Product Management Specialist II (Intern) United States

Applications are accepted until further notice.

Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.

Meet the team

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, marketing, sales, and operations, as well as expert product managers and senior leadership. You will also engage with senior leadership to align product strategies, present key insights, and implement process improvements, all while contributing to high-impact projects. Get ready to make your mark!

Your impact

You will drive projects with market analysis and product definition while applying product management skills and methodologies. You work cross-functionally through Cisco channels, business units and internal organizations and work with product managers to build:

• Product strategy documents including marketing requirements
• Product requirements
• Product life-cycle-commit process
• Job-role analysis

You will present to the leadership and other members of the organization, identify process gaps and process implementation planning as you continue to support and further build change management processes. Your ideas can spark real change!

Join us as we transform the world of tomorrow! Develop creative ideas on how to work better and more inquisitively. Influence and participate in top-priority projects that have a real impact.

Minimum qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a certification program (e.g., Boot Camp, Apprenticeship, Community College) or in an undergraduate degree program with 2 years of relevant experience, OR currently enrolled in a graduate degree program with 0 years of relevant experience. Relevant fields include: Business Administration, Data Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Engineering Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related technical/business field.
• Experience with networking, analytical, and/or product management concepts.
• Strong technical background (e.g., software engineering, network administration, or related experience)

Preferred qualifications

• Technical foundation and experience with programming languages (such as R, Python, or C++) or relevant frameworks.
• Foundational understanding of building platform or common services, and how they operate across different product teams.
• Ability to define problems, develop clear requirements, and outline solutions for technical challenges, with a foundational understanding of platform or common services across product teams.
• Demonstrated curiosity about or experience collaborating with engineering and UX design teams to develop product solutions.
• Interest in cybersecurity, cloud platforms, or unified policy management domains.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.