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 : 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 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 : Create impactful technical content, training materials, and collateral for sales and partner teams. Directly engage with customers, analysts, and industry experts on AI model capabilities and integration patterns. Act as a subject matter expert and thought leader at industry events focused on AI security and SOC operations.

Conduct Market Research : Regularly analyze market trends, customer feedback, and competitor activities. Provide strategic insights to maintain product competitiveness.

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 :

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 determined by Cisco

Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows :

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%;

Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below :

New York City Metro Area : $191,400.00 - $323,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state : $176,100.00 - $287,900.00