The Enterprise Routing & SD-WAN Enablement business, a market leader in the deployment of routing and SD-WAN devices, is looking for an experienced product manager with extensive knowledge in networking and business, and excellent collaboration skills to drive the business on Enterprise, Commercial, and Public Sector engagements for high-end edge routing.
This Senior Product Manager will lead platforms and technology areas, manage customer relationships, interact with manufacturing and finance, and influence the organization towards their vision. A passion for explaining complex technologies and translating them into simple, succinct, and compelling business value propositions at the executive level is essential. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of innovative thinking, developing commercial solutions, defining product requirements, documenting user interface design, and working collaboratively with engineering leaders and other product managers to drive pioneering innovation and development prioritization.
What You'll Do
- Drive technical and new product requirements and product enhancements
- Lead cross-functional product teams and ensure progress toward landmarks
- Develop product roadmaps
- Ensure interoperability across product lines
- Ensure cross-functional product positioning is clear and consistent
- Examine new market and technology trends and propose action
- Conduct competitive feature, price/cost, and margin analysis
- Manage product launches and transitions, including delivery to the field, partners, and indirect channels
- Build and review press releases, launch materials, customer presentations, and sales training materials
- Collaborate cross-functionally on driven selling, pricing, market development, and field solutions
- Identify and drive marketing programs, including creation and execution of migration/upgrade programs, direct marketing, advertising, promotions, seminars, press, and analyst tours
- Partner with Business Development to define technology and business agreements
- Forecast product demand (unit, dollar bookings) and market share
- Participate in resolution of customer satisfaction issues by working with the account team and engineering to understand issues and propose solutions
Minimum Qualifications
- Specific networking industry experience and extensive business knowledge, built upon a strong technology foundation
- A confirmed ability to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous topics
- Creative and out-of-the-box thinking to drive compelling solutions to problems
- Strong written and oral communication skills; Executive presence
- Understanding of market competition for product(s) and the ability to position Cisco's solutions to customers and partners by reinforcing the value of the Cisco end-to-end architecture
- You have prior experience as a product manager
- You demonstrate consolidated knowledge & experience in IP, SDWAN, NFV, Core Network, and Cloud deployments
- You have crafted product and solution requirements and positioning, messaging, collateral including data-sheets, technical and business presentations
- Your leadership experience includes coordinating matrix organizations with successful cross-functional product coordination and planning
- You show flexibility to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving, deadline-driven environment
- Able to travel Domestic/International ~25%
- Engineering bachelor's degree and MBA or equivalent graduate degree is preferred
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience working on projects involving Platform as a Service
- Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration experience
- Demonstrated experience with Cloud-based deployments
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