The Director of Product Management is responsible for balancing company goals with long-term market trends and opportunities. You will work in close cooperation with Sales to drive the company's Firewall business to meet and exceed bookings targets.

In this role you will direct, establishes maintain, and plan the overall policies and strategies for the product management team. Director of Product Management leads technological and business innovation with practical solutions that tackle real customer problems creating sustainable software and services-based business for the company.

You will formulate Cisco’s Firewall product and market strategies and drive their implementation, while balancing company goals with long-term market trends and market opportunities.

• Responsible for driving a roadmap that balances cost-velocity-quality such that customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and the BU's business and financial goals are met.
• Evangelize the BU's products and solutions reinforcing industry leadership in terms of product and market share.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to the product management team members and is responsible for furnishing them with resources, tools, and uniform processes.
• Build and manage the overall product management process and oversee its effective execution.
• Drive the enablement of field sales and services teams such that sales and deployment of Firewall products and solutions meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Coordinate and partner with Cisco Services to enable simplified deployment strategies that require less on-the-fly product customization.
• Spearhead initiatives to work across BU's on pricing/licensing combined offers that help Cisco to differentiate and move toward software-based solution offers while incentivizing increased sales.

• 10+ years of experience in the high-tech industry
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Network Security
• 6+ years of experience in delivery of technical products management.
• Bachelors’ degree is required

• Strong analytical and critical thinker with the ability to solve sophisticated problems
• Experience leading teams and defining strategies to achieve successful results within desired timeframes.
• Excellent communication skills - extensive experience with presenting data-supported business cases to top executives
• Can-do attitude, ability to quickly get up to speed with complex new topic areas, and capable of driving insight to tangible action plans
• Strong project management skills, including ability to think-end-to-end and to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability

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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 pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate 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.