Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era. The Senior Staff Product Manager will own a significant product area within the AI Knowledge Graph, focusing on translating customer needs into a clear roadmap and driving the product lifecycle from discovery to continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Own a significant product area within the AI Knowledge Graph, translating customer needs and business priorities into a clear roadmap, product requirements, and measurable outcomes
- Define capabilities that connect telemetry, assets, topology, metadata, and business entities to power semantic search, contextual analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI workflows
- Partner with engineering and architecture to deliver graph schemas, ontology and metadata integrations, and scalable data-processing and enrichment pipelines
- Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prioritization through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement
- Measure success through customer value, adoption, quality of contextual results, platform usage, and reuse across Security, Observability, and IT experiences
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree with 11+ years of experience
- 8+ years of product management or equivalent technical product experience, including 3+ years working on enterprise data, AI/ML, search, metadata, or platform products
- Experience delivering an enterprise software or data-platform capability from customer discovery and requirements definition through launch and adoption
- Experience of knowledge graphs, graph databases, semantic models or ontologies, metadata systems, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation
- Experience defining products that use distributed data-processing technologies such as Apache Spark or comparable frameworks for large-scale ingestion, transformation, and enrichment
- Experience creating product requirements, roadmaps, data or API requirements, prioritization frameworks, and measurable success criteria in partnership with engineering teams
- Experience with technologies such as Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, RDF/OWL, GraphRAG, LangChain, vector databases, or hybrid semantic search
- Familiarity with agentic AI, Model Context Protocol, enterprise RAG systems, embedding pipelines, or federated data architectures
- Product experience in observability, cybersecurity, IT operations, machine data, or enterprise data intelligence
- Experience building platform capabilities used by multiple products, personas, or business domains across hybrid or multi-cloud environments
- Ability to lead customer discovery and align engineering, architecture, design, go-to-market, and partner teams around clear product outcomes
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
- For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
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