Senior Director, Global Cisco Live Portfolio

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.