Principal Product Management Engineer

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We are a close-knit team focused on hardware quality and failure analysis, within a larger hardware engineering organization which designs, implements, and delivers leading Switching and Routing products. The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. We design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio.

The Principal Product Management Engineer-Optics defines and executes the product line strategy for the company, including product roadmap and requirements, marketing strategy and focus and long-term planning. This position manages the product through its lifecycle, from development to launch, sampling, volume production and end-of-life. The PLM works closely with R&D on the product definition, with Sales on strategy and customer engagement and with Operations on short and long-term forecasting.

Specific responsibilities include:

*Contributor to product line roadmap and new product pipeline

*Help develop and drive execution of product roadmap and product strategy to be in line with corporate strategy and business objectives

*Manage products through entire product lifecycle from kick-off through to end of life

*Drives cross functional core product team

*Provides visibility to management on major market/customer changes, business outlook, potential risks and resource constraints

*Develops product price strategy and supports quoting process

*Proposes and initiates cost reduction programs to improve profitability of the product line

*BS in Electrical Engineering or related degree with 15+ years of work experience or MS Electrical Engineering or related degree with 12+ years of related work experience

*Prior experience with electronics development

*Prior experience in the webscale market

*Prior experience in Product Architecture or Product Management

*PhD in Electrical Engineering or related degree with 5+ years of related work experience

*Experience with Optical development