Product Manager, Cloud Platform (Data & Telemetry) (Remote) at Cisco

Cloud Platform Team Role

Come join the Cloud Platform team. We build the data and telemetry foundation behind cloud-managed networking experiences for customers. Partner with passionate product teams and engineers who use our platform to deliver reliable, high-fidelity insights and capabilities. Work in a cross-functional environment spanning product management, engineering, data science, and design, with a collaborative, technically curious, and customer-focused vibe. Connect streaming telemetry infrastructure and data services to Meraki's broader cloud strategy, enabling internal teams to build differentiated customer experiences. Help shape a platform that is evolving to support the next generation of AI-driven and agentic networking.

Your Impact

Define and own a multi-quarter roadmap for telemetry ingestion and data-platform capabilities to advance Meraki's cloud strategy. Lead planning and prioritization across engineering partners, balancing performance, scalability, reliability, customer needs, and market opportunities. Translate distributed-system constraints and data requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, and measurable outcomes for high-availability, low-latency services. Build and evangelize APIs, tools, data structures, and access patterns that help internal product teams and future AI/ML capabilities use telemetry effectively. Measure success through platform reliability, latency, scale, adoption, and the customer experiences enabled by the platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience and 3+ years of product management experience with cloud platforms, data infrastructure, SaaS networking, or a comparable technical product area.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in technical product development.
• Experience defining a product roadmap and requirements for at least one backend, platform, data, or infrastructure capability delivered to production.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams on APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, or cloud architecture.
• Experience using product, platform, or operational metrics to prioritize work and evaluate outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with one or more streaming, messaging, caching, relational, or time-series technologies, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, or time-series databases.
• Experience with Kubernetes or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environments.
• Experience defining 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 services.
• Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering and non-technical stakeholders.