Platform Product Manager - Enterprise Cloud Studio

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for Cisco Studio within the Cloud Control Studio family.

You will own outcomes across the application lifecycle, collaborating with engineering, architecture, security, identity, and IT teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software in production. You will define how applications and agents behave across packaging, deployment, upgrades, and administration, steward platform building blocks, and translate broad problems into scoped

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience, Master's degree plus 8 years of related experience, or PhD plus 5 years of related experience in product management, software engineering, or technical product leadership for software products.
• Prior experience in software product management with requirements, prioritization, and roadmap decisions for enterprise software.
• Applied experience working on an enterprise application platform, developer platform, cloud platform, or multi-tenant SaaS product where third parties or customers deploy software onto your platform.
• Experience leading at least one technically complex capability in application lifecycle management, packaging and deployment, versioning and upgrades, customer administration, runtime governance, or platform operations from definition through production launch and customer use.
• Previous background leading cross‑functional delivery with engineering, design, and at least one of security, identity, operations, or customer‑facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for your area, from customer and administrator discovery through product definition, engineering delivery, production validation, and continued improvement
• Define how applications and agents behave consistently across packaging, deployment, versioning, automated upgrades, customer administration, identity and authorization, multi-tenant boundaries, persistent data, observability, and operations, and make those behaviors platform defaults rather than per-application decisions.
• Steward the platform building blocks that applications are composed of, so that new capabilities and runtime resources can be added by other teams while preserving one coherent customer and administrator experience.
• Translate broad, open problems into well-scoped releases with clear acceptance criteria, sequencing decisions, and measurable exit conditions, setting clear priorities on what ships now, what is simplified, and what comes next.
• Validate delivered capabilities in real customer workflows and environments-not only in demonstrations-using prototypes, APIs, logs, and product instrumentation to test assumptions and drive open questions to resolution with evidence.
• Bring engineering, design, security, identity, platform, operations, and go‑to‑market teams to clear product decisions, and communicate direction and trade‑offs credibly to executives, customers, and technical partners.

Skills

Product management

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Enterprise software

Cross-functional delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for Cisco Studio within the Cloud Control Studio family.

You will own outcomes across the application lifecycle, collaborating with engineering, architecture, security, identity, and IT teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable software in production. You will define how applications and agents behave across packaging, deployment, upgrades, and administration, steward platform building blocks, and translate broad problems into scoped