Senior Director of Product - Military Veterans

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Meet the Team

The networking industry is evolving at an outstanding rate of innovation. Cisco rapidly expands its offerings across all networking markets, spanning AI clusters, hyper-scale data centers, enterprise networking, and service providers. CHG develops networking ASICs to power the entire Cisco portfolio and to enable disruptive and competitive business models. We seek outstanding individuals who are driven to lead a product vision. As a Senior Director of Product, your scope of responsibility includes defining all aspects of products, from features to performance to power. You will be part of the team working closely with architecture, execution, system, and business teams.

Your Impact

Critical to the role, a successful candidate will have strong insights into ASIC technology and industry trends, be aware of key competitive scenarios, and be adept at predicting the industry's and technology's future directions with strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations.

You will be part of a team of outstanding technical peers from Engineering and Product Management whose #1 focus is to deliver an extraordinary customer experience and ensure customer deployment and expansion success of a highly innovative product! We solve the toughest business challenges with modern datacenter workload solution that accelerate customer and partner success and dedication. Our success is validated through extraordinary deployment and adoption metrics, customer satisfaction metrics, industry recognition

• Lead CHG product team and drive a competitive product roadmap.

• Partner with architecture and execution teams, system architects, Cisco networking product and engineering teams, and external ASIC customers. Through those interactions, you will bring market and product requirements back into the engineering and execution teams.

• Building market analysis and a current and accurate view of the competitive landscape that provides the data to enter or change new markets through a clear value proposition

• Define positioning that enables the communication of the product value proposition for our Silicon One products for different markets and use cases

Minimum Qualifications

• A master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or a bachelor's degree with equivalent experience.

• Proven leadership experience in chip and system architecture space driving projects from concept to production.

• A track record of successfully defining and shipping products in networking tech or network hardware space in a similar/related role with 15+ years of overall experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of networking customer requirements and usage models.

• Demonstrable experience with a combination ASIC, Hardware, and software stack.

• Prior experience leading cross functional team and/or projects as a product management leader.

Why Cisco

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's redefining our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. A passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

We offer extensive employee benefits including unlimited PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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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 (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.