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. This role sits at the intersection of multiple AI product lines and networking platforms, focusing on AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking.

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 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 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. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.