Senior Product Manager

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We are seeking a visionary, highly technical Senior Product Manager to serve as the lead product strategist for our Enterprise Capabilities portfolio. You will define and implement the multi-year capability roadmap that enables our largest enterprise customers to deploy, operate, and automate Cisco networking platforms seamlessly at scale.

You will operate with a broad sphere of influence across multiple business units and engineering organizations, combining deep expertise in Cisco networking technologies (switching, routing, wireless, SD-WAN, and network operating systems) with modern API architectures and agentic AI workflows. You will use network simulation environments—specifically Cisco Modeling Language (CML)—to model, validate, and test sophisticated multi-device enterprise network topologies, ensuring that platform capabilities and APIs deliver detailed execution in real-world enterprise deployments.

Working with the Director of Product Management, you will collaborate with senior engineering and architecture teams on platform scalability, API contracts, and network virtualization. You will engage directly with CIOs and executive architects from Global 500 enterprises while partnering across business units like Catalyst, Meraki, and ThousandEyes to ensure a unified portfolio experience. Furthermore, you will empower field teams with technical enablement and work alongside designers to build intuitive, high-density visualization dashboards for enterprise operators.

Your Impact

This role is at the forefront of the multi-year strategic vision for core enterprise platform capabilities, aligning roadmaps and technical trade-offs across Cisco’s campus, branch, and cloud networking ecosystems. You will drive executive-level customer discovery and advisory councils with Global 500 infrastructure leaders to validate scalability requirements and critically important features before launch. By using deep networking mastery and Cisco Modeling Language, you will architect modern API standards and pioneer the integration of agentic AI workflows to automate network operations. Additionally, you will mentor the product management community in technical difficulty and PRD craftsmanship to elevate organizational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience

Experience with Cisco Networking Technologies—including Catalyst campus switching, routing, wireless, SD-WAN architectures, and network operating systems (IOS-XE / NX-OS).

Experience defining multi-year product visions, authoring high-impact PRDs, and leading sophisticated, cross-functional engineering initiatives from concept to market leadership.

Experience architecting modern standards for (RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, Model Context Protocol / MCP, gNMI/NETCONF, webhooks, and push telemetry).

Experience using agentic AI systems, automated workflows, and LLM-assisted methodologies to accelerate product management and software development lifecycles.

Preferred Qualifications

Executive Communication & Influence: Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to influence C-level customer executives, engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams.

Cisco Modeling Language (CML): Familiarity and practical experience with Cisco Modeling Language (CML), VIRL, GNS3, or Eve-NG for network simulation, virtual topology modeling, and automated API validation.