Senior Product Manager

Cisco•Milpitas, MI

10d

About The Position

Cisco's Enterprise Networking team is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the campus threat defense portfolio end to end across the Catalyst and Meraki switching platforms. You will set the strategy for distributed firewalling at the access layer and for the security operations workflows that turn switch-level telemetry and enforcement into outcomes a SOC can act on. This is a senior security product role inside the network business, with the latitude to define the category rather than complete someone else's roadmap.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years delivering cybersecurity products: firewall, network detection and response, XDR, SIEM or SOC tooling, or zero trust and identity.
Experience being responsible for a portfolio end to end rather than a single feature area, including strategy, business case, roadmap, launch, and adoption against a number.
Experience security operations such as detection engineering, triage, investigation, containment, and the tooling and data that supports each.
Experience with enterprise campus networking and access-layer architecture sufficient to partner credibly with switching platform and silicon engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or MBA a plus.
Clear, concise executive communication and the judgment to know which decision belongs in which forum.
Experience delivering outcomes across organizational boundaries, including alignment with teams whose priorities are set elsewhere.
Product experience with firewall, NDR, XDR, or SOC platforms at any major vendor, for example Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Microsoft, Zscaler, or Arista.
Experience defining hardware-accelerated security enforcement, or product ownership adjacent to silicon roadmaps.
Familiarity with non-human identity, agentic AI security, and the emerging control models for AI agent traffic.
Understanding of SASE architecture and how campus and branch enforcement relate to cloud-delivered security services.
Experience with industry analyst engagement, including Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities cycles.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, roadmap, business case, and launch for distributed campus firewalling: policy enforcement pushed into the access switch, spanning hardware-accelerated controls and containerized inspection services, across campus, branch, healthcare, and industrial environments.
Partner with silicon and platform engineering to improve secure capabilities of next-generation switching hardware, including requirements that cross business unit boundaries and need to be won on merit rather than directive.
Define the security operations workflows that connect the access layer to detection and response, spanning Secure Network Analytics, XDR, and AI-driven defensive agents, so that what the switch both sees and does become usable inside an analyst workflow.
Lead the Splunk integration path for access-layer investigation inside Cisco Cloud Control: what telemetry lands, what context attaches to a case, and which closed-loop actions are pre-validated rather than merely possible through an API.
Lead agentic security for the campus. Define governance and policy for registered non-human identities, and set the detection strategy for unregistered agent activity that authenticates as a human user and looks like ordinary traffic on the wire. Be clear about which half is deterministic and which is probabilistic, and build toward closing the gap.
Be responsible for the business: sizing, attach and adoption targets, pricing and packaging input, competitive positioning, and the analyst narrative for campus security.
Represent the portfolio in executive forums, product gate reviews, customer and partner briefings, and industry events, and carry decisions back into the roadmap.
Set the bar for AI-native product execution on the team, using AI tools across discovery, requirements, competitive analysis, and launch to move faster than the org is used to moving.
Mentor other product managers and raise the standard of product craft across the group.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
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
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt employees)
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) (exempt employees)
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
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary