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Engineering Product Manager, Cloud Control Studio

Cisco • $194K — $285K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Milpitas, CA
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree plus 12 years or Master's plus 8 years or PhD plus 5 years of product management or technical leadership experience in software.
  • Prior experience in software product management or equivalent with a focus on enterprise software requirements and roadmaps.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise application platforms, cloud platforms, or multi-tenant SaaS products.
  • Proven leadership in application lifecycle management, packaging, deployment, or governance from inception to production.
  • Cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with engineering and design teams, as well as operations or security.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy and roadmap for customer outcomes across the application lifecycle.
  • Define consistent application behaviors in areas such as deployment, versioning, and customer administration.
  • Steward platform building blocks to ensure a coherent user experience amidst evolving capabilities.
  • Convert broad problems into actionable product releases with measurable success criteria.
  • Validate product capabilities with real customer workflows, using data and prototypes for confirmation.
  • Coordinate across engineering, design, security, and operations teams to ensure clear product direction and stakeholder communication.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with direct opportunities to impact product direction.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology, including generative AI and cloud platforms.
  • Opportunities to interact directly with customers and validate solutions in real production environments.
Full Job Description
Your Impact

Studio product managers own outcomes across the application lifecycle rather than individual features. This product manager role is responsible for a critical customer outcome: customers can put applications and agents to work in meaningful workflows and depend on them to run reliably, securely, and manageably across many production environments!

This is where Studio's platform value is realized and where improvements compound across every application built on it, offering broad scope to shape the product. Examples of the problems in this space include how applications are packaged, deployed, upgraded, and administered by customer IT teams; how they are governed, observed, and supported at scale; and how the platform building blocks that applications are composed of stay coherent as the platform grows. The specific mix will evolve with the product; the outcome will not.

In this role, you will work closely with senior engineering and architecture leaders who build the Studio runtime, application registry, and hosting services, while staying directly connected to the customers, builders, and IT administrators who use them. You will:
  • Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for your area, from customer and administrator discovery through product definition, engineering delivery, production validation, and continued improvement
  • Define how applications and agents behave consistently across packaging, deployment, versioning, automated upgrades, customer administration, identity and authorization, multi-tenant boundaries, persistent data, observability, and operations, and make those behaviors platform defaults rather than per-application decisions.
  • Steward the platform building blocks that applications are composed of, so that new capabilities and runtime resources can be added by other teams while preserving one coherent customer and administrator experience.
  • Translate broad, open problems into well-scoped releases with clear acceptance criteria, sequencing decisions, and measurable exit conditions, setting clear priorities on what ships now, what is simplified, and what comes next.
  • Validate delivered capabilities in real customer workflows and environments-not only in demonstrations-using prototypes, APIs, logs, and product instrumentation to test assumptions and drive open questions to resolution with evidence.
  • Bring engineering, design, security, identity, platform, operations, and go-to-market teams to clear product decisions, and communicate direction and trade-offs credibly to executives, customers, and technical partners.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience, Master's degree plus 8 years of related experience, or PhD plus 5 years of related experience in product management, software engineering, or technical product leadership for software products.
  • Prior experience in software product management or equivalent product ownership, with direct responsibility for requirements, prioritization, and roadmap decisions for enterprise software.
  • Applied experience working on an enterprise application platform, developer platform, cloud platform, or multi-tenant SaaS product where third parties or customers deploy software onto your platform.
  • Experience leading at least one technically complex capability in application lifecycle management, packaging and deployment, versioning and upgrades, customer administration, runtime governance, or platform operations from definition through production launch and customer use.
  • Previous background leading cross-functional delivery with engineering, design, and at least one of security, identity, operations, or customer-facing teams.
Preferred Qualifications
  • 12 or more years of product management experience for enterprise software, PaaS, or cloud platform products. Experience defining a platform or extension model (capabilities, resources, manifests, contracts) that multiple internal or external teams build against.
  • Experience leading the runtime and lifecycle side of an application platform: packaging, deployment, versioning, staging/promotion, retirement, administration, support, and operations of software built by others and shaping an early-stage platform into a mature, reliable production product.
  • Technical fluency across several of the following: APIs, OAuth and identity, authorization and RBAC, multi-tenant SaaS, cloud runtimes, application data and state, security, and observability.
  • Prior experience with generative AI, agent runtimes, tool integrations, and AI-assisted software development as well as coding or prototyping experience, including productive use of modern AI coding tools.
  • Experience operating secure, multi-tenant enterprise software at scale and with application ecosystems, ISV or partner programs, or marketplaces where third-party applications are published, certified and supported along with the ability to communicate complex product and technical decisions clearly and persuasively in written and verbal form.

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Size
79,500 employees
Market Cap
$194.5 billion
Industry
Telecommunications & Hardware
Net Income
$10.1 billion
Founded
2014
5 Year Trend
+1.4%
Revenue
$48 billion
NASDAQ
CSCO
* Ladders Estimates

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