Senior Director Engineering jobs at Cisco in United States, Atlanta

• Develop Go-to-Market Strategy for new and existing products: Develop and execute the GTM strategy for hybrid infrastructure solutions, identifying adoption patterns, use cases, target markets and customer segments operating across virtualized and containerized environments
• Customer-Centric Product Evolution: Engage directly with early adopters and design partners to understand infrastructure pain points, application dependencies, and operational requirements. Transform these insights into product requirements and positioning that addresses real-world hybrid cloud scenarios
• Develop Core Product Positioning, Messaging, and Differentiators: Craft compelling and consistent positioning and messaging around the differentiators that align with the overall product strategy and resonate with customers and partners. Work with inbound product management, engineering, and the field to identify and articulate the outstanding value propositions of Cisco Infrastructure and Security products, ensuring they are communicated and understood by the target audiences. Passionately represent the voice of our customers to internal teams.
• Enable Sales and Partners: Develop content for collateral, product training, and other resources for direct sales teams and partner organizations. Engage directly with sales and customers to understand changing needs. Attend industry events. Serve as subject matter expert.
• Conduct Market Research: Continuously analyze the market and customer feedback to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and threats. Conduct meticulous competitive analysis to ensure the product is positioned successfully.
• Influence Partners, including Executives: Use excellent communication skills for effective engagement. Demonstrate your strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mentality to make product and marketing recommendations. Define and monitor metrics to assess GTM success.

• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure/platform technology with at least 5 years in product marketing or technical product management
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent technical experience
• Hands-on experience with both VMware vSphere/ESXi and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
• Proven track record working with enterprise customers on infrastructure modernization initiatives
• Deep understanding of application architectures, infrastructure dependencies, and platform integration challenges

• Direct experience with infrastructure transformation and application modernization projects
• Knowledge of specific technologies: vMotion, Storage vMotion, Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, persistent volumes, and CNI plugins
• Understanding of enterprise concerns: compliance, data gravity, licensing optimization, and TCO modeling
• Experience with related technologies: Tanzu, Anthos, AWS Outposts, Azure Arc
• Experience presenting to business and technical audiences at conferences like KubeCon, VMworld, or Red Hat Summit
• Experience speaking publicly to an executive-level audience
• Product marketing experience
• MBA
• Strong project execution skills, attention to detail, and a risk-mitigation mentality
• Self-motivation and partnership a strive to find new and innovative solutions
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills in customer-facing roles
• Ability to lead and influence via persuasion, perseverance, and energy to drive consensus across functions and teams
• Collaboration with internal and external partners

• Anticipate customer objections around platform compatibility, performance considerations, and operational complexity
• Build trust with skeptical infrastructure teams who've experienced failed transformation initiatives
• Create compelling business cases that justify infrastructure investments
• Navigate complex enterprise procurement cycles with multiple stakeholders
• Balance technical accuracy with accessible storytelling

The application window is expected to close on September 19, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

• Develop and execute social media strategies that increase brand awareness, engagement, and lead generation for Cisco’s AI portfolio.
• Create and curate high-impact content including blogs, videos, social posts, and thought leadership pieces that resonate with technical and business audiences.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product marketing, engineering, and sales teams to align messaging and amplify product launches and updates.
• Analyze social and content performance metrics to optimize campaigns and inform growth strategies.
• Manage community engagement and influencer relationships to build a vibrant ecosystem around Cisco AI products.
• Stay abreast of AI industry trends and competitor activities to ensure Cisco’s content remains relevant and differentiated.

• 5+ years of experience in social media marketing, content marketing, or growth marketing, preferably in technology or AI-related fields.
• Proven ability to create engaging content and manage social media platforms to drive measurable growth.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing tools, analytics, and social media management platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives.
• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.

• Experience in B2B technology marketing, especially in AI, software, or cloud domains.
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and the enterprise software landscape.
• Demonstrated success in community building and influencer marketing.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of SEO, content strategy, and growth hacking techniques.

