Sr. Product Manager

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  • Location:
    Offsite, San Jose, California, US
  • Alternate Location
    Anywhere in USA
  • Area of Interest
    Business Strategy and Operations
  • Compensation Range
    165700 USD - 232900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None, Cloud & AI (DCN & Compute), Cloud and Data Center, Collaboration, Internet of Everything, Network (incl: IIoT, SD-WAN, & ThousandEyes), Security, Service Provider, Services & Software
  • Job Id
    1441691

Application window has been extended and expected to close on: June 30, 2024

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

Meet the Team

We are a highly motivated and collaborative team within Operations, passionate about driving innovation and operational excellence. Our team values creativity, critical thinking, and a results-driven approach to improve customer experience and grow market share. We work at the intersection of technology, marketing, and sales, delivering high-impact solutions that scale globally.


Your Impact

You will play a key role in strategizing and leading the full lifecycle of products—from its initial idea to its final release, ensuring it aligns with strategic goals and market needs. This is an exciting opportunity to lead cross-functional teams in crafting products that improve customer experiences and drive growth. You will focus on Marketing Automation, Market-to-Lead Management, Campaign Execution, and Sales Enablement to improve marketing efficiency at scale.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading product- and business-planning processes, analyzing customer needs, market trends, competitor offerings, and potential partnerships to find opportunities for differentiation and Return on Investment optimization.
  • Driving end-to-end product lifecycle processes, including strategy development, prototyping, detailed requirements, production timelines, and go-to-market planning across cross-functional teams.
  • Developing product strategy documents that include business cases, use cases, technical requirements, revenue projections, and Return on investment, while ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Collaborating with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product development, QA, release, and balanced resource allocation.
  • Building effective product positioning and messaging to differentiate [Company X] in primary market segments and supporting sales strategies with market data and impactful marketing communications.


Minimum Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in dynamic product or program management roles, coordinating the full product lifecycle.
  • Proven track record of managing and delivering successful product launches from conception to release.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams across Business stakeholders, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales teams.
  • Hands on experience with Marketing tech stack and have implemented Campaign management, lead scoring and management


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in product design, Computer Science or Engineering
  • Shown success as a product developer in a nonmanagerial role
  • Demonstrable knowledge of Marketo or Eloqua, CDP (Customer Data Platform), SEM (search engine marketing) and online advertising


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. Simply put – we power the future.

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. 

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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