Product Manager, AI Security (Hybrid)

You will be a Product Manager for AI Security at Cisco, working in a hybrid role that requires onsite presence in Milpitas or Seattle offices a few times a week.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Owning a meaningful product domain within Cisco AI Defense end-to-end
• Shaping a 12–18 month domain strategy grounded in customer problems, market dynamics, technology shifts, competitive landscape, and measurable business outcomes
• Translating strategy into a clear multi-quarter roadmap with defined outcomes, milestones, success measures, and explicit prioritization choices
• Developing deep expertise in your domain, including the underlying customer workflows, technical architecture, ecosystem, security landscape, and emerging technologies
• Spending meaningful time with enterprise customers, security teams, AI builders, partners, and field teams to understand problems firsthand
• Owning product discovery and requirements with sufficient technical depth to work directly with Engineering and Design on architecture, APIs, integrations, data models, workflows, and customer experiences
• Driving technical and prioritization trade-offs across strategic investments, customer needs, product quality, technical debt, and feature velocity
• Defining measurable product outcomes and using adoption, usage, quality, customer, and business signals to determine whether the product is solving the intended problem
• Operating with end-to-end accountability
• Providing product and domain leadership in ambiguous and rapidly changing areas
• Building strong partnerships across Engineering, Design, Security Research, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, and other Cisco product teams
• Looking beyond your immediate roadmap to identify shared platform capabilities, reusable primitives, integrations, and experiences that make the broader AI Defense platform stronger
• Contributing to the effectiveness of the broader Product team by sharing customer insights, challenging assumptions constructively, improving how we operate, and helping teammates succeed
• Serving as a trusted product and domain expert with customers, partners, internal teams, and leadership

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of Product Management experience, Master’s degree with 6 years of Product Management experience, or PhD with 3 years of Product Management experience
• Product management experience building and managing enterprise SaaS products
• Experience with 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 directly with enterprise customers to understand problems, validate requirements, and inform product decisions

The preferred qualifications for this role are:

• Experience building AI/ML, Generative AI, or agentic AI products
• Demonstrated ability to develop product strategy from customer and market problems
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work directly 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 demonstrated ability to make prioritization decisions under ambiguity
• Track record of taking ownership beyond product definition,driving execution, launch readiness, adoption, measurement, and iteration
• Ability to influence and create alignment across Engineering, Design, go-to-market teams, leadership, and other product organizations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Curiosity about AI and security, willingness to learn rapidly, and comfort operating in a market where customer needs, technologies, competitors, and security risks are evolving quickly
• Collaborative working style with a bias toward action, accountability, customer outcomes, high-quality execution, and raising the effectiveness of the broader team

The starting salary range for this position is $171,600.00 to $245,000.00.