Sr. Director - Product

Meet the Team

Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG) is a global leader in delivering advanced security solutions, helping customers address ever-evolving security challenges. As Cisco shifts aggressively to a software and recurring revenue model, SBG leads this transformation, with over $2B in annual revenue and 40%+ YoY growth in software recurring revenue.

We are seeking a visionary, growth-oriented, and transformational Senior Director, Product Management to lead multi-product portfolio strategies, direct high-performing product management and technical marketing organizations, and accelerate our recurring software revenue trajectory. In this leadership role, you will bridge product strategy, technical architecture, and full-funnel go-to-market (GTM) execution—driving our security solutions from definition and design through global scale, customer adoption, and long-term market prominence.

Your Impact

Leads the design, development, and management of activities for a specific product or group of products or services from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Serves as the central resource with design, development, and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution. Directs the activities of a product function (includes product management, and technical marketing)

• Provides leadership and direction for all product or technical marketing teams within multiple product families (typically through directors and/or senior leaders)
• Defines product and technology roadmaps for multiple product lines/multiple technologies/multiple.
• Accountable for multi-product strategy development, spanning multiple Bus and product families, across a multi-year time horizon.
• Leads various executive sponsors and stakeholders through a collaborative process for development of, and alignment to, longer-term vision and strategy
• Provides leadership for portfolio roadmap development processes, infrastructure and decision making; and ensures appropriate cascade of objectives through or across the BU or Functions.
• Ensures BU needs, critical business issues, market needs, and core product strategies are addressed in portfolio roadmap decisions.
• Partners across the business to enable organization transformation and maturity, incorporating emerging trends and appropriate technologies.
• Shapes the opinions of, and negotiates with, other senior leaders; establishes collaborative relationships across Cisco and with external parties (as required)
• Proactively extends Cisco's and portfolio's prominence and public perception.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent practical industry experience, with 15+ years of professional experience in the industry preferably product management or marketing and product growth leadership in SaaS environment or cybersecurity.
• Experience guiding, mentoring, and scaling high-performing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Proven track record driving end-to-end product strategy, technical positioning, roadmap prioritization, and go-to-market execution from concept through launch and market scale.
• Direct experience driving product adoption, pipeline growth, or software recurring revenue (ARR) expansion within cybersecurity, cloud security, or B2B SaaS platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) with a background in product or marketing.
• Deep domain expertise across enterprise cybersecurity, cloud security, SaaS platforms, Zero Trust architectures, identity, or regulated/federal markets.
• Proven track record leading business model transitions (e.g., perpetual-to-subscription/SaaS) and driving substantial software recurring revenue (ARR) growth.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled workflows, advanced analytics, and data-driven forecasting to optimize product performance and customer acquisition cost (CAC), align sales and engineering leaders, and negotiate with external partner ecosystems.

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.