Cisco is a leading technology company revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. They are seeking an AI Solutions Product Manager to lead the delivery of AI-powered products, collaborating with various teams to translate marketing needs into actionable product roadmaps and drive measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Initiative Delivery: Lead AI initiatives from discovery through pilot, launch, and scale. Ensure structured execution with clear milestones, risk management, and success criteria
- Business Translation & Requirements Definition: Translate marketing needs into clear product requirements and use cases. Develop well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics to ensure engineering teams receive prioritized, build-ready work
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the primary AI partner to marketing domains. Build and maintain strong relationships across Marketing, Engineering, Data, and Operations to align stakeholders on priorities and trade-offs
- Value Measurement & Optimization: Define KPIs tied to business impact (e.g., pipeline, efficiency, engagement). Monitor performance post-launch and iterate on solutions based on data-driven insights to ensure continuous improvement and adoption
- Enablement: Drive adoption and value realization, ensuring that delivered capabilities are scalable, reusable, and effectively utilized across the organization
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 + years of Product Management experience: Strong foundation in product management, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, and agile delivery. Proven ability to take products from concept through launch and scale, with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes
- 2 + years of AI Expertise: Experience delivering AI/ML-powered solutions, with a practical understanding of how to apply these technologies to real-world use cases. Able to translate business needs into AI-driven opportunities and work effectively with technical teams to bring them to life
- 3+ years of Marketing Domain Acumen experience: Deep understanding of marketing processes (campaigns, content, demand gen, etc.) and the ability to identify gaps that can be solved through AI-enabled improvements
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect AI opportunities to broader business strategy, prioritize competing initiatives, and solve complex, ambiguous problems
- Data & Technical Fluency: Comfort working with data, analytics, and AI/ML concepts. Ability to partner effectively with engineering and data science teams while maintaining awareness of responsible AI considerations
- Stakeholder Influence: Strong executive communication and storytelling skills. Proven ability to influence without authority and drive alignment in a large, matrixed organization