Product Manager, Meraki Cloud Platform – Data & Telemetry

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Establish and manage a multi-quarter roadmap for telemetry ingestion and data-platform capabilities to enhance Meraki's cloud strategy.

• Guide planning and prioritization efforts with engineering partners, balancing performance, scalability, reliability, customer requirements, and market opportunities.

• Convert distributed-system limitations and data needs into precise product requirements, user stories, and measurable outcomes for high-availability, low-latency services.

• Develop and promote APIs, tools, data structures, and access patterns that assist internal product teams and prospective AI/ML functionalities in effectively utilizing telemetry.

• Assess success through platform reliability, latency, scalability, adoption, and the customer experiences facilitated by the platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience and at least 3 years of product management experience with cloud platforms, data infrastructure, SaaS networking, or a similar technical product domain.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience in technical product development.

• Proven experience in defining a product roadmap and requirements for at least one backend, platform, data, or infrastructure capability that has been delivered to production.

• Experience collaborating with engineering teams on APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, or cloud architecture.

• Proficiency in utilizing product, platform, or operational metrics to prioritize tasks and assess outcomes.

• Familiarity with one or more technologies related to streaming, messaging, caching, relational databases, or time-series, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, or time-series databases.

• Experience working in Kubernetes or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments.

• Ability to define data structures or access patterns for AI/ML models, analytics products, or autonomous agents.

• Experience with enterprise networking, telemetry platforms, observability products, or large-scale SaaS solutions.

• Capable of clearly communicating complex technical trade-offs to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

• Paid parental leave.

• Short and long-term disability coverage.

• Basic life insurance.

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.

• 1 paid day off for the employee’s birthday.

• Paid year-end holiday shutdown.

• 4 paid days off for personal wellness as determined by Cisco.

• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time.

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program.

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1st thereafter.

• Up to 80 hours of unused sick time can be carried forward from one calendar year to the next.

• Additional paid time off may be requested to address critical or emergency issues involving family members.

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year for volunteering.

• Employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses in accordance with Cisco’s policies.