Product Manager - Security

Product Manager, Security Offer and Product Operations
Who we are
We're an agile, fun and vibrant culture within Cisco - balancing teamwork and integration with autonomy and innovation - to deliver the most effective solution to our customers' problems. The outstanding mix of our ground-breaking approach to security and Cisco's industry dominance surpasses what any other security a start-up could ever achieve on its own.
Working at Cisco in the Strategy, Growth and Operations Team means being surrounded by passionate, intelligent, and creative people that are determined to reinvent the information security industry with innovative ideas, world-class research, and outstanding products and services. It's a place where the best ideas are quickly transformed into products, features, campaigns, and company-wide practices, so it won't be long before you witness the results of your hard work.
What You'll Do
As a Product Manager on the Offer and Product Operations team in the Strategy, Growth and Operations organization, you will help lead the strategy and execution of launching new product offers into the marketplace. This means designing/defining and developing new offers (packaging, price lists, discounting, SKUs), socializing offers with key stakeholders (marketing, sales, finance, support, operations), and working cross-functionally to drive the delivery of these offers to market.
You will engage with business leads to understand the product roadmap and evolve the pricing and packaging framework accordingly. You will need to build relationships with other product teams within Cisco to build and launch joint offers.
You will play an important role in training the field (sellers and partners) about the new
offers. Additionally, you will monitor the health of launches and optimize and support offers over their lifecycle. This includes defining launch success metrics, answering and resolving offer inquiries, and supporting seller requests.
Managing deal desk inquiries along with the finance team is an important responsibility of this role, which will require building a deeper understanding of the product, the market conditions and the competitive environment.
Who You'll Work With
We're a group of engineers, technologists and designers building security products with superior efficacy that are simple to use and easy to manage. Working at Cisco on the Strategy, Growth and Operations team means being surrounded by passionate, intelligent and creative people who are determined to disrupt the information security industry with endless innovation, premier research, and outstanding products and services.
You will be working closely across key functional areas (Product, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Support, and Operations) of the security portfolio to gain an understanding of what it means to deliver offers to market at scale.
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a strong background in SaaS pricing & packaging and go-to-market models.
• Have expertise with SaaS monetization models, with an understanding of competitive & value-based pricing strategies.
• Be a self-starter with high levels of initiative, commitment and energy
• Have a strong ability to structure a solution to complex problems and lead offers from concept to launch
• Love to dig deeper to uncover issues and solve problems
• Enjoy working with data and build stories from it for decision making
• Be organized and process oriented, with attention to detail
• Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills

Educational / Professional Background

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) preferred
• 5+ years of Product Management or Product Marketing experience in Security, Networking or related fields.
• Expertise in SaaS, cloud-delivered security and/or networking services preferred

We Are Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!
But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it).
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!
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The health and safety of Cisco's employees, customers, and partners is a top priority. Our goal is to protect and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection for strong business resiliency during the pandemic. Therefore, Cisco may require new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if the role requires business-related travel, meeting with customers/partners (including visiting third-party sites on behalf of Cisco), attending trade events, and Cisco office entry, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law, and in countries where COVID-19 vaccination is legally required. The company will consider legally required accommodations/exceptions for medical, religious, and other reasons as per the requirements of the role and in accordance with applicable law. Additional information will be provided to candidates about the requirements and accommodation process at the offer time based on region.