Sr. Director of Compute & AI Product Growth Strategist

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  • Location:
    San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    All cities in US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Pre Sales and Product Management
  • Compensation Range
    274900 USD - 371500 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Cloud and Data Center, Networking
  • Job Id
    1434759

*Application deadline expected to expire 4/20/2025


Meet the Team

We are a dynamic, fast-paced team and to be successful in this high-stakes role, you have phenomenal storytelling skills and deep market insights to join as product growth strategist. This high visibility role will reward the right leader with invaluable opportunities to make a significant impact with the Strategy, Growth, and Product Marketing group, and Cisco at large.

Your Impact

As a Product Growth Strategist, you are primarily responsible for external-facing activities ensuring your product’s market success and understanding key industry trends and your customers’ struggles. You will work closely with engineering, sales, central marketing, and customer experience teams to ensure your product positioning resonates with target customers, driving product visibility, adoption, and overall success. You will also lead a team of dedicated marketers to develop the strategy and lead execution of marketing efforts for Cisco’s Data Center Compute & AI portfolio. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in product marketing, team leadership, and a strong understanding of the data center infrastructure ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the GTM strategy including identifying target sectors, messaging, and positioning for artificial intelligence solutions and compute product lines.
  • Translate technology to value by developing core product positioning, messaging, and identifying differentiators. Craft compelling and consistent positioning and messaging around the differentiators that align with the overall product strategy and resonate with customers and partners. Work with inbound product management, engineering, and the field to identify and articulate the outstanding value propositions of data center compute products and solutions, ensuring they are communicated and understood by the target audiences. Passionately represent the voice of our customers to internal teams.
  • Develop content for collateral, product training, and other resources for direct sales teams and partner organizations. Engage directly with sales and customers to understand changing needs. Attend industry events. Serve as domain expert.
  • Continuously analyze the market and customer feedback to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and threats. Conduct meticulous competitive analysis to ensure the product is positioned successfully.
  • Use excellent communication skills for effective engagement. Demonstrate your strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mentality to make product and marketing recommendations. Define and monitor metrics to assess GTM success.
  • Position Cisco as a thought leader in the data center compute space by developing content, speaking at industry events, and creating visibility through external channels (media, blogs, analyst reports, awards, etc.)
  • Build campaign briefs to identify areas of business opportunity and equip the central marketing team with the required resources to effectively enable sales with the value of the products and solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 10+ years in enterprise/b2b tech experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in related fields
  • Expertise in data center infrastructure, software, infrastructure and compute platforms
  • Leadership experience in prominent tech companies
  • Experience with enterprise AI technologies

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understanding of and experience in leading product marketing for AI, compute, data center switching and storage solutions or adjacent infrastructure and networking domains
  • Expertise in developing and executing demand generation, content marketing, and digital marketing strategies
  • Experience speaking publicly to an executive-level audience
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills in customer-facing roles
  • Ability to lead and influence via persuasion, perseverance, and energy to drive consensus across functions and teams

Pay Range: 274900 USD - 371500 USD

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!

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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