Engineering Product Manager, Developer Foundations

Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. They are seeking an Engineering Product Manager for Developer Foundations to lead the strategy and ownership of core services and building blocks that support AI app development, ensuring reliability and ease of use for developers.

Responsibilities:

• You own Developer Foundations: the shared layer the rest of Cisco builds on
• You set the direction for that layer and own its outcomes
• You treat the foundations as a product with real customers
• Your job is to make the building blocks reliable, coherent, and easy to build on, so the experiences above them move fast without fighting the substrate
• You own how they build on it: the public-facing APIs and SDK, and the integration and governance model that lets outside developers build on Cisco safely
• You will be measured on outcomes that matter: reliability and performance, how quickly teams can build on the foundations, SDK and API adoption, and how little friction the experiences above you hit

Requirements:

• 8+ years in product management or an equivalent discipline, including owning a platform or infrastructure area end to end with accountability for its outcomes
• Hands-on software engineering background. You have shipped production code and can earn the trust and respect of senior engineers on technical merits
• Fluency with AI coding agents. You use them in your own work and understand how AI agents build on platforms and APIs, because they are fast becoming the developer you build for
• Platform depth: hosting and runtimes, service APIs, SDK design, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and integrating with identity and OAuth systems
• Platform as a product: experience owning APIs, SDKs, or platform services that other teams build on
• Internal-customer mindset: experience treating an internal platform as a product with internal customers and clear contracts while operating in large, matrixed enterprises where many teams depend on the same foundations
• External surface: exposing a platform externally through public APIs, SDKs, and partner integration and governance
• Communication: excellent written and verbal communication, with the range to speak credibly to internal teams and external customers and stakeholders alike