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Meet the Team

You will join the Silicon Strategy & Portfolio Management team—the technical and strategic "engine room" behind Cisco’s hardware innovation. We are a high-impact group of "Marchitects" who bridge the gap between long-term market disruption and immediate silicon architecture. Our team is responsible for the strategic roadmap of Cisco Silicon One and our broader SoC portfolio, ensuring we power everything from the world’s largest service providers to the next generation of AI-driven data centers. We thrive on solving complex trade-offs, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and building the most efficient silicon ecosystem on the planet.

Your Impact

You will lead systematic market-driven silicon portfolio analysis of Cisco’s silicon and define requirements that drive portfolio-level differentiations, increase product reuse, and expand addressable markets.

• Lead portfolio optimization initiatives to increase cross-product reuse and simplicity.
• Drive cross-product differentiation initiatives with PLMs, system architecture, and software at a total network level.
• Define building block requirements that maximize development efficiency and analyze TAM coverage for smart segmentation.
• Own competitive portfolio analysis and synthesize mega-trends into portfolio-level requirements.
• Establish portfolio governance, trade-off forums, and decision logs while publishing periodic roadmap packages.
• Deliver measurable improvements in building‑block reuse and cross‑product differentiation, enabling scalability and efficiency across complex product lines.
• Team player leader who leads through collaboration and influence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 12+ years in product/portfolio management within the networking or silicon industry.
• Experience translating market needs into architecture‑level requirements, driving roadmap decisions across switching/routing layers, product portfolios, network processors, traffic management, and emerging networking software trends.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing silicon portfolios spanning from entry access routers to hyperscaler AI switching SoCs.
• Prior experience influencing and aligning cross‑functional stakeholders to drive successful roadmap planning cycles, ensuring on‑time delivery and operational rigor.
• Experience translating disruption signals into defensible competitive advantages.

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 $230,100.00 to $325,300.00 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:

$230,100.00 - $374,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$216,500.00 - $337,000.00

* 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.