Principal Product Manager

Director Of Product For Cisco Cloud Control

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Your Impact : As a Director of Product for Cisco Cloud Control, you will be responsible for the team bringing new and innovative SaaS platform capabilities to Cisco's customers and to our own product teams. You will deeply understand customer problems and the competitive landscape while focusing the team on the most appropriate segments and building a product roadmap to address the most relevant customer struggles. You will launch new features and capabilities, test their performance and experience, and iterate quickly. You will tackle business plans, ROI analysis, crafting product positioning, buyer and user personas, use cases, and requirements. You will work closely with software engineers to iterate on and build solutions to the customer problems you have identified. You will measure and monitor user experience to ensure products continuously deliver meaningful customer value and excellent user experience. Your role will put you at the nexus of business growth, revenue retention, new offer launch activities, and enablement.

If this sounds like an exciting role, we look forward to speaking with you! You are comfortable interacting with senior management and peers and serving as their go to thought partner. You design and implement product features and programs that drive customer adoption, retention and growth, and track this success via metrics and data that you use to inform decisions and measure impact. You use customer-centric product strategy, developing and executing product roadmaps that prioritize customer needs, difficulties, and success metrics. You are a strong communicator, present with confidence and can influence partners at all levels of the organization. Your prior roles were in a fast-paced environment leading multiple product managers and driving successful cross-functional engagement with related internal partners. Analytical with a creative mind, able to juggle many projects, manage expectations across multiple partners and process driven to address strategic challenges. Fast learner, able to understand new technologies and process changes and can synthesize strategic inputs from multiple diverse sources, including product leadership, engineering, and sales teams. Flexible and adaptable to shift strategies and tactics when required while being detail oriented, well organized, efficient with time management. You enjoy leading people and love to roll up your sleeves to get stuff done!

Minimum Qualifications

BA / BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

10+ years of professional work experience in a product management or a related role

7+ years of work experience with SaaS products, engineering practices, business metrics, and product metrics

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading a team of Product Managers and / or Engineering professionals

Proven understanding of SaaS go-to-market (GTM) principles and practices

Experience delivering security SaaS products

Experience delivering components of a SaaS Cloud Platform

Ability to connect with Senior Leaders and Executives clearly and with

Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally within an organization to successfully deliver products to market

Ability to understand, decompose, prioritize and manage sophisticated cross-functional programs and initiatives

Ability to quickly acquire new skills and knowledge to solve any problem facing the business, even in areas that may be unfamiliar.

Ability to engage on a technical level with engineers, partners, and customers.

Ability to influence and negotiate with others using soft skills in a matrixed environment.

Experience with networking products

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.

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $225,000.00 to $325,300.00 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. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies : 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 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 : New York City Metro Area : $225,000.00 - $374,100.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state : $208,600.00 - $330,000.00 Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements. Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.