Senior Director: Product Management

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    Remote, United States of America
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Pre Sales and Product Management
  • Compensation Range
    274900 USD - 371500 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking, Security and Observability, Software Development
  • Job Id
    1439670

The application window is expected to close on May 15, 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applicants are received.


Preference will be given to candidates local to SF Bay Area. 

Meet the Team

Join the pioneering team behind Cisco Isovalent — the creators of eBPF, Cilium, and Tetragon — driving innovation in cloud-native networking and security. Now part of Cisco’s Security, Data Center, Internet, & Cloud Infrastructure (SDICIC) group, the Isovalent team continues to lead in building cutting-edge solutions for Kubernetes and modern cloud workloads. As part of the Isovalent executive leadership team, you’ll work with passionate engineers and product minds shaping the future of secure, observable, and scalable infrastructure.

Your Impact

As the Senior Director of Product Management, you will lead the strategy and execution for the full Isovalent platform, including networking, network security, load-balancing, runtime security, and observability. This role reports into a VP within Cisco’s Security, Data Center, Internet, & Cloud Infrastructure (SDICIC) organization and is part of the Isovalent executive leadership team. It offers significant visibility at the SVP and CPO level. You’ll manage and grow a world-class PM team, partner cross-functionally, and drive innovation across one of Cisco’s most exciting open source-based platforms

  • Define and lead product strategy across the Isovalent platform

  • Drive execution in partnership with engineering, sales, and customer success

  • Engage directly with strategic customers to deeply understand challenges and drive adoption

  • Represent the product in internal leadership forums and at industry events

  • Build and scale the product management function and processes

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management or related roles in enterprise infrastructure software

  • 10+ years in customer-facing roles in cloud/data center networking or security

  • 3+ years hiring, coaching and mentoring a product management team

  • 3+ years of experience in a leadership role in a large enterprise infrastructure company

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with open source-based commercial products is highly desirable

  • Strong communication skills (written, visual, and presentation)

  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build consensus on product strategy

  • Experience working with Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem

  • Expertise in networking, network security, load-balancing, and runtime security

  • Proven ability to navigate complex orgs and drive alignment on strategy

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Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best. 

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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