Director of Product Marketing – Event Strategy

Cisco

Leading Product Marketing for global events and product launches at Cisco. Driving content strategy and collaboration across events, product management, and sales teams.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeMilpitas • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $289,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the narrative strategy and content framework for global events and product launches.
Amplify Cisco’s Infrastructure and Security messaging, ensuring clarity, consistency, and quality.
Partner across Events, Product Management, Sales, and Regional Marketing.
Serve as the central driver for Cisco’s presence at major industry events.
Responsible for the end-to-end content strategy, from defining key messaging to overseeing execution.
Influence the Infrastructure and Security content roadmap for the annual global event calendar.
Design and implement repeatable, scalable processes to optimize content development and readiness.
Orchestrate cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of presentations, demos, and event programming.
Establish a curated, reusable library of gold-standard content assets.
Communicate strategic milestones, progress, and outcomes directly to executive leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience.
15+ years of experience in product marketing or related fields.
Minimum of 4 years of experience in a formal supervisory or people management role.
Minimum of 5 years experience leading end-to-end content strategy and execution for Tier 1 product launches.
Proven track record of managing marketing event content strategy, development, and delivery.
Documented experience developing executive-level messaging and delivering presentations to C-suite stakeholders.
Deep subject matter expertise in Infrastructure and Security technology markets.
Proven ability to design and optimize operational workflows that support large-scale, concurrent event portfolios.
Strong background in cross-functional leadership, with the ability to drive accountability and results through influence without direct reporting authority.
Experience in building and maintaining centralized content repositories to drive global consistency and reusability.
Demonstrated success in translating complex technical innovations into compelling, market-shaping narratives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Content Framework DesignOperational Workflow OptimizationPresentation DevelopmentEvent Programming ExecutionMessaging Clarity and Consistency

Soft Skills

Influence Without AuthorityTeam CollaborationStrategic Communication