About Cisco Meraki
As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace.
Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.
Our employees fuel the magic of the Meraki community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Merakians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.
Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values : 'care deeply,' 'everybody in,' 'simplify everything,' and 'be brave.
These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.
The Opportunity
The Cisco Meraki team is seeking a motivated and collaborative Senior Manager to lead product management activities for the Public Sector.
You will expand Meraki’s cloud management capabilities while working with Meraki product teams across the company (wireless APs, network security appliances, intelligent video cameras, and more).
As Senior Manager on the Meraki Cloud, your mission is to act as the business and subject matter authority leading roadmap, feature set, and overall business results.
You will have the opportunity to drive with your Product Managers Meraki’s compliance strategy as we expand our addressable markets into federal governments and new compliance-focused verticals.
This role would partner with Engineering, Security, and Legal teams in the areas of security and compliance projects. This also includes working with marketing to develop collateral, engaging with prospects and customers to gather insights, and handling customer issues.
This is a growing team, where you will attract and build talent.
Meraki is changing the way the industry thinks about networking, and you will lead the charge to continue the evolution! You will team up with forward-thinking engineers and customers to ensure that we have the best user experience and the most sophisticated cloud platform in the industry.
In addition, you'll also work side-by-side with the executive team to build a leading strategy, while also collaborating with the outstanding sales, marketing, and partner teams to ensure market adoption and rapid growth.
Every day is truly unlike the one before! Your penchant for approaching problems with creative solutions, a passion for engineering, and ambition to be part of (and lead) an innovative and inspiring team are the tools that you’ll need to be a Meraki Product Leader.
Please note : This position is mostly remote and requires that you are within commuting distance to a Bay area office (San Francisco, CA or San Jose, CA) or are within commuting distance to the D.C. area.
Why Cisco Meraki?
We connect everything : people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking calculated risks to craft the technologies that give us connected cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals.
And we do it in style with unusual personalities who aren't afraid to change how the world works, lives, plays, and learns.
We are encouraging leaders, tech enthusiasts, and social media influencers; we even have a few purple-haired folks on the team.
We celebrate the creativity and diversity that drive our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Cisco Meraki.
What You Will Do
- As a people leader, you will attract, build, and lead a diverse team of dedicated PMs - Product Managers
- Build with your team the strategy and roadmaps for the Meraki Cloud and product lines aimed at the public sector
- Improve productivity by evolving the team structure to enable efficient execution of PM work
- Thoughtfully assign incoming projects based on skills and availability, provide ongoing feedback, and remove roadblocks
- Design with engineering leads strategies to accelerate compliance programs while using public cloud vendors
- Work alongside PMs to discover and prioritize customer use cases and requirements to expand our products into the public sector
- Work closely with our outstanding teams such as engineering, legal, and security to act on our roadmaps and plans
- Drive PMs to translate user requirements, regulations, and policies into useful engineering and process requirements
- Define go-to-market and pricing.
- Assist and train our fast-growing global sales team
Who You Are
- 5+ years in a Product Management role, having worked cross-functionally on large projects with multiple engineering teams
- 3+ years working with customers in Government or regulated industries and a strong ability to understand how the Government operates and adopts technology
- 3+ years of people management experience building, leading, and mentoring impactful teams
- Have excellent communication skills and can communicate complicated concepts to non-technical audiences
- Deep passion for mentoring, coaching, and growing people
- Technical background in cloud infrastructure or software development and ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Privacy and compliance experience with knowledge of regulations such as ISO 27001, Common Criteria, SOC, FISMA, FIPS 140, and FedRAMP
- BA / BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related degree
- The successful applicant may be performing work in FedRAMP High or IL-5 environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.
e. U.S. citizen). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.
S. citizen on U.S. soil.
Nice to Have
- MBA or a related advanced degree
- Networking domain expertise
- Experience working at a SaaS or PaaS enterprise company
As a Cisco Meraki Employee, you can expect
- A supportive and lively environment and a team that values your contributions.
- There are a lot of opportunities for professional and personal growth via employee-led groups. Check out one of our groups Women of Meraki on Twitter and Instagram.
- Actionable and candid feedback regularly following Progressive Candor.
- Delicious catered meals every day fully stocked kitchens and all-you-can-eat snacks.
- Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.
Life at Cisco Meraki
We are passionate about building real products that our customers love. We are confident you will love it here!
Meraki is based in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco, with beautiful views of the Oracle Ballpark and the Bay beyond where you will have access to an onsite gym, multiple kitchens stocked with high-quality snacks, a coffee bar, and catered lunches every day, and we offer a generous benefits package to all of our Merakians.
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At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people.
We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case-by-case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Compensation Range : $139,000 $266,000 USD
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.
S. and / or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only;
employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training.
Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday.
Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO.
We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components.
For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%.
Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.