Sr. Director of Product Marketing – Growth Strategy

About the Position

Sr. Director of Product Marketing – Growth Strategy

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior product marketing team and partner deeply across Cisco Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Product Management, Sales, and executive leadership.
• 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.
• Connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes, build pipeline and bookings impact, and lead a high-performing team.

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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $280,100.00 to $442,600.00
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Paid time away: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, 4 paid days off for personal wellness, 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees, and flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees.
• 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.
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles and performance-based incentive pay for sales roles.

About the Company

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.