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Cisco Meraki - Product Manager - Cloud

Cisco

Cisco

Product
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 23, 2025

Applications accepted until further notice

This is a hybrid position with a requirement to occasionally come into the San Francisco office - frequency is flexible.

Meet the Team
The Cisco Meraki team is seeking a Product Manager to join our cloud team. You will drive the strategy and execution behind scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure. You'll partner closely with engineering to build the platforms and tools that power our products end-to-end. Your work will craft how we scale, innovate, and deliver monumental cloud experiences—accelerating developer efficiency, system performance, and product delivery.

Your Impact
As a Product Manager on the Cisco Meraki Cloud team, you will play a meaningful role in driving the product vision and operational success of our security and compliance initiatives within the Cloud Platform domains. You will be responsible for:

  • Product Vision: Owning the strategy and roadmap for cloud platform capabilities, aligning infrastructure, goals with product scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Operational Perfection: Driving continuous improvement in cloud service reliability, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation to improve delivery speed and stability.
  • Cross Functional Alignment: Collaborating with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to ensure infrastructure solutions meet technical and business requirements cohesively.
  • Customer-Centric Design: Translating developer and collaborator feedback into platform features that improve usability, observability, and overall developer experience.
  • Data-Informed Decisions: Demonstrating metrics, using trends, and market insights to guide prioritization and refine platform strategy for long-term impact.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of product management experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps platforms, or SaaS environments.
  • Strong familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud primitives and architecture such as EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, and Route53.
  • Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts (e.g., compute, storage, networking) and cloud-native technologies (e.g., containers, orchestration, service discovery).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • Ability to apply FinOps principals and financial modelling to cloud capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, operations, and leadership.
  • Excellent communication skills and can articulate a compelling vision
  • Experience building or leading platform products used by internal developers or other product teams (e.g., developer experience, internal tooling, self-service infrastructure).
  • Deep knowledge of SRE principles such as SLIs/SLOs, incident management, toil reduction, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or similar cloud foundational certifications.


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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

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.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%;

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