Principal Product Management Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $225k - $325.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

Hardware • Security

Cisco is a multinational technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-level technology services and products. Cisco builds networking, security, observability, collaboration, and AI-optimized infrastructure for enterprises, service providers, data centers, and edge environments—offering products such as routers, switches, firewalls, programmable silicon (Silicon One), AI networking solutions, hybrid mesh firewall, smart switches, Cisco Cloud Control, Cisco IQ, and services for digital resilience and infrastructure modernization. The company targets large enterprises, hyperscalers, service providers, and governments, and is a market leader in networking and security with broad adoption across Fortune 500 companies.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the strategy for internal engineering platforms and AI-driven productivity tools, ensuring alignment with broader business outcomes. • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for developer productivity (CI/CD, build tooling, test infrastructure) and AI integrations (agentic assistants, model context protocols), balancing technical risks and business trade-offs. • Partner with engineering leads and platform teams to align priorities, unblock delivery, and translate user feedback into actionable, measurable requirements. • Lead the strategic direction for AI tooling, including build-vs-buy analysis, migration planning, and the creation of a skills/prompts marketplace to enable repeatable workflows. • Monitor engineering productivity and sentiment using DORA metrics and surveys to identify gaps and drive continuous improvement. • Represent Cisco in high-value forums and evangelize product vision across business units, sales teams, and the broader industry. • Foster an innovation culture through hackathons, conduct user research to improve UX, and manage clear communication regarding product roadmaps, feature releases, and deprecations. • Serve as a leader within the Product Management community, providing deep technical insight and shaping organizational strategy across portfolios.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience. • Consistent track record delivering technical products within cloud platforms, SaaS, or infrastructure domains. • Demonstrated success in managing the full product lifecycle (definition, build, release, and iteration) for complex, distributed systems. • Consistent track record of driving delivery across engineering, operations, and business partners for large-scale platforms. • Proficiency in defining and tracking product metrics to advise prioritization and demonstrate business impact. • Familiarity with tools like GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex).

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • paid parental leave • short and long-term disability coverage • basic life insurance • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year • flexible vacation time off program • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • 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