Engineering Product Manager, Cisco Partner Incentive - Hybrid
About The Position
The Engineering Product Manager will lead the product lifecycle for Cisco’s Partner Incentive capabilities, drive operational excellence, and build relationships with business and IT customers to advance shared strategic goals. The Partner Incentive Team supports Cisco Partners through planning, rules definition, rebate calculation, and reporting. It brings together expertise in CRM architecture, data governance, partner and distribution compensation, and AI-driven automation, using Agile and hybrid methodologies to deliver partner value and optimize business operations. The role owns a defined product roadmap and shapes strategy over 6–12-month horizons with minimal guidance. It combines customer feedback, product performance, and dependencies to develop multi-quarter priorities and make trade-offs involving cost, complexity, and customer impact. The manager connects product teams, partner groups, and leadership; coordinates requirements and feature improvements; contributes to future technical direction; and supports business consulting in the partner compensation functional area.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology, operations, or an equivalent qualification.
- 5+ years of combined experience in business/IT consulting, operations management, or product management.
- Hands-on experience designing, delivering, or optimizing business processes across at least two core business capability domains, such as Order Management, Incentive Compensation, Sales Performance Management, Distribution Compensation, or Business Reporting.
- Practical product management experience, including product strategy, roadmap definition, product trade-offs, change management, and systems management.
- Experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle within Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe, including sprint planning, backlog prioritization, or user story creation.
- Experience developing executive-level presentations, business cases, roadmap documentation, or decision frameworks for cross-functional business and technical leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of business process design and fluency across multiple technology domains, such as network/infrastructure, data, and applications/middleware.
- Understanding of or certification in Sales Performance Management (SPM) tools such as Varicent or Xactly, and in product, project management, or Agile methodologies, such as CSPO, PMP, or Scaled Agile.
- Basic proficiency in reporting and data analysis tools, including Business Objects and advanced Excel features.
- Track record of driving organization-wide change through significant, innovative ideas.
- Experience exploring and applying AI practices to improve daily efficiencies, team workflows, and user experience.
- Ability to plan, report on, and direct multiple concurrent products or product changes across projects.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain a defined product roadmap, shaping product strategy over 6–12-month horizons with minimal guidance.
- Develop multi-quarter prioritization plans by integrating customer feedback, product performance, and dependencies.
- Make product trade-offs involving cost, complexity, and customer impact in alignment with portfolio strategy.
- Bridge product teams, partner groups, and leadership, articulating business challenges and aligning stakeholders on cross-functional needs.
- Identify dependencies, coordinate new features and improvements, and implement innovative methods for gathering stakeholder input.
- Provide input on future technical direction.
- Share knowledge through internal councils and support business consulting within the partner compensation functional area.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Personal wellness days
- Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
- Sick time off
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales employees
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
