Cisco Meraki - Product Manager - Cloud Platform (Hybrid)

Application window is expected to close on 12 / 1 / 2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a hybrid position with a requirement to occasionally come into the San Francisco, CA 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.

Ability to apply FinOps principals and financial modelling to cloud capabilities.

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).

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.

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 $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 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

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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 :

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 :

$168,800.00 - $277,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state :

$148,800.00 - $248,200.00