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As Senior Director of Product Operations in Product Management and Design team under Security Business Group, your primary responsibility will be to drive and implement initiatives to ensure strong operational execution.
This role reports into VP of Operations. You will need to work within the Product & Design team and across the organization including Sales, Customer Success, Renewal and engineering teams to advocate for improving existing processes and programs, as well as leading multi-functional operational efforts.
You will be required to ensure a consistent product strategy, product feature intake & loopback process, and roadmap planning methodology and approach for product management lifecycle, fostering a predictable experience for the product managers and partnering teams.
Your role will be pivotal in driving operational efficiency and empowering Product Managers to focus on solving customer problems in line with our high-level product strategic priorities.
What You Will Do
- Coordinate with Product Managers, Customer Success, Renewal, Support, and Sales teams to ensure engagement and alignment on the feature intake process.
- Develop and implement roadmap planning governance, trade off management framework and operational strategies to enhance product delivery efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Support Product Management & Design team's annual and quarterly planning cadence.
- Lead critical multi-functional programs as needed to drive impactful customer engagement and renewals.
- Partner with product leaders, the chiefs of staff and operations team members to continuously improve business rhythms, including weekly and quarterly reviews, planning, and metrics.
- Improve multi-functional communication to ensure alignment of roles and responsibilities.
- Manage and rationalize tools and standard processes to support product planning and design.
- Identify and implement process improvement initiatives to streamline product planning, development, launch, and lifecycle management.
- Develop and track team-level Objective Key Results to measure and improve the effectiveness of product operations.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product operations professionals.
Who You Are
You are a proven product operations leader with ability to balance completeness and quick business results, optimizing for speed, effectiveness with persuasion skills and an ability to lead without direct authority and thrive in ambiguous situations.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to interpret data and insights to inform strategies with a customer-centric approach on delivering exceptional value and experience through product offerings.
Who You'll Work With
- Multi-functional teams including Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success Support to align on product goals, timelines and deliverables.
- Customers across product, engineering program management, business operations, go-to-market operations, product marketing, sales, and other partner organizations to ensure effective collaboration.
- Your team of product operations professionals, whom you will lead and mentor.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science, or an equivalent.
- 18+ years of experience in Product Operations, Business Operations or Portfolio Program Management or equivalent in relevant position.
- Proven experience in leading complex projects with extensive experience in initiating and driving process improvements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep understanding of the needs of different customers in a Product, Engineering, UX, CX and Renewal organization, from executive leadership to individual contributors with at least 8 years in a leadership role.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Experiences with development and operational tools, Aha!, Airtable, Smartsheet, JIRA, SharePoint, etc.
- Experience in the cybersecurity industry and familiarity with security standards and compliance requirements.
Pay Range : 274900 USD - 371500 USD
Why Cisco Secure
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Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.
Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact.
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