• Define and implement a product strategy tailored to Neocloud providers(hyperscalers, SaaS providers, cloud-native organizations)that positions Cisco as a leader in AI/ML infrastructure. Influence Cisco’s overall product and technology roadmap to prioritize investments in strategic areas.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams ensuring our Compute portfolio solves the challenges of AI-heavy industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and technology.
• Evangelize Cisco’s leadership in AI infrastructure through engagement with customers, sales teams, and external forums. Engage with experts and advocate for technologies critical for supporting high-density datacenter workloads. Represent Cisco at industry events and forums to identify emerging trends and potential collaborators.
• Prioritize features and capabilities that deliver the agility, scalability, and efficiency required by Neocloud environments, building partnerships providers to co-develop solutions that align with their unique scaling and infrastructure needs.
• Ensure the company's Compute portfolio addresses the operational challenges of Neocloud environments and the specific requirements of large-scale datacenters, including optimizing for power efficiency, cooling technologies, and advanced lifecycle management capabilities.
• Partner with other Cisco teams (Networking, Security, and Observability) to create end-to-end solutions that address customer challenges holistically, integrating the Compute portfolio seamlessly within our broader technology stack, allowing customers to adopt unified solutions that simplify operations and accelerate value.
• Work closely with the Global Sales Organization to support large-scale compute opportunities, ensuring the product portfolio meets customer workload requirements.Build relationships with key AI, Neocloud and Datacenter ecosystem players, including ISVs, hardware vendors, and startups. Establish and implement partnerships that drive innovation, improve time-to-market, and expand Cisco’s addressable market.

• 10+ years product management experience, ideally in compute, AI, cloud, or datacenter markets, working with Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Partner teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Prior experience supporting global datacenter projects
• Understanding of AI/ML workloads, cloud-native architectures, and modern compute infrastructure technologies.
• Proven ability to align product strategy with customer needs and market trends, delivering solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

• Prior experience working with Neocloud providers to understand their infrastructure challenges.
• Familiarity with Cisco’s product portfolio
• Consistent track record in creating and managing technology partnerships.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree

• Development with third party SDKs, implementing build environment frameworks, designing test-harnesses for hardware bringup & debugging third party tools with external vendors
• Close interaction with customers to gather requirements, explain system design, share timelines, address difficulties, questions, issues, help in adoption.
• Owning the design and architecture of robust software systems, making design choices and dictating coding standards, tools, and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, driving technical excellence in SDK development.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 7+ years of experience with networking. e.g. processing packet streams, TCP reassembly, DPDK, or similar
• Platform/ASIC bring-up experience in Linux-based environments using programming languages to include P4
• Advanced experience developing software for or leveraging hardware acceleration platforms like DPUs or NPUs.
• Experience with performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for high-throughput data plane applications.

• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience with AI/ML is a plus, especially for building innovative solutions to improve productivity, solve customer challenges, or drive research initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop self-built AI tools or projects will be considered a significant advantage.
• Represented the organization or team at industry conferences, standards bodies, or technical forums.
• Domain expertise in network security technologies (e.g., NGFW, Web Security, Zero Trust, SASE).

We are looking for ato deliver strategic business value, meet key objectives, and improve operational efficiencies. This role requires building strong cross-functional partnerships to plan, direct, and coordinate sophisticated engineering programs.

• Own end-to-end delivery of 1-2 Meraki cross-functional programs within the network platform cloud, from inception to working code release.
• Collaborate across the Network Platform Team Cloud Front End, leading 6-8 initiative workstreams simultaneously.
• Develop and drive comprehensive program plans, handling technical dependencies within Meraki and across Cisco, ensuring collaborator alignment.
• Track and implement program deliverables, milestones, action items, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate inter-team requests and alignment among cross-functional engineering teams on broader initiatives.
• Leverage AI-based tools (e.g., for summarization, program tracking, planning insights) to improve speed, visibility, and decision-making in program execution and communication.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities post-project to improve processes and workflows.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, UX/research teams, data scientists, and other program managers to define and prioritize initiatives.
• Understand product use cases and communicate technical details effectively with engineering and product teams.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with cross-functional teams to align on business goals and priorities.
• Prepare program status reports and executive briefings for diverse stakeholder groups.
• Enforce to Meraki’s process metrics and governance, driving ongoing process improvements.
• Exhibit excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Adapt and thrive in fast-changing, ambiguous environments, utilizing new technologies such as AI to optimize workflows and decision-making.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related technical field, or equivalent software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of program management experience in software products, SaaS, or cloud backend technologies.
• Experience with project planning tools such as Jira, Confluence, and MS Office.
• Experience working in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Experience working across multiple cross-functional programs and teams.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity and planning tools to streamline program management workflows is a plus.