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Key Responsibilities:- Drive Cisco’s solutions portfolio across multiple software-defined storage partnerships
- Define solution use cases that span AI, data center modernization, hybrid cloud and traditional workloads
- Build and deliver compelling business cases to justify investment and prioritize strategic opportunities.
- Identify, evaluate, and lead strategic technology partnerships that enable differentiated solutions and go-to-market scale.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to translate customer needs into product and solution requirements documents and committed roadmaps.
- Lead multi-functional go-to-market planning across Cisco sales, marketing, and business development teams.
- Build field enablement assets, messaging frameworks, and sales tools to drive adoption and pipeline.
- Represent Cisco in executive briefings, partner forums, industry events, customer engagements, and analyst interactions.
- Ensure alignment across collaborators in legal, finance, support, alliances, and engineering for successful solution execution.
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in product management or business development in the domains of compute infrastructure, enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, Software-defined Storage), or cloud-native technologies.
- 5+ years of experience managing collaborators and leading multi-functional projects to deliver integrated hardware and software solutions.
- Consistent track record of developing over 5 business cases or market assessments that influenced product investment decisions, crafted strategic direction, and drove measurable impact on revenue growth and market share through effective multi-functional teamwork.
Preferred Qualifications:- Deep understanding of data center deployment, use cases, and architecture across enterprise environments, neo-cloud providers, and hyperscalers.
- Strong understanding of Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), and core storage technologies including file, block, and object storage.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and support data-driven decision-making.
- Strong understanding of compute technologies, including server architecture, processors, memory, and GPUs, with experience translating AI workload requirements to storage architectures
- Strong ability to identify and nurture strategic technology partnerships with co-development and joint go-to-market potential.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Experience in crafting sales enablement tools, field messaging frameworks, and go-to-market content.
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree.