Senior Manager Product Management of Network Data Platform and Contextual Insights

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success.

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. It’s also an opportunity to join a team that is pioneering new approaches to product management to align effectively with agile development methodologies. 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.

* 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