Product Manager, Cisco Silicon AI Switching

Cisco • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

As a Product Manager for Cisco Silicon’s ScaleOut segment, you will drive end to end product management and market success for AI ScaleOut and frontend networking commissioned products for hyperscaler and NeoCloud customers. You will maximize adoption and return by defining silicon and software packages, feature usecase priorities, and SKUs, ensuring whole-product market readiness across silicon, and software.
You will manage the products during execution phase, maintaining a focal priorities' voice for engineering. Partnering closely with Sales and Business Units, you will lead lighthouse customer engagement, RFI/RFP execution, and market sensing, translating customer and competitive insights into actionable product and business outcomes.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field required with 12+ years of experience in product management and go-to-market roles within networking or silicon organizations.
• Prior experience in networking silicon and ScaleOut architectures, including frontend networks.
• Experience working across silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver complete, market-ready solutions.
• Experience translating technical features into compelling value propositions and customer-facing messaging.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative silicon and networking solutions.
• Experience in competitive positioning and developing go-to-market strategies.
• Prior experience in business planning, including market sizing, forecasting, and running product transitions.
• Experience with Customer engagement driving design wins and RFI/RFP execution.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end product management for AI ScaleOut and frontend networking products, ensuring market success and customer adoption.
• Define silicon and software packages, feature/use case priorities, and SKUs, ensuring whole-product readiness across silicon and software.
• Lead the execution phase of product management, acting as the focal point for engineering priorities and cross-functional alignment.
• Partner with Sales and Business Units to drive lighthouse customer engagement, RFI/RFP execution, and translate insights into actionable product and business outcomes.
• Own market sizing, business case development, pricing/quoting, NPI sample demand planning, silicon ramp planning, and product transitions.
• Drive go-to-market ramps, value propositions, competitive positioning, customer-facing collateral, and sales enablement, crafting Cisco’s ScaleOut portfolio and future innovation.
• Strong attention to detail with experience running execution cadence, forecasts, pricing, samples, and product transitions in fast-paced environments.

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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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