Product Manager, WAN Optimization Product Line -- Winner of 2008 Interop Award

Would you like to provide product management and marketing direction to a product line that's winner of 2008 Best of Interop award and Cisco Pioneer award? Does your dedication to customer success drive you to build key relationships at all levels of your sales/marketing staff, engineering, and customers? If so, then Cisco wants you to join the group that works on WAN Optimization. This individual contributor role leads definition of Cisco's Data Center and Branch Office products.

Responsibilities include:

* Defining product features by understanding the market, customers, and new opportunities
* Communicating to Cisco field and customers the product's capabilities, positioning in the market, and long term vision
* Understanding competitors’ positioning and strategies and developing Cisco strategy, positioning and response
* Working closely with account teams and customers
* Driving cross-functional product management engagements including software features, innovation as well as contribute to future WAN Optimization platforms

The following skills are required for this position:

* Solid understanding of WAN Optimization technology, Content Distribution, Video Distribution, IPv4/v6, and general IP networking
* Detailed understanding of operating system architecture and high availability computing including debug-ability, manageabiity and reliability
* 5+ years Product Manager and/or Sales Engineering experience in high-end routing area, preferably with service provider customers
* Ability to prioritize in the face of multiple requests and to complete deliverables
* Superior verbal and written communications skills and presentation skills
* Dynamic, enthusiastic and self-initiative personality