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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Lead - Route to Market Strategy and Execution

Cisco San Jose, California senior full-time

Salary

$194,600 to $285,700 per year

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Description

Cisco is growing its agentic capabilities, delivering Cloud Control platform, and leading with AI security, AI powered capabilities and products, and a growing portfolio, along with acquisitions in agentic observability and orchestration.

As a lead, you will be hands-on designing and building a product RTM framework, approach, engagement methodology, partner value proposition and value exchange for the agentic era.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement Go-To-Market strategies and new operating frameworks aligned with business objectives.
  • Translate strategy into initiatives with measurable outcomes.
  • Develop and operationalize GTM frameworks for new market motions across the agentic platform, working closely with Product and GTM teams.
  • Work with Geo and country leaders in driving the objective in driving demand generation, pipeline and revenue through partners.
  • Prepare and develop partner investment, incentives, programs and rewards required to drive acceleration.

Business Inspection & Stakeholder Management

  • Monitor performance against strategic goals, identifying optimization opportunities.
  • Manage expectations and align senior leaders and stakeholders.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

  • Build performance measurement frameworks and KPIs for GTM programs.
  • Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned.

Commercialization Strategy and Frameworks

  • Support the strategy for agentic commercialization frameworks,pricing, packaging, and adoption models.
  • Help build out open source-to-monetization motions, DevOps buying motions, and agent-as-buyer ICPs in partnership with Sales and Product.
  • Define modern product enablement structures.

Leadership & Influence

  • Advise executive leadership on GTM operations.
  • Encourage cross-functional teams to achieve high-impact results.

Program Development

  • Build scalable frameworks and processes for Go-To-Market program execution across GTM teams.
  • Establish governance models to ensure consistency and accountability.

Cross-Functional Alignment

  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, and Customer Success teams to ensure alignment and coordinated execution across organizations.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Operations, or a related field.
  • 12+ years of experience in go-to-market leadership roles such as Product Management, Sales, Sales Acceleration, Customer Success, or Marketing.
  • Industry experience in the AI and agentic market, either in an AI company or supporting AI products within a SaaS company.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI, agentic AI, platform, or developer-focused product launches.
  • Experience with Security and exposure to agentic security.
  • Experience with 0-to-1 product launches and customer adoption motions.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile environment with constant change.
  • Strong interest as a builder.
  • Ability to drive alignment and decisions across multiple stakeholder teams.
  • Exposure to open source-to-monetization motions, DevOps buying centers, or new commercialization models (usage-based, consumption, platform packaging).
  • Strong understanding of AI models, MCP, Agents, supply chain and market trends insights.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Security
  • open source-to-monetization motions
  • DevOps buying centers
  • new commercialization models

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