Cisco
Lead Product Manager, AI - ThousandEyes
San Francisco, California, US · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$169k-$241kDetected 3 days ago
Machine LearningNLPAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyCiscoResearchCollaboration
About the role
- This isn't a traditional enterprise PM role.
- We want someone who has built AI-native products and understands how they actually work under the hood.
Responsibilities
- Rethink the user experience from first principles -instead of bolting AI onto existing workflows, you'll help design interactions where intelligent automation is the default.
Requirements
- 8+ years in product management, with experience shipping AI-native or ML-powered products
- Strong product fundamentals-you know how to discover what matters, prioritize ruthlessly, and get things out the door
- Genuine technical depth in ML-you understand how modern models work (especially transformers), and can engage meaningfully with engineers on architecture and trade-offs
- Experience at companies building agentic AI products (Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, Cognition, etc.) is a strong plus
- Excellent communicator-can distill complex topics for different audiences and influence across teams and levels
- Bias for action
- comfortable operating with ambiguity and making calls without perfect information
- 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 starts with you.
- Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
Nice to have
- Ideally, you've spent time at companies like Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, or similar places where AI isn't a feature
- it's the product.
Compensation
- The starting salary range posted for this position is $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 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 benef
Benefits
- Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.
Company info
- Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don't own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences.
- ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco's leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.
- Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network - even the ones they don't own.
- Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues - before they impact end- user experiences.
- You'll own product strategy for key AI/ML feature areas, working closely with engineering and research to ship capabilities that make our customers' lives easier.
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