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About the Role
The Cisco Wireless team is seeking a Product Manager to support product management activities for our industry-leading wireless business which is 50% of the market-share in enterprise wireless. This team is responsible for both Cisco cloud managed and on prem wireless. In this role, you would be driving a wide number of high visibility initiatives, including but not limited to: evolving a winning product line strategy, building software differentiation, and ideating and executing on a strategy to develop adjacent product lines to create the next big disruption. You will actively contribute to building our vision for #simplicity while bringing together Wireless, security, AI, and intelligent API ecosystems. You will be instrumental in the expansion of our large campus wireless capabilities through collaboration with the various product teams for the extended Full Stack portfolio (e.g., MS, MX, MV, MI, Dashboard, Catalyst, Switching, and ISE)
Cisco is changing the way the industry thinks about networking, and you will own the charge to continue the evolution. You will collaborate with forward-thinking engineers and customers to help ensure that we continue to have the best wireless product portfolio in the industry in addition to the Cisco #Fullstack. You will develop technical expertise, deliver high-impact presentations, and have a real passion for evangelizing simplicity through cloud-first networking technology. You will work closely with the executive team to establish a winning strategy, and collaborate with our outstanding sales, marketing, and partner teams to ensure continued market adoption and rapid growth!
Every day is truly unlike the one before. Your penchant for approaching problems with creative solutions, sincere passion for engineering, and ambition to be part of an innovative and inspiring team, are the tools you’ll need to be a Cisco Wireless Product Manager
Responsibilities
- Actively discover and prioritize Wi-Fi and enterprise network-related customer user stories and requirements
- Work with our outstanding engineering team to build the right hardware platforms and software applications to address use cases
- Define product strategy, roadmap, positioning, and pricing.
- Assist, enable and train our growing sales team.
- Serve as a technical resource and key strategic advisor for technical and business-related matters related to our wireless portfolio.
We are looking for you if you have
- A bachelors or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- 5-10 years of work experience in Wi-Fi, networking, and related technologies (e.g. switching, routing and security)
- Strong business background is a must (ex: Product Management, MBA)
- A strong passion for data-driven decision-making in everything you do!
- Strong sense of Entrepreneurship, "can do" attitude, and ability and willingness to make an impact.
- Leadership, with outstanding interpersonal skills capable of motivating and inspiring a diverse team.
- Curiosity, with a love of new and emerging technologies in networking, security and cloud industry
- Customer empathy, with the critical thinking needed to ask the challenging questions.
- Abstract thinking and ability to spot the patterns of high-value customer problems.
- Ability to distill complicated ideas into just the right number of words.
- Experience in a customer-centric, cross-functional role, such as product manager, consulting systems engineer or technical marketing engineer.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!
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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.
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