Engineering Product Manager

The application window is expected to close on: 08/10/2026Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Meet the Team 

The Cisco Cloud Control team is building a common operating layer across Cisco's cloud-managed and controller-based products. Shared platform services allow customers to understand and manage their environment across product boundaries. This role sits in the group responsible for assurance, topology, data ingestion and shared data services. The team partners with controller teams and ThousandEyes. It also works closely with Splunk, AI Canvas, security, support and customer-facing organizations. The work gives Cloud Control the trusted context required for operational use cases that no single product can support alone. 

Your Impact 

• Own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for the Cisco Cloud Control assurance and data platform. Set clear outcomes for ingestion, normalization, correlation and data consumption. 

• Define how controllers and Cisco products contribute assurance, topology, configuration, inventory, posture and asset data. Establish product contracts for schema, provenance, freshness and source ownership. 

• Drive delivery of a governed data layer that creates a trusted cross-domain composite while source systems remain authoritative for their domain facts. 

• Turn the platform into customer-facing capabilities for client-to-cloud intent validation, cross-domain root cause analysis, formal verification, compliance evidence and recommended remediation. 

• Lead execution across product and engineering organizations. Set measurable targets for source onboarding, data quality, latency, scale, reliability, adoption and support readiness. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 8+ years of related experience, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience. 

• 8+ years of product management, technical product management or platform product management experience in cloud, networking, observability or enterprise infrastructure. 

• 5+ years of experience working with data platforms, network assurance, telemetry systems, distributed systems or related platform services. 

• Experience defining data ingestion, schema, API or event contracts, normalization, data quality, lineage and provenance requirements. 

• Experience leading a platform initiative from product definition through production delivery across multiple engineering and product teams. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with network controllers, network assurance, topology, configuration management or client-to-cloud observability. 

• Experience designing product requirements for streaming and batch ingestion, entity resolution, historical data and correlation services. 

• Knowledge of root cause analysis, intent validation, formal verification, policy evaluation or pre-change analysis. 

• Experience integrating with platforms such as ThousandEyes, Splunk, ServiceNow or AI and agent workflow systems. 

• Ability to make technical trade-offs clear to senior leaders and align teams that have separate roadmaps and ownership models. 

 

Why Cisco? 

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. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $169,300.00 to $237,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

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 - $328,600.00

Non-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.