San Jose, California, United States
Remote only
Available
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
This is a remote role, offering the ability to work from any location within the U.S.
Cisco is hiring a Senior Engineering Product Manager as we own the future of the endpoint!
Cisco Secure Client is Cisco's unified endpoint security platform that works across desktop, mobile, and its management experience. The team builds security products that help people connect safely and work with confidence. We value thoughtful decisions, positive relationship building, and steady execution.
This Senior Engineering Product Manager will lead strategy, roadmap definition, and execution across several key product areas, turning customer needs and market insight into clear product decisions. We're looking for a senior product leader who can evaluate and resolve sophisticated choices, align teams, and deliver trusted experiences at scale.
This senior role offers the opportunity to shape a widely-used platform and to influence how our endpoint presence continues to evolve.
This is an outstanding chance to create a visible impact!
Your Impact
The Senior Engineering Product Manager sets direction across several product areas and connects decisions across the broader portfolio. You'll shape 18-24 month investment priorities spanning AI, connectivity, security, identity, manageability, user experience, and zero trust capabilities. By bringing together customer value, technical direction, and company priorities, you'll ensure that roadmap choices remain practical and durable.
You'll work closely with engineering, sales, support, experience, and other product managers. You'll advise on business plans, product marketing strategy, and success measures. You'll define how owned capabilities fit into the broader solution through packaging, bundling, and positioning. In partnership with engineering and leadership, you'll guide teams to navigate trade-offs involving architecture, customer impact, and market realities.
Customer learning is central to the work. In this role you'll lead validation across segments, build partners, and strategic accounts, then uses those insights to strengthen product-market fit and identify adjacent opportunities.
This Senior Engineering Product Manager will also represent the product with customers, partners, and internal collaborators as a trusted guide and advocate.
We're seeking a seasoned professional who brings focus to ambiguity and momentum to execution. We value product leaders who listen carefully, test assumptions, and turn insight into clear decisions. Strong work in this role will help teams move faster and help customers work more securely. Join us and help build what comes next!
• At least 5 years’ industry experience in a software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, IT, or a product management environment
• Experience with desktop and mobile software
• Customer engagement experience, including translating enterprise customer needs into product strategy and roadmap decisions
• Product management experience
• Bachelors + 8 years' of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
• Solid understanding of AI, security, networking, identity, endpoint management, and zero trust technologies
• Strong preference for candidates knowledgeable with endpoint security
• Preference for experience leading product strategy for desktop and mobile software at platform scale
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior partners
• Experience acting as a trusted technical advisor for engineering teams and engineering leadership
• Experience developing comprehensive product strategy for competitive analyses and market validation across multiple customers/products
• Deep understanding of endpoint security customers and markets
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include 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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
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.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$194,600.00 - $328,600.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$179,000.00 - $294,000.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
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