Description
The Cisco Cloud Control team is building a unified operating experience across Cisco's networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration products.
As a Cloud Control Product Manager, you will own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for Cisco Cloud Control on-premises deployments and sovereign cloud offerings.
Key responsibilities:
- Define supported deployment profiles and product boundaries for connected, intermittently connected, disconnected, and jurisdiction-specific environments.
- Set product requirements for installation, upgrades, version compatibility, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, serviceability, capacity expansion, and secure decommissioning.
- Translate sovereignty, data residency, identity, encryption, privileged access, audit, operational control, support, and regional continuity needs into clear product capabilities and release criteria.
- Lead execution across engineering, security, compliance, legal, operations, support, and integrated product teams, setting measurable outcomes for deployment success, upgrade reliability, availability, recovery, supportability, and customer adoption.
Requirements:
- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
- 5+ years of experience working with customer-managed enterprise software, hybrid or private cloud, sovereign cloud, appliances, or distributed platforms.
- Experience defining production requirements for installation, upgrades, version compatibility, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, security, data residency, or operational support.
- Experience leading at least one multi-team product or platform initiative from discovery and product definition through production delivery.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms, virtual or physical appliances, private cloud, or disconnected deployments.
- Knowledge of data, operational, and technological sovereignty requirements, including residency, local control, audit, and continuity considerations.
- Experience defining lifecycle products for software installation, upgrade orchestration, rollback, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, and secure decommissioning.
- Experience defining identity, PKI, secrets, encryption, role-based access, audit, and secure support requirements for customer-controlled environments.
- Ability to explain technical and regulatory tradeoffs to senior leaders and align teams with separate roadmaps, operating models, and ownership boundaries.
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.
- Paid time away.
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
Salary range: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 per year