Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with various teams, such as engineering, product management, operations, and marketing, to align project goals and ensure cohesive execution.
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact on project timelines and deliverables.
- Serve as a central point of contact for project updates and communications, ensuring stakeholders are informed of progress, challenges, and changes.
- Oversee project budgets, ensuring financial resources are used effectively and efficiently to meet project goals.
- Ensure that engineering outputs meet Cisco's quality standards and customer expectations.
- Track project performance using appropriate Jira, Confluence and SharePoint
- Report on progress, successes, and areas for improvement.
- Provide guidance and support to engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization and implement improvements to enhance project efficiency and outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with computer science or STEM degree with12+ years of experience within a program or product manager role or Master’s degree plus 6+ years of related experience.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience working with AI/ML technologies, frameworks, and tools such as LangChain, PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- 4+ years of software development experience using Java, C, C++ or Python.
- Experience managing technical programs using agile project methodologies with the use of technologies such as Jira, Confluence or SharePoint
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP Certification -Lean Six Sigma certification or Business Process Management or continuous improvement experience
- Experience in identifying, analyzing, and resolving program issues
- End user customer/partner or developer community experience
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).