Senior Director, Product Marketing

About the role

Cisco is seeking a visionary, high-impact Senior Marketing Leader for growth strategy to lead product marketing and go-to-market strategy. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of product strategy, market creation, customer outcomes, and revenue growth to ensure our products are positioned to win in a rapidly evolving market. You’ll shape and accelerate cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions that redefine how Cisco delivers networking security outcomes for our customers.

As a key orchestrator, you’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, Sales, Engineering, and Marketing to identify complex challenges, build breakthrough solutions, and showcase our AI leadership to set new industry standards. You will lead a senior product marketing team and partner deeply across Cisco Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Product Management, Sales, and executive leadership to lead the global product marketing and GTM strategy for secure networking motions.

Operating as a strategic connector between product innovation and commercial execution, you will translate Cisco capabilities into differentiated market narratives, high-confidence field activation, and measurable growth. By defining Cisco’s Infrastructure and security messaging, driving major market moments, and building scalable enablement systems, you will shape the market conversation around redefining the network for the agentic enterprise.

Your success will be measured by your ability to connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes, build pipeline and bookings impact, and lead a high-performing team that delivers with consistency and measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global product marketing and go-to-market (GTM) strategy for secure networking motions.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Sales, Engineering, and Marketing to identify complex challenges and build breakthrough solutions.
• Translate Cisco capabilities into differentiated market narratives and high-confidence field activation.
• Define Cisco’s Infrastructure and security messaging to shape the market conversation.
• Drive major market moments and build scalable enablement systems.
• Connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes and measurable business impact.
• Build and lead a high-performing product marketing team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree + 17 years of related experience, Master’s + 14 years, or PhD + 10 years of related experience, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of experience across product marketing, product management, technical marketing, product strategy, sales engineering, or GTM leadership in enterprise technology.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading product marketing, product, technical, or GTM teams.
• 5+ years of experience leading GTM strategy for sophisticated enterprise products, platforms, or portfolios.
• Experience managing managers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience applying AI and machine learning concepts, networking fundamentals, and identity and infrastructure principles to drive new product introduction, release, and customer and market analysis.
• Experience in networking, cybersecurity, secure access, cloud security, identity, observability, or AI-related infrastructure/security markets.
• Product management or product strategy background, with curiosity about applying product depth to GTM strategy and market creation.
• Experience building executive-level thought leadership and differentiated category narratives.
• Experience operating in a global, matrixed organization and influencing product, sales, marketing, partner, analyst, and executive collaborators.
• Strong business acumen, including experience with pipeline, bookings, win/loss, attach, adoption, competitive, and customer engagement metrics.

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. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $284,700.00 to $390,900.00 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: $284,700.00 - $449,500.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $272,000.00 - $398,000.00

For quota-based sales roles, the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) that vest over time.
• 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 carried forward annually.
  • 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.