Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Collaboration Experiences

we are looking for a product leader who is equally comfortable defining and articulating the vision and fostering attention to detail in product execution. This leader will bring a passion for building products that users love and will cultivate the same in the product organization.

- 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

- 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

- 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 - Also requires experience managing managers

The starting salary range posted for this position is $284,700.00 to $390,900.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.