Cisco
Senior Product Manager - AI Safety and Security (Hybrid)
$179K–$329K
San Jose, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, US
Milpitas, California, US
San Francisco, California, US - Experience
- Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years, Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD; no equivalent experience alternative stated.
About the job
Own strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, and adoption for an AI Security product domain within Cisco AI Defense.
What you'll do
- Set product strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps based on customer needs, AI and security developments, competition, and market opportunities.
- Lead customer discovery and collaborate across Engineering, Design, Security Research, Architecture, and other teams to develop and deliver enterprise product capabilities.
- Define outcomes and drive product decisions, alignment, launch, adoption, and ongoing improvement across Cisco’s AI Security portfolio.
What they ask for
- Product management experience building and managing enterprise SaaS products, with end-to-end ownership from strategy and discovery through delivery, launch, and adoption.
- Experience owning technically complex products or product domains and working with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and/or Research teams on significant decisions.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers to understand complex problems, set product direction, validate strategy, and drive adoption.
- Experience developing multi-quarter product strategies and influencing execution across multiple teams, product areas, or organizational boundaries.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI/ML, Generative AI, agentic AI, cybersecurity, cloud, developer platform, or application security products.
- Understanding of AI Security domains such as AI governance, supply chain security, red teaming, runtime protection, model security, identity, policy, or behavioral security.
Pay
$194,600.00 to $285,700.00 (base salary); $194,600.00 - $328,600.00 (base salary); $179,000.00 - $294,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
foundation models, open-weight models, RAG, MCP, AI gateways, SDKs, model APIs, cloud AI platforms
AI focus
Leads product strategy and development for AI Security, assessing AI technologies and threats and translating them into enterprise security capabilities and platform opportunities.
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