Product Manager (SaaS & Cloud)
CiscoThis position is a remote role for candidates located in the United States.
Your Impact
You’ll lead a talented team of business analysts while working closely with Cisco counterparts in Cisco IT, Cisco BE’s like collaboration, and security to drive growth and innovation across the broader Cisco ecosystem.
As Product Owner you’ll take ownership of the Product Owner team for security business unit. You will interface with cross-functional teams to solve existing challenges in new, innovative ways, and contribute to building the product teams responsible for driving our next phase of growth!
Responsibilities
* Manage the team of Business Analyst for Product CRM GTM Team
* Defining end to end product vision
* Build & design high-quality user documentation, case studies, and presentations that optimally communicate the benefits and differentiators to stakeholders
* Translate business needs into clear product requirements and actionable user stories.
* Define functional requirements, user experience (UX), and data presentation standards.
* Own product roadmaps & manage trade-offs, considering customer impact, business value, platform readiness and technical feasibility
* Make explicit prioritization decisions, balancing short-term deliverables with long term scalability
* Work closely with cross-functional teams within Cisco to deliver projects on time and within scope.
* Collaborate with business and technical teams to help prioritize features for alignment with release schedules.
* Prioritize product features, improvements, and bug fixes using data-driven methodologies.
* Define key metrics to measure implementation performance, security efficacy, and customer satisfaction.
* Serve as a domain expert for internal and external stakeholders on product capabilities and strategies.
* Act as the primary liaison between business units and technical teams to capture requirements and prioritize features
* Track and analyze performance metrics ensuring scalability, reliability, and user satisfaction.
* Partner closely with engineering, architecture and platform teams to design scalable solutions
* Involve in creating technical designs, Apis, schemas and system flows for the product alignment
Minimum Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
* 10+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record of leading enterprise/SaaS software products
* 5+ years of experience in leading product owners and Business analyst
* Experience as a Software engineer or architect
* Experience working with agile development teams and product lifecycle management tools (e.g., Jira, Aha!)
Preferred Qualifications
* Strong understanding of Cisco products, technologies and concepts
* Strong understanding of data technologies and concepts
* Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Experience managing cross-functional teams, delivering products in high-growth environment
* Demonstrated success in partnering with large enterprise teams and navigating matrix organizations.
* Hands on experience with APIs(REST/GraphQL), microservices or distributed systems
* Databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modelling and Cloud Platforms(AWS, GCP, Azure)
* Familiarity with system design, scalability and performance optimization
* Ability to read code, review designs and speak engineering fluently
* Familiarity with Cisco products and solutions and scaling products in high-growth environment
* Experience in change management for new licensing experiences
* Knowledge in licensing concepts (entitlements, consumption, term, compliance, etc.)
* Experience in Persona definition and customer journey mapping
* Preferred Knowledge on Cisco Product Licensing and telemetry
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.