Sr. Director of Product Marketing – Growth Strategy

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translate 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.
• Shape the market conversation around redefining the network for the agentic enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelors + 17 years of related experience, Masters + 14 years of related experience, or PhD + 10 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
• Experience managing managers.
• 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.

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 eye for business, including experience with pipeline, bookings, win/loss, attach, adoption, competitive, and customer engagement metrics.

Benefits

At Cisco, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible vacation time off program
• Volunteer time off
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles
• Performance-based incentive pay for quota-based sales roles

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $280,100.00 to $384,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canadian locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

Schedule

Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.