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Who We Are

Outshift by Cisco is Cisco's incubation engine, identifying emerging technologies and building new businesses that shape the future. We operate with the speed and mindset of a startup while leveraging Cisco's global scale, expertise, and resources to bring innovative ideas to market.

If you're passionate about solving tomorrow's biggest challenges and creating products that redefine industries, we'd love to have you join us.

Your Impact
As a Marketing Program Manager, you will play a critical role in executing integrated marketing programs that accelerate awareness and adoption of Outshift's emerging technologies. You'll partner across product marketing, creative, digital, legal, and go-to-market teams to deliver product launches, webinars, campaigns, and operational initiatives that support business growth. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys managing multiple priorities, and brings both operational excellence and data-driven decision-making to every project. Specific Responsibilities include:

• Lead cross-functional marketing programs, coordinating timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment for product launches, campaigns, and key initiatives.

• Own the end-to-end execution of Outshift's webinar program, including planning, platform management, live event moderation, and post-event reporting.

• Manage marketing operations by administering tools, workflows, automations, resource planning, and campaign tracking to improve team efficiency.

• Analyze and communicate campaign, webinar, and website performance metrics, providing actionable insights for stakeholders and quarterly business reviews.

• Coordinate cross-functional approvals, vendor relationships, and additional marketing initiatives to ensure successful delivery across content, digital, paid media, and web programs.
   

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 2+ years of experience in marketing, marketing program management, product marketing, campaign management, marketing operations, or event/webinar production.

• Experience managing multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously while driving execution and meeting deadlines.

• Experience using marketing and collaboration platforms such as Airtable, Jira, Confluence, ON24, or similar tools.

• Experience analyzing and reporting marketing campaign, webinar, or digital performance metrics using reporting or analytics tools.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting product launches in a technology, SaaS, or startup-like environment.

• Proven experience producing virtual events or webinar programs from planning through post-event analysis.

• Experience implementing workflow automations or AI-enabled solutions to improve marketing operations and team productivity.

• Experience managing vendor relationships, contracts, and marketing technology platforms.

• Familiarity with digital marketing, web content management, campaign reporting, and cross-functional go-to-market execution.

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $121,000.00 to $152,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 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 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 hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and 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.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$136,000.00 - $197,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$121,000.00 - $175,400.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.