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.
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer