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Cisco Director Product Management United States, California, San Jose 875594326
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*Application window is being extended, expected to close May 12, 2025
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Your Impact
In this exciting role, you will be an integral part of the product team helping to steer the product roadmap to meet current and future needs of our customers. You will serve as a technical liaison to the field, channel partners and customers to ensure they understand product capabilities and benefits while in turn gathering value input on requirements and knowledge of how the industry is evolving.
- Define product vision, strategy and feature roadmap for Nexus switching, Automation and Controller products by working closely with customers and multi-functional Cisco teams (sales, technical marketing, engineering, customer experience delivery and partners).
- Build detailed technical product requirements, scope, release and measure features to ensure the customer and business goals are met.
- Develop strategic and creative approaches to gather product and customer feedback. Leverage market research, competitive analysis, and business metrics to shape and guide product direction.
- Drive product development & backlog to build end-to-end solutions with a team of best-in-class engineers and designers.
- Build trust with peers/multi-functional teams and influence senior leaders to communicate product features vision, strategy, goals, status and customer impact.
- Focus on customer engagement, requirement gathering, sales and field collaboration, transition planning, engineering alignment, go-to-market strategies, and multi-functional coordination.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related experience in a relevant technical field.
- 12+ years’ experience in product management, product development or architecture design with a focus on technology products, machine learning and SaaS technologies.
- Demonstrable experience in building and leading high performing teams.
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge of Data Center Networking.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with customers, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs.
- Domain expertise in Switching Hardware, Networking, Automation, Analytics, AI/ML & SaaS. Mastery of technical concepts and system-design, ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs.
- Cultivate an executive presence and bring a strong mix of product management, project management, and customer experience specific acumen coupled with strategic vision and detailed execution.
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative methodologies to understand customers & the ability to explore and structure customers’ requirements.
- Ability to collaborate, build consensus, deliver, and drive technical decisions with various sized customer partner groups.
We offer extensive employee benefits including unlimited PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.
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