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Senior Director, Product Marketing Meet the TeamCisco 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. We're a dynamic, fast-paced team at the forefront of the AI revolution, where success requires the ability to navigate multiple AI initiatives, drive clarity amid ambiguity, and inspire cross-functional teams to unlock the full potential of AI.
Your ImpactYou 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.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelors + 17 years of related experience, Masters + 14 years of related experience, or PhD + 10 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience. Also requires 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.
