Engineering Product Manager, Integrations (Hybrid)

Cisco Systems, Inc.•San Jose, CA

37d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

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.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
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.