Remote Technical Activation Lead – GTM & Incubation

Cisco Systems, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 266,000 - 343,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an Incubation Technical Activation Lead for a remote US-based role.

You will translate approved cross-product decisions into coordinated workstreams with owners, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance criteria across AI Defense, Cloud Control, MCF, and future incubation offers. You will also develop reference collaterals and repeatable playbooks for lighthouse customer wins.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of demonstrated expertise in network software and solutions.
• 5+ years of experience driving rapid prototyping and PoCs from initial concept through pilot, launch readiness, and scale.
• Proven experience leading an engineering team aligned with sales counterparts.
• Strong architectural literacy with the ability to create reference demos, proof plans, deployment patterns, and enablement materials for early-stage technology innovations.
• Experience maintaining technical registers, decision logs, and readiness checklists, identifying dependencies and raising issues using data-driven evidence.

Responsibilities

• Turn approved cross-product technical and architectural decisions into dated, owned workstreams reaching customer readiness.
• 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.
• Run gates from concept through coordinated proof, pilot, launch readiness, and scale.
• Orchestrate AI Defense, Cloud Control onboarding, and MCF design with measurable results.

Skills

Network software

Architectural literacy

Technical registers & logs

PoCs & rapid prototyping

Engineering leadership

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an Incubation Technical Activation Lead for a remote US-based role.

You will translate approved cross-product decisions into coordinated workstreams with owners, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance criteria across AI Defense, Cloud Control, MCF, and future incubation offers. You will also develop reference collaterals and repeatable playbooks for lighthouse customer wins.