Principal Product Manager, AI Products

Cisco

Principal Product Manager for AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking. Focusing on customer adoption and competitive differentiation through cross-domain intelligence aggregation.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • California, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $225,000 - $325,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own use case strategy: Curate and prioritize the use case portfolio across AI product lines.
Aggregate intelligence across domains: Synthesize adoption data, customer feedback, competitive signals, and engineering capabilities into a unified view of where Cisco's AI networking products stand and where they're headed.
Drive go-to-market: Own the GTM narrative for Cisco Networking's AI capabilities.
Shape external narrative: Author the product story for executive leadership, analyst engagements (Gartner, etc.), and customer-facing presentations.
Define agent taxonomy and messaging: Frame how agentic capabilities are communicated externally.
Bridge networking and central AI: Own the cross-BU relationship with Cisco's Central AI organization.
Drive customer adoption: Engage directly with enterprise customers to validate use cases, define adoption frameworks, and shape the path from early availability to general availability.
Build coalitions: Align stakeholders across GTM, field sales, analyst relations, CX, and engineering.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise/SaaS software products, ideally in networking, cloud, or monitoring.
Strong GTM instincts — you turn technical capabilities into customer-facing stories that sell.
Experience with field sales, analyst relations, and marketing.
Experience with AI/ML technologies — large language models, agentic architectures, multi-agent systems.
Ability to synthesize across multiple product lines and domains into a unified narrative and prioritized roadmap.
Excellent written and verbal communication — you can brief a Gartner analyst, a CIO, and engineering leadership in the same week.
Experience navigating matrixed organizations and building coalitions across competing priorities.
Strong ownership. You organize the meetings, write the first draft, and make the call.
Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent. Advanced degree is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date
up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managemententerprise softwareSaaSAI technologiesML technologieslarge language modelsagentic architecturesmulti-agent systemsadoption frameworksroadmap synthesis

Soft Skills

communicationstorytellingstakeholder alignmentownershipcollaborationnarrative shapingcustomer engagementanalytical thinkingpresentation skillsmatrix organization navigation

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in EngineeringAdvanced degree