Principal Product Manager, AI Products - Cisco Networking

Cisco

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Remote, USA Posted 17 days ago $225,000–$325,300 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Principal Product Manager at Cisco ThousandEyes, you will lead the go-to-market strategy for AI-powered use cases in Cisco Networking, synthesizing intelligence from across the portfolio to drive customer adoption and competitive differentiation. Your day-to-day involves curating and prioritizing use case portfolios, aggregating data into unified narratives, driving GTM initiatives, shaping external communications, defining agent taxonomy, and fostering cross-BU relationships with central AI teams. You will work closely with field sales, analysts, and engineering to ensure coherent messaging across all audiences. Ideal candidates have over a decade of product management experience in enterprise or SaaS products, particularly in networking, cloud, or monitoring, along with expertise in AI/ML technologies and strong GTM instincts. Excellent communication skills and the ability to navigate matrixed organizations are essential for success in this role.

Skills

AI ML LLM Agentic Architectures Multi-Agent Systems GTM CI/CD Networking Cloud Monitoring Python Go R Java Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure GitHub Jira Confluence PostgreSQL MongoDB Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Own use case strategy by curating and prioritizing AI product lines.
  • Aggregate intelligence from customer feedback, competitive signals, and engineering capabilities.
  • Drive go-to-market narrative for Cisco Networking's AI capabilities.
  • Shape external narrative for executive leadership and analyst engagements.
  • Define agent taxonomy and messaging for agentic capabilities in products.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise/SaaS software.
  • Proven ability to develop and execute go-to-market strategies for technology products.
  • Expertise in AI/ML technologies including large language models and agentic architectures.
  • Skill in synthesizing intelligence from multiple domains into a coherent narrative.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across diverse audiences.
  • Experience navigating complex organizations and building cross-functional coalitions.

Market check

Salary context

This $225,000–$325,300 range sits above 86% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$189,400–$262,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$197,312–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 238 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Cisco

Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

Cisco currently has 103 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$241,400 across 103 roles with salary data.

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