Product Manager

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

RSU grants

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is hiring a Product Manager to own identity and segmentation outcomes across the Catalyst and Meraki switching portfolio.

You will define how identity from Cisco ISE and Duo becomes enforceable segmentation policy on the switch, in campus designs as well as SD-Access and EVPN fabrics, anchored to the Cisco Secure Network Reference Architecture. You will own strategy and roadmap for how switches consume identity and enforce group-based segmentation through TrustSec and related

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience including cybersecurity products such as identity and access management, zero trust, or network security.
• Experience working with customers through discovery interviews and tracking feature adoption.
• Experience architecting identity and segmentation concepts (802.1X, RADIUS, device posture, group-based policy, microsegmentation, firewall policy models).
• Prior experience with enterprise campus networking, including SD-Access or EVPN fabrics, to partner with switching platform engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and roadmap for identity-to-enforcement on Catalyst and Meraki switches across campus designs and fabrics.
• Define how identity from Cisco ISE and Duo becomes enforceable segmentation policy.
• Drive discovery, modeling, visibility and policy analytics to enable production enforcement.
• Collaborate with ISE, Duo, firewall, detection, and platform teams to land outcomes in the Cisco Secure Network Reference Architecture.
• Apply AI tools to accelerate research, requirements, and analysis throughout the product lifecycle.

Skills

Product management

Customer discovery

Identity and segmentation concepts

Enterprise networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

About the Role

Cisco's Enterprise Networking team is hiring a Product Manager to own identity and segmentation outcomes across the Catalyst and Meraki switching portfolio. This is a security product role that lives inside the network business: you will define how identity from Cisco ISE and Duo becomes enforceable segmentation policy on the switch, in traditional campus designs as well as SD-Access and EVPN fabrics, anchored to the Cisco Secure Network Reference Architecture.

Your Impact

You will own one of the highest-leverage surfaces in enterprise security: the point where identity becomes enforcement in the campus network. Own strategy and roadmap for how Catalyst and Meraki switches consume identity from Cisco ISE and Duo and enforce group-based segmentation through TrustSec, Security Group Tags, and Meraki Adaptive Policy. Define how those security outcomes layer onto both non-fabric campus designs and SD-Access and EVPN fabrics, so customers get one consistent policy model wherever they sit on the fabric journey. Drive the discovery and modeling layer that turns identity, endpoint, and flow data into enforceable switch policy: visibility, policy analytics, simulation, and staged enforcement customers can trust in production. Grow adoption of the identity-to-enforcement path that the majority of customers deploying Cisco networking and security together build on, with the switch as the enforcement point supplying policy context that Hybrid Mesh Firewall and detection services consume. Land these outcomes within the Cisco Secure Network Reference Architecture in partnership with the ISE, Duo, firewall, detection, and platform teams. Practice disciplined product management: continuous customer discovery, opportunity sizing, crisp requirements, adoption instrumentation, and launch execution with engineering, design, marketing, and sales. Use AI tools throughout the product lifecycle to compress research, requirements, and analysis cycles, and raise the bar for how the team operates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of product management experience, including building or shipping cybersecurity products: identity and access management, zero trust, network security, NAC, or firewall.
• Experience with working directly with customers through discovery interviews or similar and successful monitoring of customers adoption of new features.
• Experience architecting identity and segmentation concepts such as 802.1X, RADIUS, device posture, group-based policy, microsegmentation, and firewall policy models.
• Previous experience with enterprise campus networking, both traditional L2/L3 designs and overlay fabrics such as SD-Access or EVPN, sufficient to partner deeply with switching platform engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on product experience with identity, NAC, segmentation, or firewall platforms from any major vendor, for example Cisco ISE or Duo, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Zscaler, Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Aruba ClearPass.
• Familiarity with zero trust frameworks (NIST SP 800-207, CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model) and how campus segmentation maps to them.
• Experience defining adoption metrics and telemetry for enterprise software and using them to steer roadmap decisions.
• Daily use of AI tools in product work: research synthesis, requirements drafting, competitive analysis, or prototyping.
• Clear, concise communication with executives, customers, and field teams.

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. Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life's best work.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada

The starting salary range posted for this position is $138,100.00 to $196,500.00 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.

• medical
• dental
• vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance

Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 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 of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to 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: NewYork City Metro Area: $138,100.00 - $226,000.00 Non-Metro NewYork state & Washington state: $124,000.00 - $201,000.00 * 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.