Engineering Product Manager

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What You'll Do
We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to own the growing virtual firewalling business. The cloud & virtual firewalling market is expected to grow to $3.14B by 2028, providing an opportunity for Cisco to enable customers to secure their network regardless of where it is. This role is responsible for leading the virtual form factor of Cisco's award-winning Secure Firewall Threat Defense, including driving new features and integrations, identifying new market opportunities, partnering with sales and marketing to increase sales, and long-term strategic planning with cloud services.

• Develop and drive the long-term cloud and virtual firewall strategy
• Provide technical expertise on how the firewall is deployed, operated, and ran within the customer infrastructure
• Passionately represent the voice of our customers to internal teams, partners, and other stakeholders
• Partner with PMs to prioritize and understand customer and user needs in-depth and translate those needs into a compelling product roadmap.
• Build and maintain relationships with cloud service providers to drive cloud integrations and innovations

Who You'll Work With
In this role, you will lead a team of super passionate and dedicated engineers, marketing managers, cloud providers, leadership, and enablement specialists. With this team, you are empowered to build features and find routes to markets to expand the virtual firewall reach.
Outside of Cisco, you will partner with technology providers (cloud providers, network providers, hardware vendors, etc), managed service providers, and customers to solve tough problems, create new innovations, and win business.
Who You Are
Your customers and teammates see you as customer focused, collaborative, data-driven, articulate, and a leader passionate about solving problems. As a result, you have a track record of developing products, solving exciting customer technology problems, and winning large deals.
Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in either product management or network security
• One or more certifications in networking or network security. Examples are Cisco CISSP, Cisco CCIE, Palo Alto Networks PCCET, or Check Point CSA
• Experience in at least one primary cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
• Experience engaging with internal/external customers to resolve issues
• Experience building partnerships with technology, service, and implementation partners

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing Cisco Secure Firewall and other Cisco Security technologies
• Experience and proficient with managing firewalling (L3/L7 to L7) in an enterprise network
• Experience managing large initiatives and customer engagements
• Experience presenting technical topics to large audiences, such as technology conferences, webinars, or internal trainings
• Experience leading a cross-functional team of engineers, marketing managers, lawyers, and other partners to build product
• Understanding of software-defined networking, network function virtualization architectures, and infrastructure orchestration automation toolsets (like Terraform)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related degree (or equivalent experience)
• MBA from an accredited university

Why Cisco Secure
We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.
Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.
We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!
There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here!
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:.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 on incentive compensation.For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.