What You’ll Do
Work in a fast-paced start-up-like environment defining innovation in security. You’ll distill a vision into a compelling roadmap that focuses on solving customers' complex security problems and delivering measurable customer outcomes.
Identify customer problems and work with UX and Engineering to develop customer solutions aligned with product roadmap goals.
Analyze and break-down sophisticated business problems into discrete user stories with clear acceptance criteria
Own and drive the future of AI capabilities in Cisco Hypershield
Take the lead and spearhead unknown threat detection using eBPF capabilities
Partner with UX to deliver on a generative AI based administrative experience for a security admin
Deliver intent based policy model definition and auto- generation capabilities to solve anomaly detections as well as network segmentation
Work with engineering and UX teams to deliver user stories, ensuring the product delivered meets the customer's needs.
Prioritize the product backlog, with regular reviews.
Validate requirements and resulting products with customers and design partners to ensure success.
Develop product success metrics and structure an effective experimentation framework in partnership with our research team.
Who You Are
You are a passionate and ambitious Product Manager, experienced in quickly delivering customer value and working with distributed engineering teams.
Start-up mentality: You thrive in a start-up-like environment.
Technical Acuity: Work closely with engineering to understand technical trade-offs and their impact on the product. Comfortable with networking and security technologies is an asset.
Product Sense: Bring together insights from every corner (customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams) to design and focus on excellent product experiences.
Curiosity: Understand that creativity and growth start with a curious, humble approach and asking thoughtful questions.
Ownership: The best product managers take the responsibility of delivering a successful product to heart, and step in wherever needed, even if crossing typical role boundaries; they never shy away from the details nor lose sight of the bigger picture.
Communication: Effective communication with any audience (company leadership, engineering, customers, and more) is key to success in this role.
Attitude & Ambition: inquisitive, hard-working, driven, and not afraid to fail. Team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of Product experience in a software industry
Experience building SaaS and/or software products from early stages to initial adoption.
Experience with one or more of AI, LLMs, Machine Learning and Graph Analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
You have a passion for great products with phenomenal experiences, and you believe in product simplicity.
You have experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria and are comfortable letting your written words speak for you across teams and time zones.
You're a strong advocate of lean startup principles, user experience, and design thinking.