Director Product Management, Genai - San Jose, United States - Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Verified Company

San Jose, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Who We Are
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.

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-ToMarket 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, forwardthinking, utmost integrity, and trust as well as bringing balance to both strategic and tactical actions.
Engineering degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Growth mindset 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 cando attitude.
Strategic, critical but creative problem solver with strong business sense.
Ability to work within crossfunctional team environments.
Experience defining epics and writing user stories.
Skilled in design thinking and UX/UI methodologies.
Masters' degree or equivalent