Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Collaboration Experiences

About the Role

Webex by Cisco is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management for AI Collaboration Experiences—an inspiring leader who will set the pace for how people and AI, and AI to AI, will collaborate today and in the future. In this pivotal role, you’ll spearhead the evolution of our vision, Connected Intelligence, harnessing AI to create smarter, more secure, and truly inclusive collaboration experiences trusted by leading organizations everywhere. You’ll lead a world-class team, drive bold innovation, and launch AI-powered solutions that empower people to achieve more—together.

This is an opportunity to mentor and lead a talented and motivated product team. Collaborate deeply with AI research teams, translate complex, opaque AI technologies into intuitive, user-facing applications that are habit forming. The role has tremendous growth potential and executive leadership exposure: we are looking for a product leader who is equally comfortable defining and articulating the vision and fostering attention to detail in product execution. This leader will bring a passion for building products that users love and will cultivate the same in the product organization.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and direction for collaboration software applications, and establishes the product/builder culture for the next era
• Defines product and technology roadmaps for multiple product lines/multiple technologies/multiple
• Leads various executive sponsors and stakeholders through a collaborative process for development of, and alignment to, longer-term vision and strategy
• Ensures BU needs, critical business issues, market needs, and core product strategies are addressed in portfolio roadmap decisions
• Partners across the business to enable organization transformation and maturity, incorporating emerging trends and appropriate technologies
• Shapes the opinions of, and negotiates with, other senior leaders; establishes collaborative relationships across Cisco and with external parties (as required)
• Proactively extends Cisco's and portfolio's prominence and public perception

Requirements

• Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 10 years of related experience
• In the recent three to five years, product leadership experience building and scaling AI-enabled software
• Proven track record leading zero to one products or leading product transformations at scale
• Deep knowledge of AI agent architectures, including LLMs, RAG, reasoning, planning, memory, and orchestration
• Proven ability to drive product decisions with agility, metrics driven result orientation in a rapidly evolving context and market landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to define performance metrics and run trade-off experiments across user value, cost, and risk
• Experience translating intricate, enterprise-scale workflows into clean, reusable product patterns
• Experience managing managers

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. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.

We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $284,700.00 to $390,900.00 for new hires 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.

Full salary ranges for specific locations:

• New York City Metro Area: $284,700.00 - $449,500.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $272,000.00 - $398,000.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Grants of Cisco restricted stock units (vesting based on continued employment)
• Paid time off:
  • 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
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
  • Exempt employees: Flexible vacation time off with no defined limit (subject to business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours carried forward annually
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Annual bonuses (subject to Cisco’s policies for non-sales roles)
• For sales roles: Performance-based incentive pay split between quota and non-quota components