Director of Product Marketing – Event Strategy
About The Position
Cisco is seeking a strategic, high-impact Senior Product Marketing Leader to define the narrative strategy and content framework for our global events and product launches. This team is responsible for amplifying Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security messaging, ensuring clarity, consistency, and quality across all regions and channels. By partnering across Events, Product Management, Sales, and Regional Marketing, you will influence how Cisco’s innovations are presented on the world stage, setting the standards for storytelling and operational excellence at scale. In this role, you will serve as the central driver for Cisco’s presence at major industry events. You will be responsible for the end-to-end content strategy, from defining key messaging to overseeing the execution of high-visibility launch payloads. Your work will involve: Influencing the Infrastructure and Security content roadmap for the annual global event calendar. Designing and implementing repeatable, scalable processes to optimize content development and readiness. Orchestrating cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality presentations, demos, and event programming. Establishing a curated, reusable library of gold-standard content assets. Communicating strategic milestones, progress, and outcomes directly to executive leadership to support informed decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience.
- 15+ years of experience in product marketing or related fields.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in a formal supervisory or people management role.
- Minimum of 5 years experience leading end-to-end content strategy and execution for Tier 1 product launches.
Nice To Haves
- Proven track record of managing marketing event content strategy, development, and delivery.
- Documented experience developing executive-level messaging and delivering presentations to C-suite stakeholders.
- Deep subject matter expertise in Infrastructure and Security technology markets.
- Proven ability to design and optimize operational workflows that support large-scale, concurrent event portfolios.
- Strong background in cross-functional leadership, with the ability to drive accountability and results through influence without direct reporting authority.
- Experience in building and maintaining centralized content repositories to drive global consistency and reusability.
- Demonstrated success in translating complex technical innovations into compelling, market-shaping narratives.
Responsibilities
- Influencing the Infrastructure and Security content roadmap for the annual global event calendar.
- Designing and implementing repeatable, scalable processes to optimize content development and readiness.
- Orchestrating cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality presentations, demos, and event programming.
- Establishing a curated, reusable library of gold-standard content assets.
- Communicating strategic milestones, progress, and outcomes directly to executive leadership to support informed decision-making.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- 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
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
