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Meet the team

The Campus Switching Product Management team translates complex campus networking platforms into clear, customer-ready solutions for Cisco. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Go-to-Market teams, we define core product features, build practical demos, and channel customer feedback directly into the product roadmap. Composed of hands-on networking practitioners, our dynamic group shares a strong, practical bias toward solving real-world customer problems. Joining this team offers the exciting opportunity to pioneer AI-enabled and agentic network operations across cloud-managed and on-premises campus platforms. You will utilize cutting-edge, AI-assisted methods to build, explain, and demonstrate next-generation switching solutions at scale.

Your impact

You will help shape the future of campus network management by applying Cisco’s full-stack AI capabilities to real customer operations workflows to drive modernization and efficiency. Define and scale AgenticOps use cases through direct customer engagement, ensuring measurable success in product adoption, field reuse, and actionable roadmap feedback. Accelerate product evaluation and purchase decisions by acting as a trusted technical partner who builds high-impact labs, demos, and proof-of-concept environments. Drive customer value and market adoption by developing comprehensive technical content, presentations, and videos while representing Cisco at key industry events.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors + 5 experience in technical product management, technical marketing, sales engineering, network consulting, or solutions architecture, or Masters + 3 years experience.
• Experience configuring, troubleshooting, and operating enterprise networking environments using network operating systems and management platforms.
• Technical expertise in enterprise campus network design, including Ethernet, VLANs, Layer 2 switching, IP routing, and Layer 3 technologies.
• Experience delivering technical presentations and live demonstrations on networking, security, and AgenticOps topics to enterprise audiences.
• Experience building technical lab environments, validation plans, and customer-facing guides using approved AI-assisted tools and coding agents.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience utilizing advanced AI frameworks, MCP integrations, and RAG-based systems to prototype ideas and automate repeatable workflows.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional Go-to-Market, Engineering, and Sales teams to influence product direction.
• Strong public speaking skills with experience representing technology brands at industry conferences and customer-facing events.
• Advanced certifications in enterprise networking, cloud management, or security disciplines.
• Ability to travel up to 15-25% of the time

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 $138,100.00 to $196,500.00 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:

$138,100.00 - $226,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$124,000.00 - $201,000.00

* 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.