Engineering Product Manager - Observability AI (USA, Remote)
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Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of multiple observability products within a portfolio, driving innovation in AI-powered monitoring, troubleshooting, remediation, and incident response.
- Shape the product portfolio strategy over a 12-18 month horizon, with clear milestones focused on enhancing observability capabilities such as AI-driven root cause analysis, anomaly detection, alert correlation, and remediation
- Develop multi-quarter product roadmaps that align market needs, AI observability trends, AI evaluation quality standards, and business strategy.
- Serve as a product and domain expert with deep technical knowledge of modern workloads, observability telemetry, AI-driven analytics, and AI evaluation methodologies including groundedness, hallucination detection, task success, and agent collaboration.
- Provide input into competitive analysis and market validation for AI observability
- Solicit and incorporate customer feedback from diverse channels to continuously improve observability features, AI evaluation quality, and user experience.
- Create alignment between product teams, stakeholders, and leadership to strengthen AI observability product lines and drive adoption.
- Act as a product spokesperson internally and externally, evangelizing observability innovations, and benefits.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of related experience, or Master's degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 3 years in product management or related fields.
- Experience with AI technologies, observability platforms, monitoring solutions, and AI evaluation frameworks is highly desirable.
- Expertise in building AI agentic systems, observability data analytics, and AI evaluation metrics such as groundedness, reliability, task completion, and agent teamwork.
- Familiarity with AI security, compliance, telemetry standards, and AI quality management tools.
- Strong cross-functional teamwork skills with engineering, data science, and customer success teams.
- Why Cisco?
- 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 $168,800.00 to $241,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
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Additional Information
The application window is expected to close on: 07/12/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received . Engineering Product Manager - Observability AI As a Product Manager in the AI Pathways team, you won't just be adding a chatbot to a dashboard. You will be responsible for building "agentic" systems -AI that doesn't just surface data but understands context, suggests remediations, and automates sophisticated workflows. You will define how humans and AI co-pilot the world's most critical digital infrastructures!
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