Product Manager, AI Security; Hybrid

The application window is expected to close on: 11/12/2026

This is a hybrid role which requires to be onsite in our Milpitas or Seattle office a few times a week.

Designs, develops, and manages activities for a specific product or group of products or services from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. Serves as the central resource with design, process, engineering, test, quality, and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.

Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams focused on delivering new or upgrading existing products.

• Own a meaningful product domain within Cisco AI Defense end-to-end , from understanding customer and market problems through strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Shape a 12–18 month domain strategy grounded in customer problems, market dynamics, technology shifts, competitive landscape, and measurable business outcomes—not simply a collection of features or incoming requests.

• Translate strategy into a clear multi-quarter roadmap with defined outcomes, milestones, success measures, and explicit prioritization choices.

• Develop deep expertise in your domain, including the underlying customer workflows, technical architecture, ecosystem, security landscape, and emerging technologies that shape it.

• Spend meaningful time with enterprise customers, security teams, AI builders, partners, and field teams to understand problems firsthand. Identify patterns across those conversations and translate them into scalable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.

• Own 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.

• Drive technical and prioritization trade-offs across strategic investments, customer needs, product quality, technical debt, and feature velocity.

• Define measurable product outcomes and use adoption, usage, quality, customer, and business signals to determine whether the product is solving the intended problem.

• Operate with end-to-end accountability . Stay engaged beyond requirements and delivery through product readiness, documentation, enablement, launch, customer adoption, feedback, and iteration.

• Provide product and domain leadership in ambiguous and rapidly changing areas. Develop a point of view, use customer evidence and data to make decisions, openly debate trade-offs, and drive teams toward decisions and execution.

• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Design, Security Research, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, and other Cisco product teams to deliver cohesive customer outcomes.

• Look beyond your immediate roadmap to identify shared platform capabilities, reusable primitives, integrations, and experiences that make the broader AI Defense platform stronger.

• Contribute to the effectiveness of the broader Product team by sharing customer insights, challenging assumptions constructively, improving how we operate, and helping teammates succeed.

• Serve as a trusted product and domain expert with customers, partners, internal teams, and leadership, clearly communicating product strategy, priorities, technical trade-offs, and outcomes.

• 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 , with…