As Product Manager at Cisco Switching Team, you will play a pivotal role in crafting the future of multi-billion-dollar product portfolio. You will own multiple strategic initiatives of the product, including product vision, product roadmap, customer growth and product revenue. You will drive product line strategy, innovation and evolution to build an outstanding offering. Your objective is to profitably grow the product at targeted rates. This position offers the outstanding opportunity to own the strategy, innovation and evolution of a key Cisco Enterprise Switching product line. As Product Manager at Cisco Switching team, you'll be responsible for delivery and life cycle management of Cisco Enterprise Switching product and solutions. Salient activities are new product introduction, modelling, compliance/certifications and customer delivery

Our team leads the Enterprise Switching business of Cisco. We are driving a dynamic business in transformation. Our environment is fast-paced and deadline-driven, and we are success-driven and entrepreneurial. Activities a typical PM is involved in and responsible for at Cisco over the duration of a product lifecycle:

• Develop innovative product features and functionality in partnership with Engineering
• Cross-functional Collaboration to build, plan, execute and deliver complete Enterprise Network OS software and technology roadmap every quarter
• Provide Customer use-case examples to Engineering and act as the primary liaison for customer feedback, requirements and R&D. Drive resolution of customer happiness issues. Handle issues associated with ordering of products, systems and tools, and manufacturing supply.
• Forecast and help drive opportunities for product lines with multi billion dollar annual revenues. Identify areas for growth and craft strategic product line roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and differentiating features.
• Develop and drive results-focused campaigns across various markets to ensure Cisco’s market share and profitability including media releases, launch materials, customer presentations, videos, podcasts, and sales training materials.
• Communicate product value proposition and benefits to internal and external audiences, including customers, sales and partners.
• Define and supervise key product metrics to measure success and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Lead the entire product lifecycle, from concept to end of sale of the product.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors with 7 years experience/Masters with 5 years experience
• Technical background working with engineering teams on complex software projects
• Intermediate knowledge of data center & enterprise networking architectures
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills: effective inter-personal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals

Preferred Qualifications Self-motivated and a ground-breaking individual

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication along with strong presentation abilities, adept business knowledge to round out your portfolio
• Interpersonal skills that allow you to easily partner with people at all levels and ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work towards long.

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