# Product Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $194,600.00 to $285,700.00
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Manage activities for a specific product or group of services from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Serve as the central resource collaborating with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing teams as products move to production and distribution. Oversee involvement across all stages of a product’s lifecycle, including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the product line. Coordinate departmental and cross-functional teams focused on delivering new solutions or upgrading existing products.

Own end-to-end portfolios and platform strategies spanning 18 to 24 months to drive long-term business growth. Shape platform trajectories, develop prioritization frameworks, and build multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with overall business strategies. Guide engineering teams and leadership through complex technical trade-offs as a trusted advisor. Conduct comprehensive competitive analyses and market validation to identify impactful new market opportunities and adjacencies. Evangelize products externally as the primary spokesperson while aligning multiple engineering and product teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree with 12 years of related background, or Master's degree with 8 years of related experience

- Expertise in coordinating cross-functional teams across product, solutions, and engineering

- Experience conducting competitive analysis and market validation across multiple product lines

- Experience developing validated designs, reference architectures, or technical solution documentation.

- Prior experience in Technical Marketing, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Customer Experience, or Product Management.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience driving platform strategy and initiatives for large-scale product portfolios

- History of acting as a technical advisor for engineering and product management, and guiding critical trade-off decisions

- Experience in creating technical demonstrations, solution guides, and customer-facing content that showcase Cisco architectures and design best practices.

- Extensive experience designing and deploying complex enterprise campus network architectures.

- Experience working directly with enterprise customers as a Solution Architect, Systems Engineer, Customer Experience Engineer, Technical Marketing Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 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

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- product management
- platform strategy
- competitive analysis
- market validation
- technical marketing

### Nice to have
- large-scale product portfolios
- technical advising
- enterprise campus network architectures
- solution architecture

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