JOB DESCRIPTION

What You'll Do

Networking Experiences Business is seeking a Senior Product Manager professional to join its Security Policy and Access  team. Cisco is leading the disruption that is occurring in Connectivity and Security infrastructure. The increased adoption of Hybrid work, Cloud & SaaS applications coupled with the dramatic shift of Threat attack surface on corporate networks is causing enterprises to rethink how they architect their Access security policy models and Network Security designs.  You will be responsible for building security capabilities that complement the Networking portfolio

Who You'll Work With

The Network experiences group is Cisco's largest business group by revenue, profit, and contribution margin. The Security Policy and Access team drive multi-million dollars of revenue with products that integrate industry-leading Network security features. Customers range from small businesses to the world's largest retailers, financial institutions, and IT service providers. Our customers likely include your bank, apparel retailer, grocery store, superstore, and maybe even your favorite coffee shop. Driving innovation and increased customer value has enabled Cisco Networking Experiences to maintain market share leadership in a competitive environment.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications:

·       Strong background in Security and Networking

·       Full ownership of the feature set and prioritization for Security Software innovations 

·       Market and customer analysis, requirements development, business case, collateral, product strategy, and product positioning

·       Ability to work effectively with all areas of the organization, from engineering to sales

·       Customer engagement and relationship development for product evangelism, and requirements gathering

·       Feature prioritization and tradeoff decision making

- 7+ years of product management experience

·       Strong domain knowledge on forwarding protocols(BGP, OSPF), NAT, Security protocols (Crypto, IPSEC, PKI, Trustsec, Anti-malware, Network based Threat Detection Response, Firewalls etc)

- Must be hands-on with the ability to define the key features of the solution

- 7+ years of experience engineering scalable and highly available enterprise networks

- 7+ years of relevant technology experience

·       MBA preferred not mandatory

- BS / MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences

Why Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:
 

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. 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. 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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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.