Principal Product Manager, AI Products - Cisco Networking

About the role

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences. We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the go-to-market strategy for AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking and to aggregate intelligence across domains into a coherent product narrative.

Responsibilities

• Own use case strategy: Curate and prioritize the use case portfolio across AI product lines. Decide what ships, what's deferred, and what matters to customers — not just what demos well.
• 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. Coordinate launches, availability programs, and customer enablement with GTM teams. Define positioning and messaging frameworks.
• Shape external narrative: Author the product story for executive leadership, analyst engagements (Gartner, etc.), and customer-facing presentations. Own competitive differentiation and the Cisco Live strategy.
• Define agent taxonomy and messaging: Frame how agentic capabilities are communicated externally — categories, composition, autonomy levels. Keep messaging grounded in what's shipping.
• Bridge networking and central AI: Own the cross-BU relationship with Cisco's Central AI organization. Advocate for networking-specific requirements and ensure domain use cases are represented.
• 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. Ensure the AI story is coherent across every audience.

Qualifications

• 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. You know what's real vs. what's hype.
• 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.

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $225,000.00 to $325,300.00 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. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Schedule

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%; andOnce 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.