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About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the go-to-market strategy for AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking. This role involves aggregating intelligence across domains into a coherent product narrative that drives customer adoption and competitive differentiation, sitting at the intersection of multiple AI product lines and networking platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own use case strategy, curating and prioritizing the use case portfolio across AI product lines.
- Aggregate intelligence across domains, synthesizing adoption data, customer feedback, competitive signals, and engineering capabilities.
- Drive go-to-market strategy for Cisco Networking's AI capabilities, coordinating launches and defining positioning.
- Shape external narrative for executive leadership, analyst engagements, and customer-facing presentations.
- Define agent taxonomy and messaging, framing how agentic capabilities are communicated externally.
- Bridge networking and central AI, advocating for networking-specific requirements.
- Drive customer adoption by engaging directly with enterprise customers to validate use cases.
- Build coalitions to align stakeholders across GTM, field sales, analyst relations, CX, and engineering.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise/SaaS software products, ideally in networking, cloud, or monitoring.
- Strong GTM instincts with experience in field sales, analyst relations, and marketing.
- Experience with AI/ML technologies, including large language models and agentic architectures.
- Ability to synthesize information across multiple product lines and domains into a unified narrative and prioritized roadmap.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience navigating matrixed organizations and building coalitions across competing priorities.
- Strong ownership and decision-making abilities.
- Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent.
- Advanced degree is a plus.
Skills
- Product Management
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- AI/ML Technologies
- Large Language Models
- Agentic Architectures
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Enterprise Software
- SaaS
- Networking
- Cloud
- Monitoring
- Communication
- Coalition Building
Location
- U.S.
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent
- Advanced degree is a plus
Salary/Compensations
- $225,000.00 - $325,300.00 (U.S. and/or Canada)
- $225,000.00 - $374,100.00 (New York City Metro Area)
- $208,600.00 - $330,000.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 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
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- Flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
About the Company
- Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network.
- Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues.
- ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond.
- 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.
- Our solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
- We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: 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.
- The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
- 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.
- 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)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
- 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 sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
- Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.