Engineering Product Manager, Cloud Control Studio

About the role

This role will be remote to the San Jose, CA or Seattle, WA location. The AI Software & Platform Group is building the platform for AI app development, and Cloud Control Studio is the experience on top of it. We are hiring a leader to own that experience, free and paid alike.

Your Impact

You own how builders create in Cloud Control Studio: how someone goes from a prompt to a running, production-grade app, whether they build it in Studio or bring their own coding agent. AI is rewriting how software gets built, and Studio is how Cisco meets builders where that is going. Your scope spans both the free and the paid capabilities of that experience.

Responsibilities

You shape the strategy for the experience and carry accountability for where it goes, working closely with engineering and the partners around you. You own how building feels: how someone describes what they want, previews it, refines it with AI, and ships it, whether they are in App Builder or bringing their own coding agent. You own the commercial model: which capabilities are free, which are paid, and how the two fit together as builders move between them in whatever direction their work takes them.

Requirements

• 8+ years in product management or an equivalent discipline, including owning a product or experience end to end with accountability for both adoption and business or revenue outcomes.
• Hands-on software engineering background. You have shipped production code and can earn the trust and respect of senior engineers on technical merits.
• Concept to adoption. Demonstrated experience taking a product from concept to a shipping, widely adopted state with real commercial outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain depth: AI application platforms and app builders, including prompt-to-app or agentic app-generation products.
• Hands on experience using AI coding agents, and a feel for how AI is reshaping the way software gets built.
• Commercial model design: owning pricing, packaging, and how free and paid capabilities fit together for a developer or platform product.
• Partner ownership: comfort owning a major ecosystem or model-provider relationship end to end.
• Coherence at the seams: experience unifying multiple product surfaces into one experience that feels like a single product.
• Communication: excellent written and verbal communication, with the range to speak credibly to internal teams and external customers and stakeholders alike.

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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $191,400.00 to $281,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Benefits

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. 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).

Schedule

Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.