You will work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, marketing, and sales, to align product strategy with business goals. Collaboration will be key as you partner with engineering teams to translate customer requirements into technical specifications. Additionally, you will collaborate with sales teams to understand customer needs and gather feedback, and work alongside marketing teams to develop effective product positioning and go-to-market strategies.

Who You Are

We are in search of a highly collaborative professional who possesses the outstanding ability to work with Engineering, Marketing, and field teams. You will play a pivotal role in influencing technical roadmaps through insightful feedback. The ideal candidate will be adept at producing detailed technical documents and presentations that bring together the essence of our products and technologies and will confidently demonstrate and present these to our customers and partners.

You have a solid understanding of SDN solutions, data center technologies, market trends, AI & ML and customer needs. You can develop and execute comprehensive product strategies and roadmaps. Your project management and organizational skills come to you naturally allowing you to effectively prioritize multiple deliverables and customers. You possess analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach (innovation, passion, dedicated mentality– add). Your outstanding communication and presentation abilities enable you to effectively convey sophisticated technical concepts to both technical and non-technical partners. You are capable of working cross-functionally and influencing without direct authority.

The responsibilities also include a willingness to travel both domestically and internationally to impart training to customers, partners, and sales teams. A strong command of orchestration technologies within a DevOps framework is crucial, including proficiency with tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Containers, Python, and scripting.

Furthermore, you will be encouraged to offer technical support and guidance to our Sales teams, enhancing their capacity to successfully market and sell our products. The role involves crafting impactful messages that resonate with clients, outlining the key challenges they face and the advantages of Cisco's solutions through various use cases. Lastly, the successful individual will demonstrate their analytical prowess and technical know-how to effectively resolve product and network-related issues, upholding our commitment to customer success and network integrity.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive Data Center product strategy especially with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) solution aligning it with the broader business goals and market demands.

Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth market research to identify customer needs, competitive landscapes, and emerging trends in data center management.

Roadmap management: Define and maintain the product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback and market opportunities.

Feature Release management: Coordinate product releases, including defining release goals, feature sets, and release schedules.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful product development, on-time delivery, and quality assurance.

Customer Engagement: Engage with customers to gather feedback, validate product requirements, and build strong customer relationships.

Our Minimum Qualifications for this role are:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering)
• 8+ years demonstrated ability in product management or equivalent.
• Experience working on data center technologies, networking, and/or cloud computing.
• Experience in the data center industry, particularly in handling data center products and solutions with in-depth knowledge of data center technologies, industry trends, and customer requirements
• Hands on experience with Cisco ACI, Nexus Dashboard, Virtualization.

Our Preferred Qualifications for this role are:

• MBA or master’s in computer science or relevant field
• Project management experience, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of software development and familiarity with software development tools and processes.
• Knowledge in Networking Security is a plus
• Certification in Product Management
• Proficient communication and presentation abilities, capable of effectively conveying technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication, and leadership skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional, dynamic environment.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

#WeAreCisco

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.