Senior Product Marketing Manager- AI Foundation

Cisco Security Product Marketing Leader

Cisco Security is seeking an experienced cybersecurity product marketing leader to join our dynamic team. We're looking for a passionate storyteller with deep insights into the rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) security market. As a Product Marketing Manager for Foundation AI, you'll drive market adoption of our open source security models designed to accelerate SOC operations, enhance threat detection, and strengthen AI supply chain security. Your role will focus on converting model adoption into design partnerships and qualified business opportunities within enterprise security organizations. At Cisco, you'll join a global, diverse, and adaptable team committed to innovation at scale. We blend the agility and excitement of a startup culture with the resources and stability of an established leader in enterprise security.

Your Impact

You will drive external-facing activities to ensure Foundation AI's market success. You will analyze the evolving AI security landscape, anticipate industry trends, and identify customer challenges around AI model deployment in security workflows. You will clearly articulate Cisco's unique differentiators in purpose-built security AI models, collaborate with sales, campaign, and customer success teams, and drive product visibility, adoption, and design partnerships that advance Cisco's leadership in AI-driven security.

Key Responsibilities

Develop Go-to-Market Strategy for new and existing products :

• Develop and execute the GTM strategy including identifying target markets, messaging, and positioning for Foundation AI's open source security models.

Develop Core Product Positioning, Messaging, and Differentiators :

Enable Sales and Partners :

Conduct Market Research :

Influence Partners, including Executives :

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years in enterprise / b2b tech with at least 5 years of product management experience, including at least 3 in network security

AI / ML product experience, including areas such as AI model development, training pipelines, model evaluation, and integration into enterprise workflows

Experience with agentic AI systems, multi-agent architectures, and AI reasoning models

Knowledge of SOC operations, security orchestration platforms, and threat detection workflows

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related fields

Preferred Qualifications

Product marketing experience

Product and market understanding of enterprise security

Experience marketing open source AI / ML models or security tools

Deep product and market understanding of enterprise security operations and AI supply chain security

Experience with AI security trends, including generative AI, adversarial threats, model poisoning, governance, and compliance.

Familiarity with Splunk ecosystem and SOC analyst workflows

Understanding of model deployment considerations (on-premises, air-gapped environments, cloud)

Familiarity with modern application security practices, including Kubernetes, DevOps, and DevSecOps.

MBA

Experience speaking publicly to an executive-level audience

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.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $191,400.00 to $281,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and / or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies :