Engineering Product Manager

The application window is expected to close on: 06/15/2026

** Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received** .

** Meet the Team*
* The AI Software and Platform Group is building the developer platform that powers the next generation of Cisco's products and the partner ecosystem around them. The platform spans unified management, artificial intelligence, and unified identity, and is used by Cisco engineering teams across the company as well as by third-party partners and developers building on top of Cisco.

The Developer Experience team owns how those developers find the platform, learn it, build on it, ship to it, and stay successful on it. We are a small, high-velocity, hands-on group with the energy of an early-stage company operating at enterprise scale. We care about voluntary adoption, low time-to-first-success, and making the everyday experience of building on the platform feel obvious and good.

** Your Impact*
* As Technical Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will partner with the Dev Ex Tech Lead to own the strategy and execution of the developer experience for the platform. Your customers are both Cisco's internal engineering teams and the third-party developers and partners who build on top of Cisco. This is a Technical, hands-on builder PM role. You will write specs, work with data, ship documentation, prototype with code and AI agents, and partner directly with engineers.

The right person thrives on autonomy and ambiguity and treats the platform as both a product to shape and a system to help build alongside the engineers on the team.

Specifically, you will:

+ Own the developer engagement program: how developers discover the platform, get answers, move from first prototype to production, and grow into long-term adopters and advocates

+ Lead the developer-facing surface area of the platform: documentation, getting-started flows, sample applications, communications, and the visibility tools that keep developers informed and unblocked

+ Run developer engagement rituals (office hours, async support, partner working sessions) and turn what you learn into product requirements, golden paths, and reusable patterns that benefit every team building on the platform

+ Define and instrument the developer experience metrics that matter: time-to-first-success, activation, adoption, satisfaction, and retention

+ Use agentic coding tools as a regular part of how you ship work, including prototypes, specs, scripts, dashboards, and developer content

+ Partner with adjacent platform service teams (identity, unified management, artificial intelligence, and beyond) to remove friction at the seams between services

+ Communicate progress, risk, and decisions to senior leadership and to the developer community in writing and in working demos

** Minimum Qualifications*
* + 5+ years of combined experience across software product management and software engineering, with at least 2 years in a product management or technical product management role

+ Has shipped production code as a software engineer in a prior role

+ Code fluency in at least one mainstream language (Python, Type Script, Go, Java, or equivalent)

+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + Background in developer experience, platforms, tools, or platform engineering, with familiarity in platform engineering concepts such as golden paths, internal developer portals, paved paths, and self-service infrastructure.

+ Hands-on fluency with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) regularly used in shipping work.

+ Experience in API design, SDK design, developer documentation strategy, and building third-party developer ecosystems and partner enablement.

+ Proven track record driving platform adoption through demonstrated value rather than mandate, including working with internal developers in large enterprises with platform choice.

+ Strong writing skills for engineering and senior leadership audiences, and experience instrumenting developer success metrics in production to guide roadmap decisions.

** Why Cisco?*
* At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power…