Sr. Director of Product Marketing – AI Growth Strategy

Responsibilities

• Architecting and executing the global product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Cisco's AI-ready infrastructure and security portfolios.
• Defining differentiated messaging, positioning, and value propositions for Cisco's role in the enterprise, tailoring narratives from executive buyers to technical practitioners and global partners.
• Shaping the market conversation around transforming the network for modern enterprise demands.
• Driving launches, campaigns, and major market moments that impact competitive momentum and customer confidence.
• Partnering with product management to connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes and integrating market insight back into roadmap and commercialization discussions.
• Identifying GTM strategies that help Cisco shape the infrastructure and security portfolio, including new audience strategies, buying-center motions, and customer proof points.
• Utilizing AI-native workflows to accelerate insight generation, messaging iteration, content creation, and measurement.

Requirements

• 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 with a track record of execution and team development.
• 5+ years of experience leading GTM strategy for complex enterprise products, platforms, or portfolios.

Preferred

• Demonstrated ability to connect messaging, launch strategy, sales enablement, and marketing execution to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience in networking, cybersecurity, secure access, cloud security, identity, observability, or AI-related infrastructure/security markets.
• Product management or product strategy background, with interest in 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 stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen, including experience with pipeline, bookings, win/loss, attach, adoption, competitive, and customer engagement metrics.

Benefits

• U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer