Engineering Product Manager, AI Canvas
About The Position
Cisco is building a unified, AI-native management platform that brings together Networking, Security, Observability, Collaboration and more into a single, coherent platform experience. You’ll join a small, highly motivated platform team that is partnering across Cisco. We ship iteratively, measure outcomes, and obsess over customer and partner time-to-value. You’ll collaborate daily with Engineering, Design, Data/AI, Customer Experience, Sales, and Strategy, plus external tech partners. You’ll also coordinate with exec sponsors across business units to land cross-portfolio initiatives at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years in product management (or equivalent), including platform or automation products
- Experience delivering AI-powered product experiences (e.g., intelligent assistants, recommendations, or automation)
- Background in network operations, IT operations, or enterprise automation at scale
- Experience working cross-functionally across engineering, design, CX, sales, partners, and executive forums
Nice To Haves
- Experience with agent platforms, orchestration systems, or workflow automation tools
- Understanding of partner ecosystems, multi-tenancy, and marketplace models
- Comfortable defining critical metrics and running evidence-based roadmaps
- Excellent narrative and storytelling skills; ability to simplify complexity for executive and customer audiences
Responsibilities
- Lead the product vision and strategy for an AI-native agent platform purpose-built for network operations
- Define platform capabilities: agent creation workflows, knowledge management, tool integrations, orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and extensibility
- Lead AI-powered experiences: natural language interfaces, intelligent recommendations, autonomous workflows, and agent reasoning capabilities
- Drive network domain differentiation: Leverage Cisco's network intelligence, integrations across Cisco portfolio, and enterprise-grade AI capabilities
- Partner with Design to deliver intuitive experiences that scale from simple tasks to complex automation scenarios
- Validate with lighthouse customers and partners: Set adoption and TTV targets; instrument the platform for actionable metrics
- Build business cases: Partner with Finance, Legal, and GTM on pricing/packaging proposals; enable field teams and partners for launch
- Run alpha/beta/GA programs: Lead backlog and phased delivery across multiple teams; ship value continuously
- Enable partner ecosystem: Define marketplace models, multi-tenancy requirements, and partner integration strategies
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- paid holidays
- floating holiday
- paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- paid days off for personal wellness
- paid vacation time
- sick time off
- paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses
- performance-based incentive pay
- restricted stock units
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
