Role Description 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. You will lead an award-winning, world-class team responsible for Cisco’s flagship customer conference brand. You will directly manage a core team of 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. 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. 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. Requirements - 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. Benefits - Medical, dental and vision insurance. - 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution. - Paid parental leave. - Short and long-term disability coverage. - Basic life insurance. - 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. - 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees. - Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees. - 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter. - Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.