# Intake Product Manager, Cisco Validated

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,200.00 to $201,400.00
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco's integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof.

As Product Manager, Cisco Validated Intake, you will serve as a central intake point for strategic and technical requests.

Your Impact: You will expand Cisco Validated's capacity to identify and develop cross-portfolio validation opportunities.

Responsibilities:

- Manage the central intake, triage, and prioritization of Cisco Validated opportunities.

- Conduct discovery with stakeholders to clarify the opportunity, intended outcome, strategic alignment, customer or field value, and required capabilities.

- Translate qualified requests into validation recommendations with clear scope, owners, success criteria, evidence expectations, dependencies, exclusions, and target outputs.

- Guide opportunities through the Cisco Validated intake and validation gates, preparing review materials, coordinating stakeholder input, and tracking actions and decisions.

- Maintain the Cisco Validated roadmap from initial intake through gate progression, validation execution, publication, and lifecycle review.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of industry experience or Master's degree with 4+ years of industry experience.

- 8+ years of experience in product management, product operations, portfolio management, technical operations, or related cross-functional roles.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Technical fluency with complex technology portfolios, preferably including the Cisco portfolio.

- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with shifting priorities and cross-functional dependencies.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- product operations
- portfolio management
- technical operations

### Nice to have
- technical fluency
- complex technology portfolios
- Cisco portfolio

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