Principal Product Manager - AI Canvas, Studio
Cisco
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Meet The Team
The AI Software & Platform Team delivers Agentic operations — applying AI agents to automate cross-domain workflows in security and networking
Your Impact
As a Principal Product Manager on our team, you will build Cisco’s Agent Studio - Cisco’s platform for building and orchestrating AI agents at scale. You will use AI Canvas as the runtime for these Agentic workflows and, more importantly, as the interface where Agents will collaborate with humans (human-in-the-loop). You will be adept at collaborating with various cross-functional teams at Cisco and external collaborators such as the Partner ecosystem and Customers to inform strategy and roadmap. Will be an authority in the field of AI to know where the technology is headed and design for what will be possible in the future, not just be limited to what is possible today.
- Lead high-value customer and partner engagements to shape roadmap priorities and validate product decisions.
- Collaborate across Cisco business units and external partners to align technologies and deliver cross-domain solutions.
- Partner with Engineering, ML Scientists, Designers, and Product Marketing to build and deliver innovative Agentic Ops features - applying AI agents to automate cross-domain workflows
- Validate and refine Agentic Ops features through user interviews, quantitative research, and ongoing customer engagement.
- Build a differentiated AI roadmap, using LLM Ops, orchestration frameworks, evaluations, safety/guardrails
- Represent Cisco externally in conferences, standards groups, and industry forums to establish thought leadership.
- Mentor and develop Product Managers, encouraging a strong and high-performing product management community.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience
Preferred Qualifications
- A technical background or degree is preferred, especially related to AI.
- Desirable to have deep expertise and experience with building Agentic systems
- Proven experience building zero-to-one products using design thinking, lean startup, or rapid prototyping.
- Strong conceptual thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to stay ahead of fast paced AI trends and translate them into product opportunities.
- A willingness to challenge assumptions and solicit different perspectives
- Ability to evaluate alternatives qualitatively and quantitatively and make compelling recommendations based on confirmed case analysis.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating courageously 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. Simply put – we power the future.
Motivated by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create significant 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 compassion 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.
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When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.