of Concepts (PoCs).

- Proven experience leading an engineering team aligned with sales counterparts.

Preferred qualifications:

- Advanced expertise in orchestrating sophisticated technical proofs.

- Outstanding skill in handling ambiguity within fast-paced incubation environments.

- Deep understanding of product partnership dynamics.

- Strong background in developing reusable results.

- Excellent communication and project management skills.

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.

- Paid time away.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary range: $266,100.00 to $342,900.00

## Skills

### Required
- Network software
- architectural literacy
- technical registers
- rapid prototyping
- Proof of Concepts

### Nice to have
- AI Defense
- Cloud Control
- MCF
- project management

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