Cisco Director Compute Product Marketing 

United States, California, San Francisco 

268116907

You will report to the senior product marketing leader who supports the entire Cisco Networking portfolio. You will also have an active role in all facets of product positioning ensuring our value and differentiation lands in all relevant marketing activities. Key stakeholders include product management leaders, business unit executives and other cross-functional leaders.

• Become a specialist in all things related to the Compute portfolio and how these products thread through the entire marketing process
• Develop thorough, product level expertise for the portfolio being able to articulate how to position to global audiences and to a variety of BDM / TDM personas within the data center / compute buying groups
• Put customers first in all that you do
• Distill and communicate complex information for sales, marketing, partners, analysts and customers
• Work with product management, communications and Market Strategy leaders to craft messaging
• Deliver business, technical and operational feedback to stakeholders
• Be a trusted product positioning advisor to the wider marketing team to conceptualize and collaborate on marketing campaigns
• Drive the development of and/or author thoughtful, customer / market oriented content for campaigns in collaboration with Content Marketing and other marketing experts
• Evangelize the Cisco Networking and portfolio vision at industry events
• Drive and build in-depth product collateral and tools for some of the largest enterprise customer organizations in the world
• Transform, develop and mentor a product marketing team ensuring a continuous evolution of skills, professional growth and expanded responsibilities

• 10+ years of proven experience in the networking space gained through product marketing, solution marketing or technical marketing
• Experience in compute or data center preferred
• Proven leader with a track record for team transformation and development of talent
• Customer-first oriented approach to continuous improvement of product messaging and marketing tactics
• Understand the in-depth business, technical and operational practices of global IT, Public Sector, Commercial and/or Small, Mid-Size and global Enterprise Businesses
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical features into differentiated value and business benefits to all types of audiences
• Demonstrated ability to identify talent gaps, develop team and individual strengths
• Lead both individual contributors and first-level team managers and continuously grow in skill and responsibility
• Excellent communicator, creative problem solver, risk-taker, innovative thinker, consensus builder (as needed), motivator, assertive leader
• Comfortable leading and collaborating in an Agile Marketing environment
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Experience working in the IT or networking industry in a requirement
• Up to 25% travel required