Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Collaboration Experiences

Cisco is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management for AI Collaboration Experiences to lead the evolution of AI-powered collaboration tools. In this pivotal role, you’ll spearhead the vision of Connected Intelligence, drive innovation, and mentor a talented team to create smarter and more inclusive collaboration experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and direction for collaboration software applications, and establishes the product/builder culture for the next era
• Defines product and technology roadmaps for multiple product lines/multiple technologies/multiple
• Leads various executive sponsors and stakeholders through a collaborative process for development of, and alignment to, longer-term vision and strategy
• Ensures BU needs, critical business issues, market needs, and core product strategies are addressed in portfolio roadmap decisions
• Partners across the business to enable organization transformation and maturity, incorporating emerging trends and appropriate technologies
• Shapes the opinions of, and negotiates with, other senior leaders; establishes collaborative relationships across Cisco and with external parties (as required)
• Proactively extends Cisco's and portfolio's prominence and public perception

Requirements:

• Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 10 years of related experience. In the recent three to five years, product leadership experience building and scaling AI-enabled software
• Proven track record leading zero to one products or leading product transformations at scale
• Deep knowledge of AI agent architectures, including LLMs, RAG, reasoning, planning, memory, and orchestration
• Proven ability to drive product decisions with agility, metrics driven result orientation in a rapidly evolving context and market landscape
• Ability to define performance metrics and run trade-off experiments across user value, cost, and risk
• Experience translating intricate, enterprise-scale workflows into clean, reusable product patterns
• Also requires experience managing managers