Senior Director, AI-Driven SASE Product Marketing

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Milpitas, CA seeks a Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead SASE GTM strategy and market creation.

You will translate Cisco capabilities into differentiated narratives, lead a senior marketing team, and collaborate across Security, Networking, Product Management, Sales, and Analyst Relations to accelerate revenue growth. You will shape launches, customer proof, and field motions while connecting roadmap to outcomes, driving measurable growth, and building scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience.
• 15+ years of professional experience across product marketing, product management, technical marketing, product strategy, sales engineering, or GTM leadership in enterprise technology.
• Minimum of 5 years of people management experience leading product marketing, product, technical, or GTM teams with a track record of execution and team development.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading GTM strategy for complex enterprise products, platforms, or portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Own global product marketing and GTM strategy for Cisco SASE, including Secure Access, SD-WAN, SSE, Agent Gateway, and AI-native secure networking motions.
• Define Cisco's SASE messaging, positioning, narrative architecture, and differentiated value proposition for executive buyers, technical audiences, partners, analysts, and sellers.
• Shape the market conversation around transforming the network for the agentic enterprise, including how secure connectivity, zero trust, traffic control, and agent gateway capabilities come together to enable safe AI adoption.
• Drive launches, campaigns, sales plays, partner motions, executive engagement, and major market moments that create pipeline, bookings impact, competitive momentum, and customer confidence.
• Partner with product management to connect roadmap innovation to customer outcomes, market demand, and revenue growth; bring market insight back into roadmap and packaging discussions.
• Identify breakout GTM moves that help Cisco shape the SASE category rather than simply compete in it, including new audience strategies, new buying-center motions, and new customer proof points.
• Build scalable enablement, messaging, content, competitive, and proof-point systems that help global teams execute with consistency and impact.
• Use AI-native workflows to accelerate insight generation, messaging iteration, content creation, seller enablement, personalization, and measurement.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, creating a culture of strategic clarity, accountability, creativity, collaboration, and measurable business impact.

Skills

Product marketing

Product management

Technical marketing

Product strategy

GTM leadership

Sales engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Milpitas, CA seeks a Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead SASE GTM strategy and market creation.

You will translate Cisco capabilities into differentiated narratives, lead a senior marketing team, and collaborate across Security, Networking, Product Management, Sales, and Analyst Relations to accelerate revenue growth. You will shape launches, customer proof, and field motions while connecting roadmap to outcomes, driving measurable growth, and building scalable