Engineering Product Manager, Cisco Partner Incentive - Hybrid

Cisco Systems, Inc; San Jose (CA); Híbrido; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cisco Systems, Inc. is looking for a product leader to own the lifecycle of a defined product and drive strategy over a 6–12 month horizon.

You will coordinate with product teams, partner groups, and leadership to ensure alignment with portfolio goals and deliver customer-focused features. You will translate business needs into actionable roadmaps, make trade-offs on cost and impact, and contribute to future technical direction while applying Agile methods at scale.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 5+ years in business/IT consulting, operations, or product management.
• Experience designing, delivering, or optimizing business processes across core capabilities such as Order Management, Incentive Compensation, Sales Performance Management, Distribution Compensation, or Business Reporting.
• Proven product management experience including strategy, roadmaps, trade-offs, change management, and systems management.
• Experience delivering projects across Agile lifecycles (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with sprint planning and backlog prioritization.
• Ability to present at executive levels and develop business cases and roadmaps for cross-functional leadership.

Responsabilidades

• Own the product roadmap and strategy over 6–12 months, with minimal guidance.
• Prioritize initiatives based on customer feedback, performance, and dependencies.
• Coordinate across product teams, partner groups, and leadership to align cross-functional needs.
• Identify dependencies, plan new features, and drive stakeholder input.
• Provide input on future technical direction and support business consulting within partner compensation.

Conocimientos

Product roadmap ownership

Strategic prioritization

Cross-functional alignment

Requirements & execution

Technical & business leadership

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology, operations or an equivalent

Herramientas

Varicent

Xactly

CSPO

PMP

Scaled Agile

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