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Cisco Senior Director Product Management AI Defense 
United States, California, San Jose 
159465513

18.03.2025

The application window is expected to close on: March 20th, 5 PM ET.

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

Your Impact

As Senior Director of Product Management, you have a strong mix of product management, technology, people leadership, and GenAI domain competence, coupled with strategic vision and proven execution. You will mentor senior product managers towards new incubation efforts in alignment to current and future AI based product offerings. You will define and lead overall AI/ML product strategy and roadmap and understand industry trends and competitive landscape relating to overall AI domain.

In this role, you can expect to:

  • Work with customers to understand problems, priorities, and common themes.
  • Work with leadership team to devise business strategy and investment roadmap.
  • Brainstorm and review ideas, proposals, and strategy with other Cisco businesses, corporate development, and strategy teams.
  • Lead a team of high caliber product managers to drive fast paced and high bar delivery of product management artifacts.
  • Work with engineering, design, machine learning (ML) scientists, and program operations to define and implement the product plan.
  • Work with marketing, growth, and business development teams to develop and execute effective Go-To-Market strategies for your product.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Working with engineering, design, and operations in defining an operating model for driving the product roadmap including defining Agile Framework for execution, resource planning, funding, prioritization, and phased approach of business commit to drive, project/product development.
  • Conducting market feasibility & readiness, assessment, industry research, Tracking VC & startup community in addition to following what large innovative companies are doing in the AI space.
  • Articulating Total Addressable Market (TAM) we can target after analyzing user problems in the target market.
  • Taking complete ownership for the product market fit and delivery of business goals and key results.
  • Defining the criteria for ideal customer for Minimal Viable Product (MVP) and actively participate in defining GTM, working with key partners.
  • Setting up the right business model for your product areas including forecast, financial health, pricing, and resourcing.
  • Establishing landmarks & metrics to evaluate the success and failure of the project.
  • Developing and growing the product managers on the team.
  • Building thought leadership narratives across product, technology, and process innovations.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Demonstrable experience in product management building technical products, preferrably in the Generative or Predictive AI technology.
  • You have 5+ years of management experience, leading product management or technical, marketing, or engineering teams with a proven track record in execution and team development.
  • You hold a Bachelor's Degree (technical preferred), with a Master’s or MBA being a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Expertise in building decision frameworks that help make objective investment calls with a deep understanding of the emerging trends in Generative AI.
  • Demonstrable experience in building products within the security and networking space.
  • Experience defining epics and writing user stories.
  • Skilled in design thinking and UX/UI methodologies.
  • Masters' degree or equivalent experience strongly preferred.

We offer extensive employee benefits including unlimited PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.