Senior Product Manager
Cisco · San Jose, CA · 1 mo ago
Marketing$155k–$225k/yrFull-time
About the role
Meet the Team Cisco's Enterprise Networking team is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the campus threat defense portfolio end to end across the Catalyst and Meraki switching platforms. You will set the strategy for distributed firewalling at the access layer and for the security operations workflows that turn switch-level telemetry and enforcement into outcomes a SOC can act on. This is a senior security product role inside the network business, with the latitude to define the category rather than complete someone else's roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Own strategy, roadmap, business case, and launch for distributed campus firewalling: policy enforcement pushed into the access switch, spanning hardware-accelerated controls and containerized inspection services, across campus, branch, healthcare, and industrial environments.
- Partner with silicon and platform engineering to improve secure capabilities of next-generation switching hardware, including requirements that cross business unit boundaries and need to be won on merit rather than directive.
- Define the security operations workflows that connect the access layer to detection and response, spanning Secure Network Analytics, XDR, and AI-driven defensive agents, so that what the switch both sees and does become usable inside an analyst workflow.
- Lead the Splunk integration path for access-layer investigation inside Cisco Cloud Control: what telemetry lands, what context attaches to a case, and which closed-loop actions are pre-validated rather than merely possible through an API.
- Lead agentic security for the campus. Define governance and policy for registered non-human identities, and set the detection strategy for unregistered agent activity that authenticates as a human user and looks like ordinary traffic on the wire. Be clear about which half is deterministic and which is probabilistic, and build toward closing the gap.
- Be responsible for the business: sizing, attach and adoption targets, pricing and packaging input, competitive positioning, and the analyst narrative for campus security.
- Represent the portfolio in executive forums, product gate reviews, customer and partner briefings, and industry events, and carry decisions back into the roadmap.
- Set the bar for AI-native product execution on the team, using AI tools across discovery, requirements, competitive analysis, and launch to move faster than the org is used to moving.
- Mentor other product managers and raise the standard of product craft across the group.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a related technical or business field, or equivalent