Leader, Product Management

Cisco•Milpitas, CA

About The Position

Cisco is evolving the enterprise campus through software-defined fabrics, cloud-managed networking, and pervasive security. This Senior Product Manager role owns strategic product areas across Campus Fabrics, Cloud Networking and Campus Security for Switching. The role is responsible for defining multi-quarter product strategy, driving cross-functional execution, and delivering secure, scalable, and operationally simple campus fabric solutions for large enterprise customers. This is a hands-on senior IC role with significant technical depth, cross-BU influence and executive visibility.

Requirements

8+ years in product management or equivalent experience in enterprise networking or infrastructure platforms.
Strong technical foundation in campus networking, switching and fabric architectures.
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
Strong communication skills; able to influence technical and executive audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cisco campus technologies (SD-Access, Catalyst, BGP EVPN) or comparable fabric solutions.
Exposure to cloud-managed networking, SaaS platforms, or hybrid operations.
Background in Zero Trust, segmentation, or distributed security enforcement.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for campus fabrics and security capabilities embedded in campus switching.
Drive roadmap prioritization and tradeoffs across hardware, software, controllers, cloud services and security integrations.
Translate complex customer, field, and market inputs into clear, actionable, and prioritized product requirements.
Partner closely with engineering to deliver high-quality releases across multiple platforms and release trains.
Lead initiatives that integrate security natively into campus fabrics, including segmentation, policy, distributed enforcement and telemetry.
Drive convergence between on-prem campus fabrics and cloud operations, improving Day-2 simplicity, visibility, and lifecycle management.
Influence architectural and investment decisions across switching, cloud, and security teams.
Engage directly with strategic customers and field teams to validate designs, guide deployments, and incorporate feedback.
Support GTM execution, enablement, customer briefings, and executive readouts.

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.