Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Collaboration

The application window is expected to close on: 07/24/2026. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Webex by Cisco is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management for AI Collaboration Experiences—an inspiring leader who will set the pace for how people and AI, and AI to AI, will collaborate today and in the future. In this pivotal role, you’ll spearhead the evolution of our vision, Connected Intelligence, harnessing AI to create smarter, more secure, and truly inclusive collaboration experiences trusted by leading organizations everywhere.

You’ll lead a world‑class team, drive bold innovation, and launch AI‑powered solutions that empower people to achieve more—together. Join us to shape how the world works, and build the collaboration technology of tomorrow, today.

This is an opportunity to mentor and lead a talented and motivated product team. Collaborate deeply with AI research teams, translate complex, opaque AI technologies into intuitive, user‑facing applications that are habit forming.

The role has tremendous growth potential and executive leadership exposure: 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 $ to $ 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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job‑related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long‑term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.…