Product Manager, Meraki Cloud Platform (Data & Telemetry)

Role Description

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

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.

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.

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 determined by Cisco.
• 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.