Sr Director, Marketing Technology and Transformation

The application window is expected to close on: 11/16/2026

Location:

Remote:
San Jose, CA, RTP NC or Austin, Texas or any other US location

Travel: up to 25%

Marketing Operations enables Cisco's global go-to-market strategy by building a connected, intelligent, and increasingly agentic Mar Tech ecosystem. We connect marketing priorities with scalable technology, data, and processes to improve customer experiences, operational efficiency, and business performance. We partner across Marketing, Analytics, IT, and Data Engineering to turn customer insights into measurable outcomes.

As Sr Director, Mar Tech Technology and Transformation, you will define and govern the enterprise Mar Tech strategy, target architecture, and roadmap-evolving fragmented platforms into an integrated, AI-enabled ecosystem. You will lead a cross functional team driving architecture governance, technology and integration decisions, and business and technical ways of working. Your work will simplify the stack, manage technical debt, enable agentic marketing capabilities, and maximize the value of Mar Tech investments.

• Define the enterprise Mar Tech strategy, target architecture, and roadmap;
• Lead architecture governance, investment management, budget reviews and rationalization strategy
• Assess platform capabilities and gaps, simplify the technology ecosystem, and translate business priorities into scalable architecture and implementation plans.
• Lead cross-functional transformation from roadmap through implementation, and continuous improvement; manage risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Build alignment with senior marketing and technology leaders and implementation partners around priorities, architecture decisions, and operating models.
• Synthesize complex technical concepts into concise, executive presentations that communicate impact and visions required to drive alignment and action.

• 15+ years of progressive marketing technology leadership in an enterprise B2B or consulting environment
• Experience managing large scale marketing transformations across cross functional teams.
• Experience with enterprise marketing automation, customer data platforms, campaign orchestration, personalization, and digital experience platforms.
• Experience authoring and presenting business proposals, strategic plans, or operational reviews to executive or C-level leadership
• Bachelor’s degree

• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Experience managing Salesforce Revenue Cloud and Adobe Marketo Engage.
• Track record of driving alignment across cross-functional executive leadership.

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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ 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…