Director, AI Product Management

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Location: San Jose, CA

Alternate location: Anywhere on the west coast

Meet The Team

The Cisco AI Software & Platform Group incubates and delivers Generative AI based solutions to reinvent Cisco's existing Products and how customers harmonize with them. Our Group is also introducing new offerings that help customers roll out Generative AI at scale while doing so responsibly. Ultimately, we are doing so through internal platforms that unlock the benefits of this technology for Cisco teams and partners across our Security, Enterprise Networking, and Splunk portfolios.

Your Impact

We are launching a ground-breaking internal AI initiative to unify and supercharge the sales experience across Cisco. Our vision is to consolidate critical tools, marketing collateral systems, and more-into a single intelligence layer that gives every seller real-time, contextual information for every deal. We are seeking a Principal Product Manager with deep expertise in AI for productivity and work to lead this effort from strategy to execution. You'll shape the next generation of AI-powered enterprise productivity inside one of the world's largest technology companies. This is a high-visibility role with direct impact on Cisco's revenue engine and a mandate to innovate at scale.

* Be responsible for the platform vision and strategy for a single management pane that unifies Cisco products and third-party integrations.

* Define APIs and data contracts that enable secure, real-time information flow and contextual recommendations.

* Lead AI-native experiences: recommendations, autonomous remediation, natural-language, and agentic workflows that learn from practitioner actions.

* Deliver experiences that give salespeople deal-specific intelligence at their fingertips-from call summaries and opportunity scoring to the best marketing content for each stage of the customer journey.

* Ensure the platform adapts to different sales motions (enterprise, mid-market, channel) and supports global scale.

* Validate with stakeholder teams; set adoption, and TTV targets; instrument the platform for actionable metrics.

* Run alpha/beta/GA programs; lead backlog and phased delivery across multiple teams; ship value continuously.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years, or PhD + 8 years in product management (or equivalent), including platform or cross-portfolio products.

* Confirmed delivery of multi-product or ecosystem platforms (APIs, data models, identity/policy, extensibility).

* 3+ years building AI-powered product experiences (e.g., retrieval-augmented assistants, recommendations, or automation).

* Proficiency with cloud architectures (multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, data pipelines, eventing) and observability/security basics.

* Strong partner leadership across engineering, design, CX, sales, partners, and executive forums.

Preferred Qualifications

* Background spanning networking, security, observability and lifecycle management at enterprise scale.

* Experience with policy engines, automation/orchestration, and agentic workflows.

* Proficient in defining critical metrics and running evidence-based roadmaps.

* Background in sales technology (CRM, sales enablement, or marketing automation).

* Experience building products for large, distributed sales organizations.

* Familiarity with data governance and enterprise security requirements

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.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.