Cisco is looking to build Agent Studio, a platform for building and orchestrating AI agents at scale, and is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead this effort.
Requirements
- A technical background or degree is preferred, especially related to AI.
- Desirable to have deep expertise and experience with building Agentic systems
- Proven experience building zero-to-one products using design thinking, lean startup, or rapid prototyping.
- Strong conceptual thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to stay ahead of fast paced AI trends and translate them into product opportunities.
- A willingness to challenge assumptions and solicit different perspectives
- Ability to evaluate alternatives qualitatively and quantitatively and make compelling recommendations based on confirmed case analysis.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-value customer and partner engagements to shape roadmap priorities and validate product decisions.
- Collaborate across Cisco business units and external partners to align technologies and deliver cross-domain solutions.
- Partner with Engineering, ML Scientists, Designers, and Product Marketing to build and deliver innovative Agentic Ops features - applying AI agents to automate cross-domain workflows
- Validate and refine Agentic Ops features through user interviews, quantitative research, and ongoing customer engagement.
- Build a differentiated AI roadmap, using LLM Ops, orchestration frameworks, evaluations, safety/guardrails
- Represent Cisco externally in conferences, standards groups, and industry forums to establish thought leadership.
- Mentor and develop Product Managers, encouraging a strong and high-performing product management community.
Other
- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience
- Ability to collaborate with various cross-functional teams at Cisco and external collaborators
- Ability to work with compassion to make really big things happen on a global scale
- Access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
- Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday.
