Sr Product Manager, Technical Leader

Your Impact

As the Sr Product Manager, Technical Leader, you are the voice of the customer inside Isovalent. You will lead the vision and roadmap for Tetragon products and deliver rich eBPF-powered capabilities to Isovalent’s full customer base.

• Product Vision & Strategy: Lead the vision and roadmap for Tetragon-based products, delivering advanced eBPF-powered runtime security capabilities that enable users to detect, investigate, and mitigate cloud-native threats.
• Customer-Centric Innovation: Act as the primary voice of the customer within Isovalent, engaging directly with the user base to understand their unique challenges and translate them into actionable product requirements.
• Technical Growth & Collaboration: Collaborate with industry-leading eBPF engineers to deepen your technical expertise, driving the evolution of Kubernetes-native infrastructure security.
• Sales & Pre-Sales Enablement: Empower sales teams by providing the tools, demonstrations, and technical validation necessary to successfully articulate the value of our runtime security solutions to prospects.
• Marketing & Content Leadership: Partner with marketing to evangelize Tetragon through high-impact content, including technical blog posts, white papers, videos, and interactive labs.
• Customer Success & Community Advocacy: Support Customer Success teams in driving user adoption and represent Isovalent at industry conferences and meetups to foster the open-source eBPF and Tetragon community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 12 years, Masters + 8 years, or PhD + 5 years of related experience in product management or cybersecurity product development.
• Experience working in Cloud Native security and SecOps workflows, including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and offensive security (red/blue/purple teaming).
• Prior experience building enterprise-grade software for Fortune 500 customers, with demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation to successful launch.
• Experience leading product strategy and roadmap development, including the ability to foster collaboration and secure buy-in from diverse stakeholders across engineering, marketing, and sales departments; along with defining and communicating a unified product vision.
• Experience in the Cloud Native security competitive landscape, coupled with strong experience driving Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies and Product-Led Growth (PLG) initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and Kubernetes Security, supported by a strong technical foundation in eBPF, Linux, and kernel concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with the broader SecOps tooling ecosystem, including SIEM/log collection systems (Splunk, ELK, Google SecOps) and IDS/IPS network security tools (Suricata, Zeek, Snort, OSSEC).
• Practical knowledge of industry security frameworks and compliance standards (MITRE ATT&CK, CIS benchmarks, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, SOC2).
• Experience designing backend systems that enable growth, such as self-service provisioning or friction-free onboarding flows.
• Proven track record building products for large enterprise customers and hyperscalers, including navigating complex compliance requirements and managing global rollouts.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations is $194,600.00 to $285,700.00, 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.

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

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment. U.S. employees are also eligible for:

• 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 rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit (subject to availability and some 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
• For non-sales roles: annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies

For sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, compensation includes base pay and sales target incentive combined. Quota-based incentive pay is structured as follows: 0.75% 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. For non-quota-based sales performance elements, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.