Principal Product Manager, AI Products - Cisco Networking

Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the go-to-market strategy for AI-powered use cases across Cisco Networking, focusing on curating use cases and driving customer adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Own use case strategy: Curate and prioritize the use case portfolio across AI product lines. Decide what ships, what's deferred, and what matters to customers — not just what demos well
• Aggregate intelligence across domains: Synthesize adoption data, customer feedback, competitive signals, and engineering capabilities into a unified view of where Cisco's AI networking products stand and where they're headed
• Drive go-to-market: Own the GTM narrative for Cisco Networking's AI capabilities. Coordinate launches, availability programs, and customer enablement with GTM teams. Define positioning and messaging frameworks
• Shape external narrative: Author the product story for executive leadership, analyst engagements (Gartner, etc.), and customer-facing presentations. Own competitive differentiation and the Cisco Live strategy
• Define agent taxonomy and messaging: Frame how agentic capabilities are communicated externally — categories, composition, autonomy levels. Keep messaging grounded in what's shipping
• Bridge networking and central AI: Own the cross-BU relationship with Cisco's Central AI organization. Advocate for networking-specific requirements and ensure domain use cases are represented
• Drive customer adoption: Engage directly with enterprise customers to validate use cases, define adoption frameworks, and shape the path from early availability to general availability
• Build coalitions: Align stakeholders across GTM, field sales, analyst relations, CX, and engineering. Ensure the AI story is coherent across every audience

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise/SaaS software products, ideally in networking, cloud, or monitoring
• Strong GTM instincts — you turn technical capabilities into customer-facing stories that sell. Experience with field sales, analyst relations, and marketing
• Experience with AI/ML technologies — large language models, agentic architectures, multi-agent systems. You know what's real vs. what's hype
• Ability to synthesize across multiple product lines and domains into a unified narrative and prioritized roadmap
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you can brief a Gartner analyst, a CIO, and engineering leadership in the same week
• Experience navigating matrixed organizations and building coalitions across competing priorities
• Strong ownership. You organize the meetings, write the first draft, and make the call
• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or equivalent. Advanced degree is a plus