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This role sets a clear product direction, turns customer and market evidence into an outcome-led roadmap, and leads delivery with engineering, design, data, go-to-market, and operations partners. The successful candidate will operate with high autonomy, make deliberate tradeoffs across customer value, quality, speed, and business impact, and communicate those decisions clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams.\nYour Impact\nSet Product Direction and RoadmapOwn the near-term vision and prioritized roadmap, aligned to broader business and product strategy.\nTranslate customer problems, market shifts, technology opportunities, and operating constraints into clear product outcomes, requirements, and sequencing decisions.\nDevelop business cases and success measures that connect feature investments to customer adoption, commercial value, reliability, and strategic goals.\n\nLead Customer and Data Driven DecisionsBuild direct relationships with customers, partners, and internal field teams; synthesize feedback across research, support, usage, and market inputs.\nValidate early product concepts with customers and partners, then use the evidence to refine problem statements, product direction, and roadmap decisions.\nMonitor industry trends, customer expectations, and competitive signals to identify opportunities, risks, and needed adjustments to product strategy.\nFormulate the right business questions, use data to inform decisions, and connect project outcomes to meaningful metrics for the product area.\nMake and explain tradeoffs between customer needs, commercial priorities, product quality, and delivery capacity.\n\nDeliver High Quality ProductsPartner closely with engineering and design to define specifications, resolve technical and design tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality releases.\nAssess release readiness across functional, technical, customer, and business criteria; make clear decisions on whether a release meets the required bar.\nManage the lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration, including readiness with sales, marketing, customer success, support, and operations.\nDefine and monitor adoption, workflow-efficiency, quality, and customer-impact measures after launch; use results to guide follow-on investment and iteration.\n\nInfluence and Lead Across the OrganizationAlign with Product stakeholders anticipate concerns, and build plans that balance their needs while maintaining product direction.\nEngage senior internal leaders and customer to shape positioning, gain buy-in, communicate roadmap choices, and resolve escalations.\nMentor and support more junior PMs through informal coaching, stronger product artifacts, and practical delivery guidance.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent practical experience.\n10 or more years of product management, product lifecycle management, solution architecture, or closely related experience in enterprise software, SaaS, communications, or customer experience products.\nDemonstrated ownership of a product roadmap or substantial product area, including prioritization, requirements, delivery, launch, and post-launch iteration.\nExperience translating customer needs and business goals into actionable product specifications, investment choices, and measurable outcomes.\nStrong analytical judgment, including the ability to use data, customer feedback, and operational evidence to make product decisions.\nProven ability to influence engineering, design, sales, customer success, and operations partners in a matrixed environment without direct authority.\nExecutive communication skills, including concise roadmap, tradeoff, and business-case presentations for internal and customer audiences.\nExperience defining product quality, adoption, commercial, reliability, and customer-success measures and using them to guide investment decisions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with contact center, customer experience, communications, workflow automation, data and analytics, or AI-enabled enterprise software.\nExperience working with enterprise customers, strategic partners, and globally distributed product and engineering teams.\nExperience applying AI tools to enhance product insight, execution quality, and decision-making.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.\nIf you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. 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