Product Manager, Cisco Silicon AI Switching

The application window is expected to close on: 03/10/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Meet the Team As a Product Manager for Cisco Silicon’s ScaleOut segment, you will drive end to end product management and market success for AI ScaleOut and frontend networking commissioned products for hyperscaler and NeoCloud customers. You will maximize adoption and return by defining silicon and software packages, feature usecase priorities, and SKUs, ensuring whole-product market readiness across silicon, and software. Your Impact You will manage the products during execution phase, maintaining a focal priorities' voice for engineering. Partnering closely with Sales and Business Units, you will lead lighthouse customer engagement, RFI/RFP execution, and market sensing, translating customer and competitive insights into actionable product and business outcomes. Drive end-to-end product management for AI ScaleOut and frontend networking products, ensuring market success and customer adoption. Define silicon and software packages, feature/use case priorities, and SKUs, ensuring whole-product readiness across silicon and software. Lead the execution phase of product management, acting as the focal point for engineering priorities and cross-functional alignment. Partner with Sales and Business Units to drive lighthouse customer engagement, RFI/RFP execution, and translate insights into actionable product and business outcomes. Own market sizing, business case development, pricing/quoting, NPI sample demand planning, silicon ramp planning, and product transitions. Drive go-to-market ramps, value propositions, competitive positioning, customer-facing collateral, and sales enablement, crafting Cisco’s ScaleOut portfolio and future innovation. Strong attention to detail with experience running execution cadence, forecasts, pricing, samples, and product transitions in fast-paced environments. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field required with 12+ years of experience in product management and go-to-market roles within networking or silicon organizations. Prior experience in networking silicon and ScaleOut architectures, including frontend networks. Experience working across silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver complete, market-ready solutions. Experience translating technical features into compelling value propositions and customer-facing messaging. Preferred Qualifications MBA or advanced degree preferred Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative silicon and networking solutions. Experience in competitive positioning and developing go-to-market strategies. Prior experience in business planning, including market sizing, forecasting, and running product transitions. Experience with Customer engagement driving design wins and RFI/RFP execution. Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $191,400.00 to $281,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for n ... (truncated, view full listing at source)