Senior Director, Product Marketing - AI

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  • Location:
    San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    274900 USD - 371500 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    AI or Artificial Intelligence, Cloud and Data Center, Networking, Security
  • Job Id
    1437427

The application window is extended and expected to close on: March 20th, 5 PM ET.


Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

 

Meet the Team


The AI Software & Platform Team delivers AI products, so businesses around the world defend against threats and safeguard the most important aspects of business with security resilience. We are passionate about making businesses secure and simplifying security with zero compromise.


Your Impact


As Senior Director, Product Marketing AI, you have a strong mix of product marketing, technology, people leadership, and GenAI domain competence, coupled with strategic vision and proven execution. You will mentor senior product marketers and work cross functionally with other marketing and product teams across Cisco to promote AI based product offerings.


Your responsibilities will include:


  • Develop expertise across Cisco’s AI Software and Platform portfolio.
  • Collaborate closely with Networking, Security, and other Cisco Product and Marketing teams on unified Cisco AI messaging.
  • Lead competitive positioning and messaging initiatives to reinforce and extend Cisco’s market leadership.
  • Guide planning and execution to fuel growth and drive impact across the Sales, Marketing, and Channel organizations.
  • Serve as a trusted authority on the AI portfolio, customers, and business—driving impact through writing, speaking, and thought leadership—while guiding go-to-market and demand generation initiatives.
  • Represent Cisco at customer engagements, events, within the analyst community, and with media, positioning the company as a leader in the industry.
  • Lead a diverse, high-performing product marketing team, driving collaboration and excellence.
  • Mentor and coach fellow product marketers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and growth.

Minimum Qualifications


  • You have proven experience in security and/or AI, across Product Marketing, Product Management, Technical Marketing, or Sales Engineering.
  • You have 5+ years of management experience, leading technical, marketing, product or sales engineering teams with a proven track record in execution and team development.
  • You hold a Bachelor's Degree (technical preferred), with a Master’s or MBA being a plus.
  • Proven experience articulating the value of advanced infrastructure and technologies like AI and ML to solve customer and business challenges.

Preferred Qualifications


  • You excel at conveying technical concepts and their business value to diverse audiences.
  • You are open to travel as needed (up to 25%)
  • Bachelors + 17 years or Masters + 14 years or PhD + 10 years of related experience in IT, networking, Enterprise SaaS, or Security industry.

Why Cisco


The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's redefining our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your groundbreaking ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. A passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

We offer extensive employee benefits including unlimited PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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