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.
• 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, driving major market moments, and building scalable enablement systems.
• Shape the market conversation around redefining the network for the agentic enterprise.
• Measure success by 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.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product roadmap into GTM plans, enablement, and growth metrics.

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. 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

• 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

• 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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
• 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
• 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
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.