Job ID: 1451150

This is a hybrid role with two days per week at Cisco’s San Jose office.

Meet the Team

Cisco is building a unified, AI-native management platform that integrates Networking, Security, Observability, Collaboration, and more into a single, coherent platform experience. You will join a motivated platform team collaborating across Cisco. We ship iteratively, measure outcomes, and focus on customer and partner time-to-value. You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Data/AI, Customer Experience, Sales, and Strategy teams, as well as external technology partners.

Your Impact

You will support the integration strategy and execution that enables Cisco product teams and external partners to connect with our unified AI-native management platform. You will work closely with the core platform team and product groups to facilitate onboarding, ensure consistent experiences, and help drive adoption.

• Contribute to the platform vision and roadmap for a unified management pane that brings together Cisco products and third-party integrations.

• Assist in defining platform primitives such as tenancy, identity and access control, policy, events, data models, workflow orchestration, extensibility, and marketplace.

• Support AI-native experiences including recommendations, autonomous remediation, natural-language, and agentic workflows that learn from practitioner actions.

• Collaborate with cross-business units to align on APIs, telemetry, and policy for consistent UX and lifecycle integration.

• Partner with design to help deliver an opinionated, progressive-disclosure UX that scales from quick tasks to complex operations.

• Help validate with lighthouse customers; assist in setting adoption and time-to-value targets; contribute to platform instrumentation for actionable metrics.

• Support building business cases and pricing/packaging proposals with Finance, Legal, and GTM teams; enable field, CX, and partners for launch.

• Participate in alpha/beta/GA programs; assist in backlog management and phased delivery across multiple teams; contribute to continuous value delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management (or equivalent), including experience with platform or cross-portfolio products.

• Experience delivering multi-product or ecosystem platforms involving APIs, data models, identity/policy, and extensibility.

• 1+ years building AI-powered product experiences such as retrieval-augmented assistants, recommendations, or automation.

• Familiarity with cloud architectures (multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, data pipelines, eventing) and observability/security fundamentals.

• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, design, CX, sales, partners, and executive forums.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in networking, security, observability, and lifecycle management at enterprise scale.

• Experience with policy engines, automation/orchestration, and agentic workflows.

• Ability to define critical metrics and contribute to evidence-based roadmaps.

• Strong communication and storytelling skills; ability to simplify complexity for executive and customer audiences.

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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. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 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 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%; and

• Once 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.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$168,800.00 - $277,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$148,800.00 - $248,200.00

* 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.