The Cisco Meraki team is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the initiative of bringing the Meraki Switching experience to Catalyst - from customer requirements to new product introduction to end-of-support planning and all strategy in between. This is a unique opportunity where we are proactively keeping the team size small so that the ideal candidate has the room to effectively play both roles of being intensely involved as an individual contributing Product Manager - owning projects and leading by example - while also growing a dedicated team. This role pairs with partners leading the software-focused Product Experience team as well as our MS platforms, and reports directly to the MS Director of Product.
How do you hold the ideals of simplifying powerful features at scale while marrying that experience to the world's most trusted brand of switching with its extensive capabilities? You will lead the charge to continue that evolution by teaming up with top engineers, designers, sellers, and marketers across the company. You'll be meeting with and speaking on behalf of some of the world's most prevalent brands as we transform the market by solving difficult problems. We want your help making this product stand out in the growing multi-billion dollar networking industry!
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Responsibilities:
- Obsess over the customer experience; the product is nothing without happy customers that enjoy using the product every day.
- You have a bias towards action; data matters, but perfection is your worst enemy. Better to experiment quickly than wait.
- Balance about where to directly contribute to projects, leading by example, and when to empower and grow a dedicated team of Product Managers and Technical Marketing Engineers.
- You work with your business partners to understand our users, prioritize requirements, and become intimately familiar with the archetypal users of the product to advise your decisions and strategy.
- Using your market and customer knowledge to guide our team in defining and implementing a multi-year roadmap.
- Owning ultimate responsibility for everything related to this part of the business, and its success.
Qualifications:
- An entrepreneurial, forward-thinking demeanor with a strong sense of product quality.
- The ability to use data to prove or disprove possible product directions.
- Customer empathy, but with the critical thinking needed to ask complicated questions.
- Demonstrated experience in modern connected-hardware technology; 3-5 years experience in Product Management or equivalent experience, with excellent business skills.
- Strong desire to lead a focused team by example.
- BA/BS in CS, EE is excellent. If you think you have the practical experience to do the job, let’s talk!
Benefits:
- We are a modern distributed team with US headquarters in San Francisco and Chicago. Remote is OK, and we strive to bring the team together once per quarter
- Full technology setup, so you can do your best work from home
- Option for company mobile device
- Excellent medical, dental, 401k, and employee stock purchase options along with generous PTO
- Lots more as summarized on https://meraki.cisco.com/careers
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