Director, Marketing

This is a remote role with preference for candidates residing on the East Coast, United States.

Meet the Team

The Marketing M&A team drives the integration of Cisco’s acquisitions to ensure a unified brand and maximize joint-marketing synergies. This team collaborates across Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, IT, and other functions to deliver seamless integration experiences. Joining this team means working in a dynamic environment focused on innovation, strategic growth, and cross-functional partnership.

Your Impact

As the Marketing M&A Functional Leader, you will lead the strategy and execution of marketing integrations for Cisco’s acquisitions. You will oversee the entire integration lifecycle—from due diligence through to deal closure—ensuring alignment with Cisco’s brand and growth objectives. Your leadership will drive process optimization, risk mitigation, and cultural integration, while managing key performance indicators and executive reporting. Success in this role means delivering scalable, repeatable integration processes that protect deal value and accelerate business momentum.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in marketing roles, including significant exposure to mergers and acquisitions or integration management.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Proven track record managing complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking with the ability to translate business outcomes into actionable integration strategies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing executive leadership and building strategic relationships.
• Deep expertise in demand generation, brand architecture, digital marketing, and go-to-market strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA.
• Experience in financial modeling, risk assessment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Adaptability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments with a focus on innovation.
• Strong change management skills, including cultural integration and communication during transitions.
• Collaborative mindset with a commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
• Experience developing and optimizing playbooks, dashboards, and integration tools.

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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $195,000.00 to $245,800.00 for new hires 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.

Full salary ranges for specific locations:

• New York City Metro Area: $230,000.00 - $333,300.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $207,000.00 - $300,000.00

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

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.
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) that vest following continued employment.
• Paid time off:
  • 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.
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
  • Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period.
  • Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off with no defined limit (subject to business limitations).
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward.
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies.
• For sales roles: Performance-based incentive pay split between quota and non-quota components.
  • Quota-based incentive pay:
    • 0.75% 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%.
    • Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap.
  • Non-quota-based sales performance elements: 0% up to 125% of target.

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