Engineering Program Manager

Meet the Team

Talos is Cisco’s industry-leading threat intelligence team that protects your organization’s people, data, and infrastructure from active adversaries. The Talos team collects information about existing and developing threats and provides comprehensive protection against more attacks and malware than anyone else. All Cisco Security products apply Talos threat intelligence, providing fast and effective security solutions. Our job is protecting your network.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager with extensive background in multi-functional and cross business unit program management to lead software Threat Intelligence delivery for multiple Talos cloud services/products.

The successful candidate will have a unique blend of communication and problem-solving skills. Candidate must be able to balance business needs with consistently defining and delivering against program schedules, features outcomes and cost goals.

Your Impact

Talos Program Managers lead multi-functional teams consisting of product management, development, QA, support, and operations personnel to define, build and launch software applications (from ideation through delivery).

Your Impact:

• Program Leadership: Led software product core teams for multiple services, leading concurrent releases and ad hoc projects across global international teams.
• Lifecycle & Execution: Leveraged deep SDLC expertise to drive programs from business requirement gathering and use-case definition to final execution.
• Operational Management: Developed multi-functional schedules, managed scope and resources, and implemented best practices to continually improve program experience.
• Risk & Issue Resolution: Proactively identified, escalated, and resolved critical issues affecting program schedules and feature commitments.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Led complex stakeholder relationships and collaborated across functions to secure necessary resources and commitments.
• Executive Communication: Delivered regular program status updates to management and executives through formal and informal channels, while maintaining all documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years, a Masters degree + 6 years, or PhD + 3 years of complex program management (preferred in product development, product management or a technology environment), using both agile and waterfall. Degree should be in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience leading the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-functional initiatives from initial concept through global deployment.
• 6+ years of experience using Jira to build advanced project roadmaps and structured data reports (Jira power-user).
• Cloud & SDLC: Background supervising SDLC execution within distributed cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with varying levels of management.
• Emerging Tech & Automation: Experience adopting or demonstrating modern AI-assisted engineering workflows, developer tools (such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor), or automated code-validation frameworks to optimize the software development lifecycle.
• Exceptional team player with the ability to quickly develop and cultivate multi-functional relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to understand, resolve and communicate technical and business issues.
• Ability to influence peers, managers, and directors while navigating ambiguity.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized and meticulous, with a high level of integrity and reliability.
• Able to quickly drive, communicate, and gain support for decisions in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to maneuver priorities across organizations.
• Jira administration experience a plus.
• Proficiency with Security/threat intelligence domain experience and/or demonstrated experience with cloud security applications a plus.
• Cisco security products/services experience desired.
• Experience driving execution of programs that span Threat Research, Development, Operations teams and environments a plus.

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:

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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.