Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is hiring an Engineering Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of its Resilient Infrastructure program within the Security & Trust Organization. The role coordinates cross-functional product, engineering, security, sales, and customer experience teams, guides program priorities, and provides transparent progress updates to executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the strategy and execution of Resilient Infrastructure, ensuring continued program execution with high visibility, transparency, and accountability across major product and platform areas
- Coordinate with platform and security leadership partners to track and lead execution against roadmaps, engaging deeply on the technical substance to identify risk and escalate appropriately to principal engineering leadership
- Shape and guide the program's strategic direction by defining the next phases of work, identifying emerging priorities, and championing new opportunities to extend the Resilient Infrastructure approach into new products and platforms
- Partner with internal security research, product-security incident response teams, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to define program work, align customer-facing messaging, and respond to customer inquiries
- Build and maintain accurate, up-to-date transparency into program progress for senior and executive leadership, representing the program directly in executive-level conversations and ensuring internal and external messaging stays aligned
Skills
- Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience
- Proven experience in product management, technical program management, or security program leadership within a large, multi-platform engineering organization
- Technical proficiency in product and network security, including attack surface reduction, secure-by-default design, and detection and response
- Proven ability to influence across cross-functional teams and excellent executive communication skills to synthesize sophisticated technical information for senior audiences
- Demonstrated critical thinking with experience shaping program direction and priorities, bringing structure and accountability to ambiguous programs
- Experience with enterprise networking platforms (routers, switches, firewalls, identity/access management systems) or equivalent multi-platform environments
- Familiarity with product security incident response processes, vulnerability lifecycle management, or product security domains
- Experience supporting customer-facing security incident response and translating technical security capabilities into go-to-market messaging
- Prior experience briefing executive level partners on security program status, risks, and landmarks
- Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-platform programs spanning multiple product lines or business units
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 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 determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 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 participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- 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, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
- Hybrid work in Raleigh, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; or Chicago, Illinois; possible U.S. remote
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