Director, Product Management – Threat AI Detections

Role Overview

• Define and Drive AI Detection Strategy
• Develop and execute a multi-product strategy for AI-powered threat detections and protections
• Scale Talos' proprietary AI and machine learning capabilities to stay ahead of sophisticated cyber threats and nation-state adversaries
• Identify emerging threat trends and translate them into detection and protection capabilities across Cisco's security portfolio
• Own the Product Lifecycle
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and ML detection engines and protection services
• Define and measure success through coverage, efficacy, performance, adoption, and customer outcomes
• Drive continuous innovation while balancing operational excellence and scalability
• Drive Portfolio Integration
• Lead the integration of Talos AI detections and protections across Cisco Security products and platforms
• Create a unified intelligence-first customer experience across network, cloud, endpoint, identity, and AI security solutions
• Partner across engineering, data science, product, and security teams to define common data models, telemetry requirements, and detection frameworks
• Collaborate with ecosystem partners, SIEM, SOAR, and Cisco Cloud control and Security control platforms to maximize customer value
• Lead Through Influence
• Align stakeholders around strategic priorities, technical direction, and business outcomes and drive cross-functional execution across globally distributed teams
• Establish Responsible AI Practices
• Define standards for ethical, transparent, and resilient AI security solutions to ensure AI detection models are unbiased, explainable, secure, and resistant to adversarial attacks
• Align products with global privacy, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or Masters and 8+ years of experience, or PhD and 6+ years of experience to include 4+ years of direct or indirect people leadership
• 5+ years of leadership experience in enterprise cybersecurity offerings to include threat intelligence or security centric AI/ML-based products
• Experience building and scaling security platforms, detection technologies, or threat intelligence solutions
• Experience driving large, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, data science, and business teams
• Experience with threat intelligence, detection engineering, or security operations (Preferred)
• Experience leading multi-product or platform-level strategies (Preferred)
• Familiarity with GenAI, Agentic AI, LLM security, and AI governance frameworks (Preferred)
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills (Preferred)

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Cyber Security

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
• flexible vacation time off program
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date
• up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer