Strategy & Planning Market Ready Manager, (FedRAMP)

The application window is expected to close on: 11/26/2026 ROLE IS REMOTE ANYWHERE IN THE USA

Meet the Team

At Cisco, innovation is at the heart of everything we do. As organizations navigate the AI era, we're helping them securely connect people, applications, and data across increasingly sophisticated environments. With over four decades of industry leadership, we continue to build technologies that improve security, provide actionable insights, and drive business outcomes. None of this would be possible without our people, whose different perspectives, teamwork, and dedication fuel our continued success.

Your Impact

You will join Cisco’s Market Access team, a critical division within the Chief Strategy Office. Our mission is to bring compliant, cloud-based software products to the global market. You will drive strategic launch and sales readiness efforts. Your work will optimize, standardize, and govern processes to accelerate time-to-market and time-to-revenue. This role provides significant exposure within a high-intensity, high-visibility environment.

Own the investment thesis and business case development for FedRAMP (Moderate/High), DoD IL5/IL6, and equivalent international cloud offerings.

Translate strategic business objectives into detailed product and market requirements to support Product Management and roadmap planning.

Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product Management, Legal, Compliance, and Go-to-Market teams to define product features, dependencies, and integrations.

Develop and validate pricing strategies by articulating security, compliance, and total cost of ownership value propositions.

Own the creation of executive presentations, customer-facing pitch decks, and GTM frameworks to accelerate Public Sector cloud adoption and revenue growth.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors +8 years of related experience or Masters +6 years of related experience or PhD 3+ years of related experience.

Experience of FedRAMP (Moderate/High) and DoD Impact Level 5/6 (IL5/IL6) compliance frameworks, authorization processes, and security requirements.

Experience in product management, solutions marketing, or go-to-market leadership within the technology sector, with a focus on cloud solutions and Public Sector customers.

Experience launching sophisticated software, SaaS, or infrastructure solutions from the initial concept phase through to market availability.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building consensus and driving decision-making among executive leaders and cross-functional teams in sophisticated, matrixed environments.

Experience connecting security and compliance initiatives to measurable customer benefits, business value, and market differentiation.

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.