Engineering Product Manager, Cisco Partner Incentive - Hybrid

Cisco; North Carolina; Híbrido; USD 116.000 - 163.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health benefits

Employee development

Descripción de la vacante

Cisco is seeking a product leader to own the lifecycle of a defined product, shaping strategy and roadmaps with minimal guidance. You will align product goals with partner and IT needs, prioritizing trade-offs and delivering features across multiple quarters.

You will work with stakeholders, influence the strategic direction, and support consulting within the partner compensation domain, leveraging Agile practices to deliver outcomes.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years in business/IT consulting, ops, or product management.
• Experience designing or optimizing business processes across multiple domains.
• Proven product management exposure: strategy, roadmap, trade-offs, change management.

Responsabilidades

• Own product roadmap and strategy over 6–12 months with minimal guidance.
• Prioritize across multiple quarters, balancing cost, complexity and impact.
• Bridge product teams, partner groups, and leadership to align needs.
• Coordinate features, gather stakeholder input, and drive execution.
• Provide input on future technical direction and support consulting efforts.

Conocimientos

Business strategy

Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional liaison

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Experience across two domains

Herramientas

Sales Performance Management tools (Varicent, Xactly)

BI/Excel data analysis

Descripción del empleo

The application window is expected to close on: 10/28/2026 The preferred location for this position is North Carolina, operating under a hybrid work model, though we are open to flexible, US-based hybrid arrangements for the right candidate.

Meet the Team

The Partner Incentive Team drives business capabilities, engagement and enablement for Cisco Partners across planning, rules definition, rebate calculation and reporting. Our team integrates expertise in CRM architecture, data governance, partner/distribution compensation, and AI-driven automation. We focus on delivering value for Cisco's partners and distributors with speed and excellence. Using Agile and hybrid methodologies, we support transformational initiatives and optimize the business (OTB) to ensure our partners' automation requirements are met with precision.

Your Impact

As the successful candidate, you will lead the product lifecycle, drive operational excellence, and build strong relationships with business and IT customers to advance shared strategic goals. You will be responsible for:

• Product Roadmap & Strategy Ownership: Maintain full ownership of a defined product roadmap, shaping strategy over 6-12-month horizons with minimal guidance.
• Strategic Prioritization: Integrate customer feedback, product performance, and dependencies to develop multi-quarter prioritization plans. You will make trade-offs regarding cost, complexity, and customer impact to ensure alignment with portfolio strategy.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as a bridge between product teams, partner groups, and leadership. You will articulate business challenges and ensure all parties are aligned on cross-functional needs.
• Requirements & Execution: Identify dependencies, coordinate new features/improvements, and implement innovative methods for gathering stakeholder input.
• Technical & Business Leadership: Provide input for future technical direction, share knowledge through internal councils, and support business consulting within the partner compensation functional area.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, operations or an equivalent, with 5+ years of combined experience in business/IT consulting, operations management, or product management.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, delivering, or optimizing business processes across at least two core business capability domains (e.g., Order Management, Incentive Compensation, Sales Performance Management, Distribution Compensation, or Business Reporting).
• Practical experience in product management fields, including product strategy, defining product roadmap, managing product trade-offs, change management, and systems management.
• Proven experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle within Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, or user story creation.
• Experience developing executive-level presentations, business cases, roadmap documentation, or decision frameworks for cross-functional business and technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of business process design, with fluency in multiple technology domains (network/infrastructure, data, applications/middleware).
• Understanding or certification in Sales Performance Management (SPM) tools such as Varicent, Xactly, and in Product / Project management / Agile methodology such as CSPO, PMP or Scaled Agile
• Basic proficiency in reporting and data analysis tools, including Business Objects and advanced Excel features.
• A track record of driving organization-wide change through significant, innovative ideas.
• Experience exploring and applying AI practices to improve daily efficiencies, team workflows, and user experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, report on, and direct multiple concurrent products or product changes across projects.

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 $115,800.00 to $163,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including inc