Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Collaboration Experiences
About The Position
Webex by Cisco is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management for AI Collaboration Experiences. This role will set the pace for how people and AI, and AI to AI, will collaborate today and in the future. The Senior Director will spearhead the evolution of the vision, Connected Intelligence, harnessing AI to create smarter, more secure, and truly inclusive collaboration experiences. This role involves leading a world-class team, driving bold innovation, and launching AI-powered solutions. The position offers the opportunity to mentor and lead a talented product team, collaborate deeply with AI research teams, and translate complex AI technologies into intuitive, user-facing applications. The role has tremendous growth potential and executive leadership exposure, requiring a leader comfortable defining vision and fostering attention to detail in product execution, with a passion for building user-loved products.
Requirements
- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 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
- 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
- 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
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- 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 (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
