Engineering Product Manager

Application window expected to close on 08/10/2026; posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or sufficient applications are received.

About the Team

The Cisco Cloud Control team is building a common operating layer across Cisco's cloud-managed and controller-based products. Shared platform services allow customers to understand and manage their environment across product boundaries. This role sits in the group responsible for assurance, topology, data ingestion, and shared data services. The team partners with controller teams and ThousandEyes, and works closely with Splunk, AI Canvas, security, support, and customer-facing organizations. The work gives Cloud Control the trusted context required for operational use cases that no single product can support alone.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for the Cisco Cloud Control assurance and data platform.
• Set clear outcomes for ingestion, normalization, correlation, and data consumption.
• Define how controllers and Cisco products contribute assurance, topology, configuration, inventory, posture, and asset data.
• Establish product contracts for schema, provenance, freshness, and source ownership.
• Drive delivery of a governed data layer that creates a trusted cross-domain composite while source systems remain authoritative for their domain facts.
• Turn the platform into customer-facing capabilities for client-to-cloud intent validation, cross-domain root cause analysis, formal verification, compliance evidence, and recommended remediation.
• Lead execution across product and engineering organizations.
• Set measurable targets for source onboarding, data quality, latency, scale, reliability, adoption, and support readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 8+ years of related experience, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
• 8+ years of product management, technical product management, or platform product management experience in cloud, networking, observability, or enterprise infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience working with data platforms, network assurance, telemetry systems, distributed systems, or related platform services.
• Experience defining data ingestion, schema, API or event contracts, normalization, data quality, lineage, and provenance requirements.
• Experience leading a platform initiative from product definition through production delivery across multiple engineering and product teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with network controllers, network assurance, topology, configuration management, or client-to-cloud observability.
• Experience designing product requirements for streaming and batch ingestion, entity resolution, historical data, and correlation services.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis, intent validation, formal verification, policy evaluation, or pre-change analysis.
• Experience integrating with platforms such as ThousandEyes, Splunk, ServiceNow, or AI and agent workflow systems.
• Ability to make technical trade-offs clear to senior leaders and align teams that have separate roadmaps and ownership models.

About 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. 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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $169,300.00 to $237,200.00 for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Full salary ranges for specific locations:

• New York City Metro Area: $194,600.00 - $328,600.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $179,000.00 - $294,000.00

For quota-based sales roles, the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Eligibility for grants of Cisco restricted stock units, vesting over time
• Paid time off:
  • 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
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
  • Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off with no defined limit (subject to business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies
• For sales roles: Performance-based incentive pay split between quota and non-quota components