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Product Manager Cybersecurity

Meet the Team

Join a world-class team of technical leaders and innovators at Cisco, where you'll collaborate across Product Management, Product Development, Customer Experience (CX), Sales, and Security. Our team is driven by a shared passion for advancing technology, creating impactful solutions, and delivering exceptional value to our customers. We work together to drive Cisco's technical product strategy and expand our leadership across industries.

Your Impact

As an Engineering Product Manager (PM) for a large portfolio of foundational product security services, you will shape Cisco's vision for resilient infrastructure and trustworthy technology. You will specifically drive Certificate Authority (CA) and Private PKI services to verify identities and secure transactions. This role offers the unique opportunity to manage the entire lifecycle of PKI services—from definition and planning through production and release serving as the central resource for design, quality, and marketing.

• Build client relationships across multiple business units to drive strategic prioritization of adoption and onboarding processes.
• Drive service vision and strategy by analyzing industry trends, competition, and internal client needs to shape a 12-18 month roadmap.
• Capture and clarify client requirements to own and prioritize the service backlog, aligning roadmaps with client release plans.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, training materials, and release announcements for CA and Private PKI technologies.
• Serve as the domain expert to promote service offerings, identify growth opportunities across Cisco, and provide competitive analysis for new features.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of related security experience, OR Master’s degree with 4+ years of related experience..
• Experience must include work with certificate authorities, identity management, and secure communications.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the development and deployment of public and/or private certificate authorities.
• Proven knowledge and experience in designing and implementing CA and PKI solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience with technical ownership of securing internal communications systems, platforms, and solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise in industry/market analysis, competitive positioning, and strategic thinking.
• Proven success influencing product strategy and roadmaps across multiple complex solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver technical documentation and education to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco products, networking technologies, and Foundational Security Technologies (FSTs).

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $130,600.00 to $182,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 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, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$152,400.00 - $255,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$134,300.00 - $224,800.00

• For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.