The application window is expected to close on: 11/02/2026Meet the Team The Cisco Cloud Control team is building a unified operating experience across Cisco's networking, security, compute, observability, and collaboration products. Our deployment portability work brings Cloud Control capabilities to customer-managed, hybrid, sovereign, and disconnected environments with different connectivity, operational control, and data governance requirements. We partner across product management, engineering, security, compliance, legal, operations, support, and integrated Cisco product teams to make each supported deployment model secure, resilient, serviceable, and practical to operate. The team is cross-functional, technically engaged, and focused on preserving a coherent product experience as infrastructure and operating boundaries change. This role will shape how Cloud Control serves customers that cannot rely on a standard public cloud deployment. Your Impact Own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for Cisco Cloud Control on-premises deployments and sovereign cloud offerings, from deployment-model definition through lifecycle, launch, and measurable adoption. • Define supported deployment profiles and product boundaries for connected, intermittently connected, disconnected, and jurisdiction-specific environments, including what runs locally and what depends on Cisco cloud services. • Set product requirements for installation, upgrades, version compatibility, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, serviceability, capacity expansion, and secure decommissioning across the customer-managed lifecycle. • Translate sovereignty, data residency, identity, encryption, privileged access, audit, operational control, support, and regional continuity needs into clear product capabilities and release criteria. • Lead execution across engineering, security, compliance, legal, operations, support, and integrated product teams, setting measurable outcomes for deployment success, upgrade reliability, availability, recovery, supportability, and customer adoption. Minimum Qualifications • Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience • 5+ years of experience working with customer-managed enterprise software, hybrid or private cloud, sovereign cloud, appliances, or distributed platforms. • Experience defining production requirements for installation, upgrades, version compatibility, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, security, data residency, or operational support. • Experience leading at least one multi-team product or platform initiative from discovery and product definition through production delivery. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms, virtual or physical appliances, private cloud, or disconnected deployments. • Knowledge of data, operational, and technological sovereignty requirements, including residency, local control, audit, and continuity considerations. • Experience defining lifecycle products for software installation, upgrade orchestration, rollback, backup and restore, high availability, disaster recovery, and secure decommissioning. • Experience defining identity, PKI, secrets, encryption, role-based access, audit, and secure support requirements for customer-controlled environments. • Ability to explain technical and regulatory tradeoffs to senior leaders and align teams with separate roadmaps, operating models, and ownership boundaries. Why Cisco?  At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.  We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.  Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco • Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations) • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: • .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; • 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; • 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and • Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below: New York City Metro Area: $171,600.00 - $281,800.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $151,300.00 - $250,900.00 * For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. ** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.