Senior Manager Product Management: Network Data Platform and Contextual Insights

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.

This role requires passion and persuasion directed at solving issues faced by a diverse customer base through any and all means – product advocacy, content creation or whatever it takes. This position requires a well-rounded individual but someone capable of going to depth on many topics, both inbound and outbound. We are looking for someone who can distill from a complex problem landscape actionable work and lead the team to get it done. This is an extraordinary opportunity to be a product leader for the most disruptive technology in IT management, operations and data analytics today.

As with any product management role in a large IT company, day-to-day responsibilities will span the entire product management lifecycle and include deep interaction with customers, sales, and engineering. Specific responsibilities include:

• Gathering requirements from customers, sales and support and driving ongoing prioritization of product investments
• Develop detailed personas, use cases and functional requirements to communicate these needs to engineering
• Driving roadmap, requirements and feature delivery for new product features
• Collaborating with product marketing to support creation of customer driven messaging and content
• Serving as the subject matter expert for in Analytics, IT and Application Delivery on top of Data Platform.
• Note: Title will depend on the candidate’s level of experience and fit for the position.

Ideal candidates will have the following profile:

• Experience in product management or developing software
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (e.g. AppDynamics, NewRelic)
• Experience with performance tools (e.g. Cacti, etc)
• Experience with Cisco and Networking technologies : Switching, Routing, Wireless
• Experience with Software Defining Networking product lines, NFV.
• Experience with reporting and analytics solutions and a familiarity with the analytics ecosystem [Splunk, BO, LogRythm etc..]
• Experience building GUI and/or web applications and designing user experience
• Ability to write, defend and execute on business cases
• Proven ability to lead without authority

Additional:

• Web analytics products (Omniture, Google Analytics, etc) and/or web based BI tools and Splunk knowledge
• Software development lifecycle methods (e.g. waterfall, Agile / scrum) and typical process steps
• Experience and familiarity with IT management products and services
• Fluency in analysis of unstructured data sets
• App frameworks and portal markup syntax

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g. EE, CS); MBA or similar degree highly preferred