Senior Manager, Pricing Strategy and Monetization (Remote)

About the Team

Join Cisco’s Pricing Strategy and Monetization team—an essential part of our Product Organization—where innovation meets impact! We develop pricing strategies, drive monetization initiatives, and optimize pricing models to enable Cisco’s platformization strategy, accelerate AI-driven offerings, and unlock cross-sell and upsell potential across our global portfolio.

Your Impact

We are seeking a strategic and analytical pricing professional to support the development of pricing and monetization strategies across Cisco’s portfolio of hardware and software solutions. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Pricing Strategy and Monetization, you will help build how Cisco captures value in a driven, constantly evolving market—ensuring we lead with both innovation and discipline.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development and execution of pricing strategies across Cisco’s product portfolio.
• Collaborate with product management, strategy, engineering, finance, GTM, operations, and sales to deliver actionable pricing and packaging strategies.
• Support annual pricing reviews to identify improvement opportunities across monetization models and packaging structures.
• Conduct competitive and market analysis to benchmark pricing trends and innovations within the high-tech industry.
• Analyze customer buying behaviors, price elasticity, and willingness to pay to inform and optimize pricing strategies.
• Lead the development of scalable pricing capabilities and tools for the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience, or 7+ years of experience with an MBA or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in pricing strategy, product management, or business strategy, within Data platform, cybersecurity, SaaS, or top-tier consulting firms.
• Experience with different pricing models, including subscription, consumption-based, and perpetual licensing.
• Experience in data analytics, financial modeling, and pricing analytics.
• Experience working cross-functionally and managing multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with pricing tools and analytical platforms (e.g. Excel, Tableau, SQL, or similar).
• Previous experience at a top-tier management consulting firm.
• Previous experience working at a cybersecurity / Data platform company.

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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $199,200.00 to $273,800.00 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. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $199,200.00 - $317,600.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $179,900.00 - $291,700.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Paid time away:
  • 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, with no defined limit on vacation time (subject to availability and 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 may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• Eligibility to earn annual bonuses (for non-sales roles) or performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles), subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.