Sr. Director of Data Center Networking Infrastructure Product Marketing

We are a dynamic, fast-paced team looking for a Product Growth Strategist with strong communication skills and deep market insights. This high-visibility role—with a primary focus on Data Center Product Marketing Management (PMM)—provides the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the Strategy, Growth, and Product Marketing group, and Cisco at large.

As a Product Growth Strategist specializing in Data Center PMM, you will take primary responsibility for external-facing activities that ensure your product’s market success, including understanding key industry trends and customer needs. You will work closely with engineering, sales, central marketing, and customer experience teams to ensure product positioning resonates with target customers, driving product visibility, adoption, and overall success. You will also lead a team of marketers to develop the strategy and execute marketing efforts for Cisco’s Data Center networking infrastructure portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies, including identifying target markets, messaging, and positioning for artificial intelligence switching solutions and product lines.
• Spearhead the AI-ready data center strategy and messaging, addressing the specialized infrastructure, power, cooling, and performance demands of modern AI workloads.
• Translate technology into value by crafting core product positioning, messaging, and differentiators that align with overall product strategy and resonate with customers and partners.
• Collaborate with inbound product management, engineering, and field teams to articulate the value propositions of data center products and solutions.
• Develop enablement content—such as collateral and product training—for direct sales teams and partner organizations and serve as a subject matter expert at industry events.
• Conduct ongoing market research and competitive analysis to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and threats.
• Define and monitor metrics to assess GTM success, providing data-driven product and marketing recommendations.
• Position Cisco as a thought leader in the data center space by developing content, speaking at industry events, and engaging through external channels such as media, blogs, analyst reports, and awards.
• Build campaign briefs to identify business opportunities and equip the central marketing team with resources for sales enablement.

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise or B2B technology.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience working with data center infrastructure, software, infrastructure, and compute platforms.
• 5+ years of leadership experience within technology organizations.
• 5+ years of professional experience working with enterprise artificial intelligence technologies.

• Experience leading product marketing for artificial intelligence, compute, data center switching, storage solutions, or adjacent infrastructure and networking domains.
• Experience developing and executing demand generation, content marketing, and digital marketing strategies.
• Experience delivering public presentations to executive-level audiences.
• Demonstrated project execution skills, attention to detail, and experience with risk mitigation.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and reporting experience in customer-facing roles.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams to drive consensus.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external partners.

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.

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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.