Engineering Product Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is transforming networking with cloud-managed and hybrid platform experiences. We seek a senior product leader to define use cases, partner with engineering and design, and drive multi-quarter strategies across Networking, Security, and Collaboration units.

You will work with executives and cross-functional teams to align roadmaps, accelerate growth, and deliver customer-centric enterprise SaaS solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in product management or technical product leadership building enterprise SaaS or cloud-managed platform software.
• Demonstrated technical background collaborating with engineering and architecture teams on complex software projects.

Responsibilities

• Define customer use cases and requirements to unify Cisco networking solutions into a cohesive platform across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
• Partner with engineering and product design to simplify and unify the customer experience across Cisco.
• Drive multi-quarter product strategies and collaborate with leadership to support sales, marketing, and partner motions for rapid market adoption.

Skills

Product management leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical background

Engineering collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Meet the Team

At Cisco, we simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We're making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.

Cisco is transforming how the industry thinks about networking, and our team is driving this evolution. Teaming up with forward-thinking engineers, designers, and customers, we are unifying the network management experience across Cisco's portfolio into a cohesive approach within Cisco Cloud Control. You will partner with networking leadership, executive teams, and cross-functional sales, marketing, and partner teams to deliver groundbreaking cloud-managed and hybrid networking platform experiences that drive rapid global growth.

Your Impact

• Discover, prioritize, and define customer use cases and requirements to unify Cisco networking solutions into a cohesive platform with a seamless experience across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments.
• Partner closely with engineering and product design to simplify, streamline, and unify the customer experience across the broader Cisco organization.
• Accelerate Networking's business growth by developing an integrated purchase, installation, expansion, and renewal lifecycle aligned with the wider Cisco portfolio.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within Networking, Security, and Collaboration business units to align roadmaps and drive measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Work closely with executive leadership to build multi-quarter product strategies and support sales, marketing, and partner motions for rapid market adoption.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of related experience, Master's degree with 8+ years of related experience, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product management or technical product leadership building enterprise SaaS or cloud-managed platform software.
• Demonstrated technical background collaborating directly with engineering and architecture teams on complex software and platform projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience partnering with UX/Product Design teams to create intuitive, simplified, and delightful enterprise customer journeys.
• Deep customer empathy with a passion for understanding core user challenges and solving complex technical problems with innovative frameworks.
• Technical curiosity and domain knowledge across enterprise networking, data center, cloud infrastructure, and emerging technologies.
• Demonstrated track record of breaking down organizational silos and driving cross-functional alignment across diverse, matrixed business units.

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 $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

$171,600.00 - $281,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$151,300.00 - $250,900.00

* 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.