Intake Product Manager, Cross-Portfolio Validation

Cisco Systems, Inc; North Carolina; On-site; USD 139,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for Cisco Validated Intake. You will serve as the central intake point for strategic requests, guiding them through validation gates and maintaining the CV roadmap.

You will partner with Cisco Validated TMEs and stakeholders to ensure requests are defined, aligned to priorities, and ready for review. You will translate opportunities into actionable validation recommendations, drive discovery with stakeholders, and coordinate cross-functional

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or related cross-functional roles.
• Experience managing intake, stage-gate progression, and lifecycle progression.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requests into opportunities and recommendations.
• Experience guiding cross-functional work across product, engineering, marketing, architecture, sales, and leadership.
• Strong communication and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the central intake, triage, and prioritization of Cisco Validated opportunities.
• Conduct discovery with stakeholders to clarify the opportunity, intended outcome, strategic alignment, customer or field value, and required capabilities.
• Translate qualified requests into validation recommendations with clear scope, owners, success criteria, evidence expectations, dependencies, exclusions, and target outputs.
• Guide opportunities through the Cisco Validated intake and validation gates, preparing review materials and tracking actions.
• Maintain the Cisco Validated roadmap from intake through gate progression, validation execution, publication, and lifecycle review.
• Coordinate cross-functional handoffs and maintain visibility as approved work moves through execution and publication.
• Improve intake practices, gate criteria, templates, and operating mechanisms based on lessons learned.

Skills

Product management

Portfolio management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder discovery

Roadmap planning

Communication skills

Gate processes

Strategic alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for Cisco Validated Intake. You will serve as the central intake point for strategic requests, guiding them through validation gates and maintaining the CV roadmap.

You will partner with Cisco Validated TMEs and stakeholders to ensure requests are defined, aligned to priorities, and ready for review. You will translate opportunities into actionable validation recommendations, drive discovery with stakeholders, and coordinate cross-functional