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 (GTM) strategy. This leadership role operates at the intersection of product strategy, market creation, customer outcomes, and revenue growth to ensure Cisco’s 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 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 Cisco’s AI leadership to set new industry standards. This role requires navigating multiple AI initiatives, driving clarity amid ambiguity, and inspiring cross-functional teams to unlock the full potential of AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior product marketing team and partner deeply across Cisco Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Product Management, Sales, and executive leadership to drive global product marketing and GTM strategy for secure networking motions.
• Operate as a strategic connector between product innovation and commercial execution, translating Cisco capabilities into differentiated market narratives, high-confidence field activation, and measurable growth.
• Define Cisco’s Infrastructure and security messaging, drive major market moments, and build scalable enablement systems to shape the market conversation around redefining the network for the agentic enterprise.
• Connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes, build pipeline and bookings impact, and lead a high-performing team that delivers consistent and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree + 17 years of related experience, Master’s + 14 years, or PhD + 10 years (or equivalent work experience).
• 12+ years of experience in 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.

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/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. With 40 years of fearless innovation, we create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across physical and digital worlds. Our solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across their entire digital footprint. Fueled by our technology’s depth and breadth, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Our global network of doers and experts ensures opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We collaborate with empathy to make a real impact on a global scale.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $284,700.00 to $390,900.00 for U.S. and Canada locations (excluding New York City Metro Area, Non-Metro New York State, Washington State, and Illinois), 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 training.

• 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, and basic life insurance.
• Eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units (RSUs), which vest over time with continued employment.
• Paid time off:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year + 1 floating holiday (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 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 needs).
  • 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 annually.
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year for volunteering.
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles (subject to Cisco’s policies).
• For sales roles: Performance-based incentive pay (quota and non-quota components), with no minimum threshold for payout:
  • 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%.
  • At or above 1% for each 1% of attainment beyond 100%, with no cap on incentive compensation.
  • For non-quota-based sales objectives: 0% to 125% of target.