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Senior Director, Global Cisco Live Portfolio

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Lead global strategy, execution, and business performance for Cisco Live across AMERICAS, EMEA, and APJC. Manage a distributed team, define multi-year roadmap, ensure brand consistency, drive OKRs and pipeline growth, integrate product launches and acquisitions, and deliver large-scale, data-driven conference experiences with operational excellence and international travel.
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The application window is expected to close on: 07/03/2026

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

This role is based in the United States and offers the flexibility to work from any location within the country. As a global leader, you will lead a distributed, high-performing team, requiring flexibility in your working hours to ensure effective collaboration across international time zones. Additionally, this position requires significant international travel, with a dedication to visit both our EMEA and APJC regions twice per year to coordinate key event execution and strategic planning milestones. 

Meet the Team 

You will lead an award-winning, world-class team responsible for Cisco’s flagship customer conference brand. You will directly manage a core team regional leads, while overseeing a broader, global organization that includes both full-time employees and contract staff. This team is at the heart of Cisco’s customer engagement strategy, tasked with delivering consistent, high-value, and innovative experiences that connect Cisco with its most important global audiences. 

Your Impact 

As the Senior Director, Global Cisco Live Portfolio, you are the visionary leader responsible for the global strategy, execution, and business performance of the Cisco Live portfolio (AMERICAS, EMEA, and APJC). Your impact includes: 

  • Global Strategy & Brand Consistency: Defining the multi-year roadmap and ensuring a cohesive, gold-standard brand experience across all regions. 

  • Operational Excellence: Leading regional teams, running global investment strategies, and integrating cutting-edge technology and sustainable practices. 

  • Business Growth: Owning Global objectives and key results (OKRs) to drive pipeline, accelerate sales cycles, and increase customer lifetime value through data-driven insights. 

  • Strategic Integration: Partnering with Business Units, Sales, and Engineering to ensure product launches and critical innovations are featured prominently, while overseeing the integration of acquired companies. 

  • Portfolio Strategy and Innovation: Leading the ongoing evolution of the portfolio by crafting a vision and strategy to meet short- and long-term goals, passionate about continuous innovation.  

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Global Event Leadership: 12+ years of experience leading large-scale, cross-functional event teams with experience leading multi-region flagship portfolios. 

  • Executive Management: 10+ years of experience handling C-suite relationships and influencing corporate strategy through experiential marketing. 

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of skills and experience.  

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Strategic Portfolio Management: Validated ability to develop and execute a global strategy that balances corporate consistency with regional market requirements. 

  • Leadership and Trust: Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to build trust and lead diverse, globally distributed teams in a highly matrixed environment. 

  • Communication Excellence: Ability to act as a master storyteller, communicating complex strategies with clarity and brevity to executive audiences, including via high-\impact presentations. 

  • Large-Scale Experience: Extensive experience working within a large global organization, with a consistent track record of leading massive, sophisticated global programs, preferably for a global technology brand.  

  • Conference Leadership: Deep expertise in leading large-scale conferences. You must understand the operational mechanics of major events, how to drive success, how to identify and mitigate common pitfalls, and how to lead effectively through the inherent uncertainty of high-stakes event execution. 

  • Business Acumen: Expert-level knowledge of OKRs, ROI modeling, and pipeline acceleration. 

  • Global Mobility: Ability and willingness to travel internationally to lead execution and planning milestones for Cisco Live AMERICAS, EMEA, and APJC.

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 $278,000.00 to $350,300.00 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%; and

  • 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:

$278,000.00 - $402,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$250,000.00 - $362,300.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.

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