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Meet the Team

Cisco is building the infrastructure foundation for the AI era: the networks, data centers, security, observability, automation, and operations capabilities customers need to move AI from experiments to production at enterprise scale. We are currently seeking two senior product marketing leaders to join our team. These are remote roles based in the United States, requiring significant travel (approximately 30–50% of the time).

Your Impact

In these roles, you will lead the product marketing strategy for Cisco’s AI infrastructure portfolio, connecting technical capabilities to the business outcomes customers require for AI workloads and AI-native applications. You will define the narrative, positioning, messaging, launch strategy, and sales enablement required to power secure, connected, AI-ready organizations. By partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Corporate Marketing, Analyst Relations, and Communications, you will translate sophisticated infrastructure innovation into market value, drive cross-functional alignment, and equip the business to win with enterprise buyers and executives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or 19+ years of equivalent professional experience.
• 15+ years of experience in B2B technology marketing.
• 5+ years of experience in product marketing leadership specifically within enterprise infrastructure, networking, data center, cloud, security, or AI/ML platforms.
• 5+ years of experience developing product positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launch plans, and sales enablement assets for enterprise technology solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time.
• Experience working directly with product and engineering teams to translate technical roadmaps into customer-facing value propositions.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving sales, marketing, and executive stakeholders.
• Proficiency in utilizing market data, customer insights, and campaign performance metrics to report on strategy effectiveness.
• Experience in creating and executing go-to-market strategies for category-defining technology.
• Direct experience managing and influencing distributed, global teams.
• Demonstrated history of delivering thought leadership content, including white papers, executive narratives, and solution briefs for technical audiences.
• Experience building and executing enablement programs for global sales organizations and channel partners.
• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) in a relevant field.

Why Cisco?

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.

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $230,100.00 to $325,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$230,100.00 - $374,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$216,500.00 - $337,000.00

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.