Principal Product Management Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $225k - $325.3k / year

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the strategy for internal engineering platforms and AI-driven productivity tools, ensuring alignment with broader business outcomes. • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for developer productivity (CI/CD, build tooling, test infrastructure) and AI integrations (agentic assistants, model context protocols), balancing technical risks and business trade-offs. • Partner with engineering leads and platform teams to align priorities, unblock delivery, and translate user feedback into actionable, measurable requirements. • Lead the strategic direction for AI tooling, including build-vs-buy analysis, migration planning, and the creation of a skills/prompts marketplace to enable repeatable workflows. • Monitor engineering productivity and sentiment using DORA metrics and surveys to identify gaps and drive continuous improvement. • Represent Cisco in high-value forums and evangelize product vision across business units, sales teams, and the broader industry. • Foster an innovation culture through hackathons, conduct user research to improve UX, and manage clear communication regarding product roadmaps, feature releases, and deprecations. • Serve as a leader within the Product Management community, providing deep technical insight and shaping organizational strategy across portfolios.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience. • Consistent track record delivering technical products within cloud platforms, SaaS, or infrastructure domains. • Demonstrated success in managing the full product lifecycle (definition, build, release, and iteration) for complex, distributed systems. • Consistent track record of driving delivery across engineering, operations, and business partners for large-scale platforms. • Proficiency in defining and tracking product metrics to advise prioritization and demonstrate business impact. • Familiarity with tools like GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex).

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 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 • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year • flexible vacation time off program • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • 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