NEW!!! Product Manager - UCS Platform Ecosystem - San Jose, CA

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Summary
As a key contributor to Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) product management team, you will help drive the industry’s most innovative and rapidly growing fabric computing platform. Cisco is looking for an energetic, self-motivating, articulate product manager to own the UCS operating system strategy and execution in addition to other responsibilities that advance the UCS software ecosystem. UCS product managers have high visibility as they work directly with customers, sales, marketing, engineering, and executive staff.

Key Responsibilities
The product manager will work closely with UCS ecosystem partners with a focus on operating system vendors including Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, and VMware to drive roadmap development and delivery. Primary activities include:
• OS integration strategy with a broad set of UCS products
• Documenting requirements
• Reviewing requirements and delivery progress with a broad set of business stakeholders including engineering, support, and executives
• Go-to-market planning and coordination across Cisco organizations
• Development of marketing and sales collateral
• Lead contract negotiations teams from across Cisco businesses with stakeholders from alliances, legal, finance, manufacturing, product Management, support, and services
• Analyze and provide recommendations for contract terms including discounts, time horizons, suitable language and options for market/company dynamics
• Manage multiple partner projects and the deliverables for each project
Job Requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Able to synthesize complex technical and market issues, develop insights into and solutions for those challenges, and gain acceptance and commitment from others
• Proven ability to collaborate with partners outside the core business and lead teams across decentralized organizations
• Two-plus years of experience in product management, product marketing, technical marketing, or technical pre-sales, preferably with server or enterprise software experience
• Five-plus years in a position of technical, engineering, or support responsibility, preferably including server or enterprise software products
• BSEE/CS or equivalent work experience

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