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