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