Senior Engineering Product Manager

Role Description

This is a remote role, offering the ability to work from any location within the U.S. Cisco is hiring a Senior Engineering Product Manager as we own the future of the endpoint! Cisco Secure Client is Cisco's unified endpoint security platform that works across desktop, mobile, and its management experience. The team builds security products that help people connect safely and work with confidence. We value thoughtful decisions, positive relationship building, and steady execution.

This Senior Engineering Product Manager will lead strategy, roadmap definition, and execution across several key product areas, turning customer needs and market insight into clear product decisions. We're looking for a senior product leader who can evaluate and resolve sophisticated choices, align teams, and deliver trusted experiences at scale. This senior role offers the opportunity to shape a widely-used platform and to influence how our endpoint presence continues to evolve. This is an outstanding chance to create a visible impact!

Your Impact

• The Senior Engineering Product Manager sets direction across several product areas and connects decisions across the broader portfolio.
• Shape 18-24 month investment priorities spanning:
  • AI
  • Connectivity
  • Security
  • Identity
  • Manageability
  • User experience
  • Zero trust capabilities
• Work closely with engineering, sales, support, experience, and other product managers.
• Advise on business plans, product marketing strategy, and success measures.
• Define how owned capabilities fit into the broader solution through packaging, bundling, and positioning.
• Guide teams to navigate trade-offs involving architecture, customer impact, and market realities.
• Lead validation across segments, build partners, and strategic accounts, using insights to strengthen product-market fit and identify adjacent opportunities.
• Represent the product with customers, partners, and internal collaborators as a trusted guide and advocate.
• Bring focus to ambiguity and momentum to execution.
• Listen carefully, test assumptions, and turn insight into clear decisions.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ industry experience in a software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud, IT, or a product management environment.
• Experience with desktop and mobile software.
• Customer engagement experience, including translating enterprise customer needs into product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Product management experience.
• Bachelors + 8 years' of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of AI, security, networking, identity, endpoint management, and zero trust technologies.
• Strong preference for candidates knowledgeable with endpoint security.
• Preference for experience leading product strategy for desktop and mobile software at platform scale.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior partners.
• Experience acting as a trusted technical advisor for engineering teams and engineering leadership.
• Experience developing comprehensive product strategy for competitive analyses and market validation across multiple customers/products.
• Deep understanding of endpoint security customers and markets.

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, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness.
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.