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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.

About the Team

Our team is passionate about delivering security outcomes for customers as part of a cloud-managed access control service, reducing risk for customers, reducing time and effort in leading security policies, and helping them meet compliance goals more easily. We are focused on delivering the most complete user experience possible for enabling and running identity-based micro-segmentation at scale.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to join a key Zero-Trust security initiative, Adaptive Policy. Our customers build large and sophisticated networks to power their business which we strive to help them secure.

We want to help our customers deal with the proliferation of IoT devices, help them establish levels of trust with connected users and devices, apply policies to protect their assets, and deal with sophisticated problems like the lateral movement of threats.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a team who are passionate about delivering new security capabilities to customers. At Cisco Meraki, you will enjoy the benefit of Meraki’s agile startup culture while gaining the scale and resources of a global corporation such as Cisco!

What You Will Do

Your primary responsibility will be to own the strategy and roadmap for identity-based access controls, authenticating users, and fingerprinting devices to which customers can then apply granular access controls across many networking and security products.

• Lead the efforts in IoT device onboarding, classification, and management, ensuring a secure and efficient process for integrating a diverse array of devices into the network.
• Obsess about building the best possible experience for customers who need to authenticate users and devices against an array of cloud identity providers and sources of contextual data.
• Collaborate with our engineering, UX, data science, and product teams to build and deliver experiences that delight and engage our security customers.
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements, features, and end products.
• We judge ourselves on how well our products solve customer problems, and we use data to measure our success and inform product direction.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in a product management role managing all aspects of SaaS products throughout the product lifecycle. This experience also includes:
• At least 5 years of security SaaS experience with an understanding of security technologies and SaaS architectures.
• Product management experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on Network Access Control products.
• Experience with NAC technologies, industry trends, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Strong product management experience with authentication and device classification, including 802.1x authentication of users and devices, EAP methods, credentials, and certificates that may be involved.
• You know Cloud IdPs, SSO, SAML, OAuth, and other identity and access management technologies.
• Experience with IoT device onboarding, classification, and management.
• Experience with networking technology that gives you technical fluency in networking basics. We're flexible about how you gained this experience. It can come from professional experience, classroom learning, or having the best home network on your block.
• Passionate about building excellent user experiences by living and breathing data, metrics, and hypotheses. With that passion comes focus so that the team works on what matters most instead of day-to-day noise.
• An "always learning" orientation, because as we advance the state of the art, it will be time to burn the old rule book and write a new one.
• Ability to drive product vision to execution, and to influence others with data-driven recommendations.
• Comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences.

Meraki is a modern distributed team. Our roots are in San Francisco, but our team is worldwide. We use all of Cisco's technology tools to collaborate from diverse locations, so this role is available from anywhere in the United States, enabling you to work with colleagues during business hours in the Pacific time zone.

Bonus Points

Successful product managers often have varied backgrounds.

• Product Management experience with endpoint security products and a deep understanding of endpoint protection platforms, EDR solutions, and threat landscape.
• You have experience working with a broad user experience team that conducts research and validates designs before handoff to engineering.
• Understanding of Easy PSK and its application within access control.
• Understanding of MDM solutions and CMDB.
• You have worked with data science and AI/ML teams to gain a deep understanding of patterns in the data.
• Ability to analyze and model both technical and business solutions.
• Technical background with experience in software development or network engineering.
• Certifications relevant to product management or cybersecurity (e.g., Pragmatic Marketing, Scrum, CISSP).

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.

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.