Description
As an AI Security Product Manager at Cisco, you will own a significant AI Security product domain within Cisco AI Defense, with end-to-end accountability for customer outcomes, strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and evolution.
You will shape a 12–18 month product strategy and longer-term vision, integrating deep understanding of AI technologies, cybersecurity, enterprise customers, competitive dynamics, emerging threats, and broader industry trends.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing deep expertise across the AI Security lifecycle and identifying new product adjacencies, emerging customer problems, and market opportunities
- Establishing a strong point of view on where AI Security is heading and translating changes in foundation models, open-weight models, agents, agentic frameworks, AI infrastructure, and security techniques into concrete product implications and investment decisions
- Translating strategy into clear multi-quarter roadmaps with measurable outcomes, explicit priorities, milestones, dependencies, and investment choices
- Leading customer discovery with enterprise security leaders, AI/ML teams, developers, application owners, risk teams, and partners
- Working closely with Engineering, Design, Security Research, and Architecture to explore and prototype emerging approaches
- Bringing sufficient technical depth to evaluate modern AI architectures and technologies
- Seeing opportunities to turn emerging AI Security problems into reusable platform capabilities, product primitives, workflows, and ecosystem integrations
- Driving consequential technical and product trade-offs across security efficacy, customer experience, architecture, scalability, performance, cost, privacy, deployment models, technical debt, and time to market
- Defining measurable product outcomes spanning customer value, adoption, usage, security efficacy, product quality, operational performance, and business impact
- Influencing strategy and roadmap decisions beyond your immediate area
- Creating alignment across Engineering, Product, Design, Security Research, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, partners, and other Cisco organizations
- Serving as a senior AI Security domain leader with strategic customers, partners, ecosystem participants, and Cisco leadership
The minimum qualifications for this role are:
- Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years, Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience
- Product management experience building and managing enterprise SaaS products
- Experience owning technically complex products or significant product domains and working directly with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and/or Research teams on significant product and technical decisions
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers to understand complex problems, establish product direction, validate strategy, and drive adoption
- Experience developing multi-quarter product strategies and influencing execution across multiple teams, product areas, or organizational boundaries
The preferred qualifications for this role are:
- Experience building AI/ML, Generative AI, agentic AI, cybersecurity, cloud, developer platform, or application security products
- Demonstrated understanding of the AI ecosystem, including foundation models, open-weight models, AI applications, agents, agentic frameworks, developer platforms, AI infrastructure, and model serving
- Experience in one or more AI Security domains such as AI governance, AI supply chain security, AI validation and red teaming, runtime protection and guardrails, application security, model security, identity, policy, or behavioral security
- Strong technical fluency with APIs, SDKs, cloud architectures, distributed systems, AI/ML systems, developer workflows, integrations, and enterprise software platforms