Cisco

Lead Product Manager, AI - ThousandEyes

Cisco$135K — $198K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management, focusing on AI-native or ML-powered products
  • Strong product fundamentals with capacity to prioritize and execute
  • Deep technical knowledge in ML, especially with modern models like transformers
  • Experience at companies specializing in agentic AI products is a plus
  • Excellent communicator with a knack for simplifying complex ideas
  • Ability to act decisively in ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

  • Connect product development with ML capabilities to address customer needs
  • Engage deeply with technology to understand model behaviors and predictions
  • Redesign user experiences around intelligent automation
  • Make decisive choices on product iteration and deployment
  • Facilitate the transition from research experiments to reliable production features

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage
  • Flexible vacation for exempt employees with no defined limit on usage
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided and carried forward annually
  • Paid time off for personal wellness and volunteer opportunities
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 07/30/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

About the Role

We're looking for a Lead Product Manager who is a great product manager first-and happens to have real depth in modern AI/ML. You'll own product strategy for key AI/ML feature areas, working closely with engineering and research to ship capabilities that make our customers' lives easier. This isn't a traditional enterprise PM role. We want someone who has built AI-native products and understands how they actually work under the hood. Ideally, you've spent time at companies like Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, or similar places where AI isn't a feature; it's the product. You'll bring that perspective to ThousandEyes as we build the next generation of intelligent, agentic capabilities on top of one of the richest network telemetry datasets in the world.

What You'll Do

  • Be the connective tissue between product and ML-you'll sit at the intersection of customer problems and technical possibilities, translating between what users need and what models can do.


  • Get your hands dirty with the technology-you're comfortable digging into how a model behaves, why it's making certain predictions, and what trade-offs come with different approaches.


  • Rethink the user experience from first principles-instead of bolting AI onto existing workflows, you'll help design interactions where intelligent automation is the default.


  • Make hard calls on ambiguous problems-AI product development is messy; you'll need to decide when something is good enough to ship and when it needs more iteration.


  • Bridge the gap between research and production-help the team move from promising experiments to features that work reliably at scale.


Qualifications

  • 8+ years in product management, with experience shipping AI-native or ML-powered products


  • Strong product fundamentals-you know how to discover what matters, prioritize ruthlessly, and get things out the door


  • Genuine technical depth in ML-you understand how modern models work (especially transformers), and can engage meaningfully with engineers on architecture and trade-offs


  • Experience at companies building agentic AI products (Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, Cognition, etc.) is a strong plus


  • Excellent communicator-can distill complex topics for different audiences and influence across teams and levels


  • Bias for action; comfortable operating with ambiguity and making calls without perfect information

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