# Senior Director, Product Management

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $284,700.00 to $390,900.00
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco’s Security Business Group (SBG) is seeking a Senior Director, Product Management to lead multi-product portfolio strategies, direct high-performing product management and technical marketing organizations, and accelerate recurring software revenue trajectory.

The successful candidate will bridge product strategy, technical architecture, and full-funnel go-to-market (GTM) execution,driving security solutions from definition and design through global scale, customer adoption, and long-term market prominence.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

**Requirements:**

- 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.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- 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

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- marketing
- cybersecurity
- SaaS
- cloud security

### Nice to have
- MBA
- enterprise cybersecurity
- SaaS platforms
- Zero Trust architectures
- AI-enabled workflows
- advanced analytics
- data-driven forecasting

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