Director, Product Management

Cisco•San Jose, CA

9d•$280,100 - $442,600

About The Position

Webex by Cisco is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management for AI Collaboration Experiences. This leader 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.

Requirements

Bachelors + 17 years of related experience, or Masters + 14 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

Nice To Haves

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
Also requires experience managing managers

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

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 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
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
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
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
annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)