Bay Area Hybrid Product Growth & Strategy Lead

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Stock grants

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior leader in Data Center Networking to drive growth and market expansion. You will align product, marketing, and engineering to craft compelling value propositions for enterprise customers and developers.

You will collaborate across teams to translate complex networking technologies into practical customer benefits, while guiding programs that expand the ecosystem and accelerate adoption in hybrid cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of B2B technology product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience developing GTM strategies, product positioning, messaging, and launch plans for enterprise tech products.
• Experience with data center networking, cloud infrastructure, automation technologies, IaC, or cloud-native networking.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth strategies across Cisco's Data Center Networking portfolio to accelerate adoption and market expansion.
• Develop initiatives linking emerging tech trends, developer engagement, and customer needs to scalable outcomes.
• Partner with product management, engineering, sales, and developer relations to translate networking tech into customer value.
• Build developer and community programs through content, events, workshops, and ecosystem partnerships.
• Support customers in modernizing infrastructure operations via automation, IaC, cloud-native networking, and intelligent management.

Skills

B2B product management

Go-to-market strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Enterprise networking

Marketing strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Data center networking

Cloud infrastructure

Automation technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud-native networking

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a senior leader in Data Center Networking to drive growth and market expansion. You will align product, marketing, and engineering to craft compelling value propositions for enterprise customers and developers.

You will collaborate across teams to translate complex networking technologies into practical customer benefits, while guiding programs that expand the ecosystem and accelerate adoption in hybrid cloud environments.