Principal Product Manager, AI Products - Cisco Networking

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the go-to-market strategy for AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking and to aggregate intelligence across domains into a coherent product narrative that drives customer adoption and competitive differentiation. This role sits at the intersection of multiple AI product lines and networking platforms.

The underlying use cases - troubleshooting, optimization, deployment, remediation - span business units and technologies. Your job is to curate the right use cases, synthesize intelligence from across the portfolio, and take that story to market: to customers, analysts, field sales, and Cisco leadership.

- Own use case strategy: Curate and prioritize the use case portfolio across AI product lines. Decide what ships, what's deferred, and what matters to customers - not just what demos well.

- Aggregate intelligence across domains: Synthesize adoption data, customer feedback, competitive signals, and engineering capabilities into a unified view of where Cisco's AI networking products stand and where they're headed.

- Drive go-to-market: Own the GTM narrative for Cisco Networking's AI capabilities. Coordinate launches, availability programs, and customer enablement with GTM teams. Define positioning and messaging frameworks.

- Define agent taxonomy and messaging: Frame how agentic capabilities are communicated externally - categories, composition, autonomy levels. Keep messaging grounded in what's shipping.

- Bridge networking and central AI: Own the cross-BU relationship with Cisco's Central AI organization. Advocate for networking-specific requirements and ensure domain use cases are represented.

- Drive customer adoption: Engage directly with enterprise customers to validate use cases, define adoption frameworks, and shape the path from early availability to general availability.

- Build coalitions: Align stakeholders across GTM, field sales, analyst relations, CX, and engineering. Ensure the AI story is coherent across every audience.

- 10+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise/SaaS software products, ideally in networking, cloud, or monitoring.

- Strong GTM instincts - you turn technical capabilities into customer-facing stories that sell. Experience with field sales, analyst relations, and marketing.

- Experience with AI/ML technologies - large language models, agentic architectures, multi-agent systems. You know what's real vs. what's hype.

- Ability to synthesize across multiple product lines and domains into a unified narrative and prioritized roadmap.

- Excellent written and verbal communication - you can brief a Gartner analyst, a CIO, and engineering leadership in the same week.

- Experience navigating matrixed organizations and building coalitions across competing priorities.

- Strong ownership. You organize the meetings, write the first draft, and make the call.

- Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent. Advanced degree is a plus.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $225,000.00 to $325,300.00 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.