Director Product Management, GenAI
Company: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
Outshift by Cisco is the emerging tech incubation group that
explores, identifies, and creates new businesses for Cisco. We are
passionate about being at the cutting edge of technology, taking
Cisco into new markets and building exciting products that solve
tomorrow's biggest challenges. Like a startup, we take an
entrepreneurial approach to success. We incubate ideas into
products that solve critical needs, then deliver an experience that
delights users and customers from Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to
full-blown commercial offering. Outshift is about innovation. We
look from 12 months out to five years into the future, flexibly
working to solve problems instead of fitting into a defined job
description. We celebrate learning, and expect our teams to move
fast, challenging assumptions and finding new ways of solving
problems. Outshifters enjoy gaining experience across a breadth of
technological and business challenges and can expect to shift
across products/problems and build new skills regularly. We're
building the next wave of startup-like innovation with the support
of a trusted name like Cisco. Where else will you get to do this?
Come create with us. Learn more about us at outshift.com. What
You'll Do As Director of Product Management, you have a strong mix
of product management, technology, people leadership, and GenAI
domain competence, coupled with strategic vision and proven
execution. You will mentor senior product managers towards new
incubation efforts in alignment to current and future AI based
product offerings. You will define and lead overall AI/ML product
strategy and roadmap and understand industry trends and competitive
landscape relating to overall AI domain. Who You'll Work With The
Outshift team is highly visible within Cisco as it's leading the
future innovation for the business. As part of the Strategy &
Incubations group led by Cisco's Chief Strategy Officer, you'll be
working with some of the organization's most forward problem
solvers. In this role, you can expect to:
- Work with customers to understand problems, priorities, and
common themes.
- Work with leadership team to devise business strategy and
investment roadmap.
- Brainstorm and review ideas, proposals, and strategy with other
Cisco businesses, corporate development, and strategy teams.
- Lead a team of high caliber product managers to drive fast
paced and high bar delivery of product management artifacts.
- Work with engineering, design, machine learning (ML)
scientists, and program operations to define and implement the
product plan.
- Work with marketing, growth, and business development teams to
develop and execute effective Go-To-Market strategies for your
product. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with engineering, design, and operations in defining an
operating model for driving the product roadmap including defining
Agile Framework for execution, resource planning, funding,
prioritization, and phased approach of business commit to drive,
project/product development.
- Conducting market feasibility & readiness, assessment, industry
research, Tracking VC & startup community in addition to following
what large innovative companies are doing in the AI space.
- Articulating Total Addressable Market (TAM) we can target after
analyzing user problems in the target market.
- Taking complete ownership for the product market fit and
delivery of business goals and key results.
- Defining the criteria for ideal customer for Minimal Viable
Product (MVP) and actively participate in defining GTM, working
with key partners.
- Setting up the right business model for your product areas
including forecast, financial health, pricing, and resourcing.
- Establishing milestones & metrics to evaluate the success and
failure of the project.
- Developing and growing the product managers on the team.
- Building thought leadership narratives for Outshift across
product, technology, and process innovations. Who You Are You have
a passion for thinking big, taking ownership, solving hard
problems, and persevering through challenges. You have strong
social skills, sound judgment, and a capacity for critical thinking
and collaborative decision-making. You approach your work with
integrity, and empathy for your customers and your partners. You
have a successful track record in driving business results,
creating innovative products, leading product teams, and developing
business strategy proposals. Minimum Qualifications
- Demonstrable progressive experience in product management with
technical products.
- Demonstrable supervisory and people management experience.
- Demonstrable experience in building products with Generative
and Predictive AI technologies.
- Deep understanding of the emerging trends in Generative
AI.
- This role requires strong independent judgment skills,
forward-thinking, utmost integrity, and trust as well as bringing
balance to both strategic and tactical actions.
- Engineering degree or equivalent experience. Preferred
Qualifications
- Growth mind-set of diving into new areas and quickly developing
a strong point of view.
- Expertise in building decision frameworks that help make
objective investment calls.
- Mastery in building quick credibility with customers and
partners on complex topics.
- Problem solving approach and a can-do attitude.
- Strategic, critical but creative problem solver with strong
business sense.
- Ability to work within cross-functional team environments.
- Experience defining epics and writing user stories.
- Skilled in design thinking and UX/UI methodologies.
- Masters' degree or equivalent experience strongly preferred.
Why Cisco? #WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we
bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative
technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone.
How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you! Nearly
every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the
Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling
at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not
what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're
helping those who work in the health service to connect with
patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to
teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping
businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees
and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the
digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of
the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise. We tackle whatever
challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize
our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support
one another - from big and small things in life to big career
moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each
year to do just that). We know that powering an inclusive future
starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to
equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities,
that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are
leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening,
caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable
with a collective effort to make this world a better place either
with technology, or through our actions. So, you have colorful
hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots?
That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for
technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
#WeAreCisco. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.
and/or Canada:
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects
the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S.
and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For
non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only;
employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring
ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation
target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring
location and additional factors, including but not limited to
skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or
training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range
based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can
share more details about compensation for the role in your location
during the hiring process.U.S. employees have access to quality
medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco
matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage,
basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees
receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which
includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday.
Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and
have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency
issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid
time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are
also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock
Purchase Program.Employees on sales plans earn performance-based
incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between
quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay,
Cisco typically pays as follows:.75% of incentive target for each
1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;1.5% of incentive
target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;1% of
incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%;
and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are
at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive
compensation.For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as
strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target.
Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance
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