Product Manager, AI Security (Hybrid)

Cisco • Milpitas, MI

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Manager will own a meaningful product domain within Cisco AI Defense end to end, from customer and market problem discovery through strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. The role develops a 12–18 month domain strategy and translates it into a multi-quarter roadmap with defined outcomes, milestones, success measures, and prioritization choices.

The position requires deep knowledge of the domain’s customer workflows, technical architecture, ecosystem, security landscape, and emerging technologies. The Product Manager works directly with enterprise customers, security teams, AI builders, partners, field teams, Engineering, and Design to understand customer problems and develop scalable product capabilities. The role owns product discovery and requirements, contributes to technical and prioritization trade-offs, and uses adoption, usage, quality, customer, and business signals to measure outcomes.

The Product Manager remains engaged through readiness, documentation, enablement, launch, adoption, feedback, and iteration. The role also provides product leadership in ambiguous and rapidly changing areas, builds partnerships across Cisco teams, identifies shared platform capabilities and integrations, and communicates strategy, priorities, technical trade-offs, and outcomes to customers, partners, internal teams, and leadership.

This is a hybrid role requiring onsite work a few times a week at the Milpitas or Seattle office. The application window is expected to close on 11/12/2026. The posted starting salary range for U.S. and/or Canada locations is $171,600–$245,000, with location-specific ranges also provided in the posting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Product Management experience, Master’s degree and 6 years of Product Management experience, or PhD and 3 years of Product Management experience.
• Product management experience building and managing enterprise SaaS products, with ownership spanning discovery, requirements, roadmap, delivery, launch, and customer adoption.
• Experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, observability, or adjacent enterprise technology domains.
• Experience working directly with Engineering and Design teams to deliver technically complex SaaS capabilities and customer experiences.
• Experience engaging enterprise customers to understand problems, validate requirements, and inform product decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building AI/ML, Generative AI, or agentic AI products involving AI applications, agents, models, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure.
• Ability to develop product strategy from customer and market problems rather than primarily managing feature requests or execution backlogs.
• Strong technical fluency, including experience working with engineering teams on APIs, cloud architectures, integrations, developer workflows, distributed systems, data models, or security technologies.
• Experience translating patterns across multiple customers and market signals into scalable product capabilities and differentiated product strategy.
• Strong product judgment and ability to prioritize under ambiguity, balancing immediate customer needs with longer-term platform investments.
• Track record of driving work beyond product definition through execution, launch readiness, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
• Ability to influence and align Engineering, Design, go-to-market teams, leadership, and other product organizations without relying on organizational authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including simplifying complex technical and strategic topics for customers, engineering teams, and executives.
• Curiosity about AI and security, willingness to learn rapidly, and comfort in a market where customer needs, technologies, competitors, and security risks evolve quickly.
• Collaborative working style with a bias toward action, accountability, customer outcomes, high-quality execution, and improving the broader team’s effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Own a product domain within Cisco AI Defense from problem discovery through strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Develop a 12–18 month product strategy grounded in customer problems, market dynamics, technology shifts, competition, and measurable business outcomes.
• Translate strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap with defined outcomes, milestones, success measures, and explicit prioritization choices.
• Develop expertise in customer workflows, technical architecture, ecosystem, security landscape, and relevant emerging technologies.
• Engage enterprise customers, security teams, AI builders, partners, and field teams to understand problems firsthand and identify patterns.
• Turn customer and market insights into scalable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
• Own product discovery and requirements, working with Engineering and Design on architecture, APIs, integrations, data models, workflows, and customer experiences.
• Drive technical and prioritization trade-offs among strategic investments, customer needs, product quality, technical debt, and feature velocity.
• Define measurable product outcomes and use adoption, usage, quality, customer, and business signals to assess results.
• Stay involved beyond requirements and delivery through readiness, documentation, enablement, launch, customer adoption, feedback, and iteration.
• Provide product and domain leadership in ambiguous and rapidly changing areas, using customer evidence and data to guide decisions and execution.
• Build partnerships across Engineering, Design, Security Research, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, and other Cisco product teams.
• Identify shared platform capabilities, reusable primitives, integrations, and experiences that strengthen the broader AI Defense platform.
• Contribute to the broader Product team by sharing customer insights, constructively challenging assumptions, improving team operations, and helping teammates succeed.
• Communicate product strategy, priorities, technical trade-offs, and outcomes to customers, partners, internal teams, and leadership.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility and continued employment
• Paid holidays and floating holiday
• Paid birthday day off
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• Personal wellness days
• Paid vacation or flexible vacation time off, depending on employee classification
• Paid sick time
• Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
• Optional paid volunteer days
• Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior