Cisco
Sr. Director, Portfolio Product Marketing (Hybrid)
Cisco, San Jose, California, United States
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In this role, you will manage a team of stellar product and content marketeers to elevate Splunk’s market awareness and drive durable revenue for the business. You will own our cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and activation along with building a content strategy that feeds into demand generation, events and across critical executive and analyst meetings.
Your Impact
Cross portfolio messaging: Own the overall vision for a cohesive Splunk-Cisco portfolio narrative across Splunk and Cisco’s portfolio of solutions, Splunk's AI, Machine Data and Data Fabric vision. Partner with cross-functional teams in the field, product and brand to bring this messaging to life at events, content and in world-class keynotes.
Growth and GTM: Influence routes to reach new audiences, creating accompanying seller and partner assets on how to tell a cross-portfolio value story to customers.
Thought Leadership & Storytelling. Champion Splunk’s vision in critical industry and corporate events including keynotes and product deep dives, executive and analyst briefings where Splunk is represented.
Content Marketing: Oversee the content marketing team, guiding content strategy and alignment with messaging and objectives. Ensuring seamless integration with the business and stakeholders to maximize impact.
Team & Organizational Leadership. Recruit, develop, and inspire a team of senior and group PMMs; instill operating rigor, creative excellence, and a bias for action.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of product marketing experience in relevant enterprise IT software with 7+ years of experience managing people
Bachelor's Degree, Masters is a Plus
Position is based at headquarters in San Francisco, California or San Jose, California
Preferred Qualifications
Strong knowledge of existing technologies and solutions in the marketplace, primary vendors, and industry trends and dynamics is strongly preferred.
Customer-first mindset: You are an expert in understanding customer and buyer personas; know how to create clear, powerful and compelling narratives that stick.
Analytical Storyteller: Comfortable moving between creative reviews and quick execution cycles, influencing executive stakeholders and gathering buy in.
People-First Mindset: Builds high-performing teams, mentors rising leaders, and fosters a growth-first mindset
Cross-Org Influence: Aligns senior stakeholders, drives clear timelines and execution paths, and navigates large organizations with grace.
Self-starter: Truly enjoys working in a fast-paced software start-up environment and gets things done with a sense of urgency.
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.
The starting salary range posted for this position is
$250,000.00
to
$315,000.00
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.
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. 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
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In this role, you will manage a team of stellar product and content marketeers to elevate Splunk’s market awareness and drive durable revenue for the business. You will own our cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and activation along with building a content strategy that feeds into demand generation, events and across critical executive and analyst meetings.
Your Impact
Cross portfolio messaging: Own the overall vision for a cohesive Splunk-Cisco portfolio narrative across Splunk and Cisco’s portfolio of solutions, Splunk's AI, Machine Data and Data Fabric vision. Partner with cross-functional teams in the field, product and brand to bring this messaging to life at events, content and in world-class keynotes.
Growth and GTM: Influence routes to reach new audiences, creating accompanying seller and partner assets on how to tell a cross-portfolio value story to customers.
Thought Leadership & Storytelling. Champion Splunk’s vision in critical industry and corporate events including keynotes and product deep dives, executive and analyst briefings where Splunk is represented.
Content Marketing: Oversee the content marketing team, guiding content strategy and alignment with messaging and objectives. Ensuring seamless integration with the business and stakeholders to maximize impact.
Team & Organizational Leadership. Recruit, develop, and inspire a team of senior and group PMMs; instill operating rigor, creative excellence, and a bias for action.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of product marketing experience in relevant enterprise IT software with 7+ years of experience managing people
Bachelor's Degree, Masters is a Plus
Position is based at headquarters in San Francisco, California or San Jose, California
Preferred Qualifications
Strong knowledge of existing technologies and solutions in the marketplace, primary vendors, and industry trends and dynamics is strongly preferred.
Customer-first mindset: You are an expert in understanding customer and buyer personas; know how to create clear, powerful and compelling narratives that stick.
Analytical Storyteller: Comfortable moving between creative reviews and quick execution cycles, influencing executive stakeholders and gathering buy in.
People-First Mindset: Builds high-performing teams, mentors rising leaders, and fosters a growth-first mindset
Cross-Org Influence: Aligns senior stakeholders, drives clear timelines and execution paths, and navigates large organizations with grace.
Self-starter: Truly enjoys working in a fast-paced software start-up environment and gets things done with a sense of urgency.
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.
The starting salary range posted for this position is
$250,000.00
to
$315,000.00
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.
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. 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
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