# Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,100.00 to $196,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's AI Platform Group to accelerate the delivery of groundbreaking generative AI and cloud-native SaaS solutions. Our team drives Cloud Control,Cisco's top-priority enterprise platform integrating our networking, security, and observability portfolio with modern AI.

**Your Impact**

- Own the day-to-day delivery of defined cloud-native SaaS and generative AI workstreams from initial technical planning through production launch.

- Translate product requirements and architectural plans into clear work breakdown structures, milestones, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

- Coordinate cross-functional contributors across Product Management, Core Software Engineering, Applied AI/ML, Data Platforms, Infrastructure, and Security.

- Proactively track critical paths, surface delivery risks early, resolve routine operational blockers, and escalate architectural or resourcing trade-offs with clear context.

- Support release readiness, testing, deployment validation, and operational handoffs, tracking reliability and monitoring requirements alongside engineering teams.

- Foster strong execution hygiene by applying fit-for-purpose Agile practices, facilitating sprint rituals, and contributing to shared delivery templates.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, plus 2+ years of experience in technical program management, software delivery, or software engineering.

- Applied experience coordinating cross-functional software, cloud SaaS, data, or AI projects through a production release or major milestone.

- Demonstrated ability to build project schedules, track dependencies, manage critical paths, and resolve operational blockers using Jira or equivalent tooling.

- Foundational understanding of modern software development lifecycles, Agile practices, cloud services, and APIs to collaborate effectively with technical teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms or cloud-native microservices environments.

- Familiarity with Generative AI concepts, LLM integration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, or AI evaluation harnesses.

- Educational background from a top-tier engineering institution or demonstrated AI internship / capstone project experience.

- Experience supporting API integrations, data platform pipelines, security compliance, or operational readiness reviews.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- Cloud-native SaaS
- Generative AI
- Agile practices
- Jira
- Software development lifecycles

### Nice to have
- Enterprise SaaS platforms
- Generative AI concepts
- LLM integration
- API integrations

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