Cisco

Product Manager, Cloud Platform (Data & Telemetry) (Remote)

Cisco$154K — $225K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in cloud platforms, data infrastructure, or technical product areas
  • 3+ years in product management specializing in SaaS networking
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field
  • Proven ability to define product roadmaps for backend or platform capabilities
  • Experience collaborating with engineering on APIs and cloud architecture

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage a roadmap for telemetry and data-platform capabilities
  • Lead planning and prioritization with engineering partners
  • Translate system constraints into clear product requirements and user stories
  • Build and promote APIs and tools for effective telemetry use
  • Measure platform success through reliability, scalability, and customer experience

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity within the United States
  • Collaborative cross-functional team environment
  • Focus on future technologies including AI-driven networking
  • Involvement in shaping evolving cloud strategies
  • Access to impactful projects in cloud-managed networking solutions
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 08/31/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This role is open to remote candidates within the United States.

Meet the team

Come join the Cloud Platform team. We build the data and telemetry foundation behind cloud-managed networking experiences for customers. Partner with passionate product teams and engineers who use our platform to deliver reliable, high-fidelity insights and capabilities. Work in a cross-functional environment spanning product management, engineering, data science, and design, with a collaborative, technically curious, and customer-focused vibe. Connect streaming telemetry infrastructure and data services to Meraki's broader cloud strategy, enabling internal teams to build differentiated customer experiences. Help shape a platform that is evolving to support the next generation of AI-driven and agentic networking.

Your impact

Define and own a multi-quarter roadmap for telemetry ingestion and data-platform capabilities to advance Meraki's cloud strategy. Lead planning and prioritization across engineering partners, balancing performance, scalability, reliability, customer needs, and market opportunities. Translate distributed-system constraints and data requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, and measurable outcomes for high-availability, low-latency services. Build and evangelize APIs, tools, data structures, and access patterns that help internal product teams and future AI/ML capabilities use telemetry effectively. Measure success through platform reliability, latency, scale, adoption, and the customer experiences enabled by the platform.

Minimum qualifications
  • 7+ years of related experience and 3+ years of product management experience with cloud platforms, data infrastructure, SaaS networking, or a comparable technical product area.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in technical product development.
  • Experience defining a product roadmap and requirements for at least one backend, platform, data, or infrastructure capability delivered to production.
  • Experience partnering with engineering teams on APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, or cloud architecture.
  • Experience using product, platform, or operational metrics to prioritize work and evaluate outcomes.

Preferred qualifications
  • Familiarity with one or more streaming, messaging, caching, relational, or time-series technologies, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, or time-series databases.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments.
  • Experience defining data structures or access patterns for AI/ML models, analytics products, or autonomous agents.
  • Experience with enterprise networking, telemetry platforms, observability products, or large-scale SaaS services.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

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