Senior Product Manager

Cisco; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is hiring a Senior Product Manager for the campus threat defense portfolio across Catalyst and Meraki switches. You will set the strategy for distributed firewalling at the access layer and define security operations workflows to turn telemetry into SOC-ready outcomes.

This is a senior role that defines the category and drives adoption across environments. You will own the roadmap, business case, and launches, partner with engineering, and shape AI-native product execution.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including cybersecurity.
• 4+ years delivering firewall, NDR, XDR, SIEM or SOC tooling.
• Portfolio end-to-end ownership: strategy, business case, roadmap, launch and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, roadmap, business case, and launch for distributed campus firewalling across campus, branch, healthcare and industrial environments.
• Partner with silicon and platform engineering to improve secure capabilities of next-gen switching hardware.
• Define security operations workflows that connect access layer to detection and response, across analytics and AI-driven agents.
• Lead Splunk integration path for access-layer investigations inside Cisco Cloud Control.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder management

Security operations

AI-enabled products

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Cisco Cloud Control

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 10/26/2026

Cisco's Enterprise Networking team is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the campus threat defense portfolio end to end across the Catalyst and Meraki switching platforms. You will set the strategy for distributed firewalling at the access layer and for the security operations workflows that turn switch-level telemetry and enforcement into outcomes a SOC can act on. This is a senior security product role inside the network business, with the latitude to define the category rather than complete someone else's roadmap.

Your Impact

• Own strategy, roadmap, business case, and launch for distributed campus firewalling: policy enforcement pushed into the access switch, spanning hardware-accelerated controls and containerized inspection services, across campus, branch, healthcare, and industrial environments.
• Partner with silicon and platform engineering to improve secure capabilities of next-generation switching hardware, including requirements that cross business unit boundaries and need to be won on merit rather than directive.
• Define the security operations workflows that connect the access layer to detection and response, spanning Secure Network Analytics, XDR, and AI-driven defensive agents, so that what the switch both sees and does become usable inside an analyst workflow.
• Lead the Splunk integration path for access-layer investigation inside Cisco Cloud Control: what telemetry lands, what context attaches to a case, and which closed-loop actions are pre-validated rather than merely possible through an API.
• Lead agentic security for the campus. Define governance and policy for registered non-human identities, and set the detection strategy for unregistered agent activity that authenticates as a human user and looks like ordinary traffic on the wire. Be clear about which half is deterministic and which is probabilistic, and build toward closing the gap.
• Be responsible for the business: sizing, attach and adoption targets, pricing and packaging input, competitive positioning, and the analyst narrative for campus security.
• Represent the portfolio in executive forums, product gate reviews, customer and partner briefings, and industry events, and carry decisions back into the roadmap.
• Set the bar for AI-native product execution on the team, using AI tools across discovery, requirements, competitive analysis, and launch to move faster than the org is used to moving.
• Mentor other product managers and raise the standard of product craft across the group.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field, or equivalent practical experience. Advanced degree or MBA a plus.
• 8+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years delivering cybersecurity products: firewall, network detection and response, XDR, SIEM or SOC tooling, or zero trust and identity.
• Experience being responsible for a portfolio end to end rather than a single feature area, including strategy, business case, roadmap, launch, and adoption against a number.
• Experience security operations such as detection engineering, triage, investigation, containment, and the tooling and data that supports each.
• Experience with enterprise campus networking and access-layer architecture sufficient to partner credibly with switching platform and silicon engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clear, concise executive communication and the judgment to know which decision belongs in which forum.
• Experience delivering outcomes across organizational boundaries, including alignment with teams whose priorities are set elsewhere.
• Product experience with firewall, NDR, XDR, or SOC platforms at any major vendor, for example Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Microsoft, Zscaler, or Arista.
• Experience defining hardware-accelerated security enforcement, or product ownership adjacent to silicon roadmaps.
• Familiarity with non-human identity, agentic AI security, and the emerging control models for AI agent traffic.
• Understanding of SASE architecture and how campus and branch enforcement relate to cloud-delivered security services.
• Experience with industry analyst engagement, including Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities cycles.

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 lim