What You’ll DoYou'll distill the Firewall Management vision into a compelling roadmap that delivers differentiated outcomes and a delightful user experience to Network Security customers.
You'll partner with our Platform and AI teams to coordinate Firewall with the Cisco Security Cloud.
- Manage and prioritize the Firewall Management roadmap supported by customer evidence and business justification
- Write Product Requirements Documents, prioritize features and trade-offs, develop a feature roadmap, that creates the most value for customers while balancing the investment required from the business and work closely with engineering to deliver the roadmap.
- Collaborate with design, engineering, support, and field teams to improve existing workflows and team processes and successfully deliver products.
What we're looking for- Technical Acuity: You collaborate with engineering to understand technical tradeoffs and their impact on the product. Being comfortable with networking and security technologies is an asset.
- Product Sense: Our favorite product managers bring together insights from every corner (customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams) to design and focus on excellent product experiences.
- Curiosity: The best candidates understand that creativity and growth start with a curiosity and humility, 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: The best candidates are inquisitive, hard-working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are a team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
Who You Are:You are a passionate and ambitious Product Manager, experienced in delivering customer value and working with distributed engineering teams.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience in an agile environment at a successful company in the security, infrastructure, networking, or a related software field with Hardware or SaaS product knowledge.
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related technical field or an MBA with an established technical foundation.
- Confident in writing user stories and acceptance criteria and comfortable letting your written words speak for you across teams and time zones.
- A believer in lean startup principles, user experience, and design thinking.
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).