Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner for the My Business Reports (MBR), Visibility and OSBO Team

This role requires a hybrid work schedule with on-site attendance at the San Jose, California campus.

Meet the Team

Our team is dedicated to transforming enterprise data into actionable insights that empower Cisco's sales and marketing organizations. As a key driver of business performance, we bridge the gap between data and decision-making, ensuring the company stays agile and competitive in a dynamic market. Comprised of diverse, highly skilled professionals who thrive on collaboration and innovation, our team's energetic and forward-thinking culture makes every day exciting. Together, we tackle complex challenges and deliver groundbreaking solutions, making a real impact across the business. If you're passionate about harnessing the power of data and technology, you'll find our team an inspiring place to grow and make a difference.

Your Impact

As a Technical Product Owner for the My Business Reports (MBR), Visibility and OSBO team, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering AI-led product strategy. Your primary focus will be to define the product vision, roadmap, and requirements, with a strong emphasis on integrating Automation and AI to enhance data insights, streamline operations, and drive significant business value. You will serve as the bridge between business needs and technical execution, ensuring that MBR evolves as an innovative, AI-powered data insights product.

• Define and drive the AI-driven product vision and strategy, using AI and automation for advanced analytics, and translating business requirements into actionable, AI-focused solutions.
• Lead MBR deliverables and collaborate with engineering to integrate AI and automation, optimize platform performance, and define operational requirements for timely, high-quality results.
• Act as the primary liaison between business partners, product management, and engineering teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on product goals and progress.
• Drive the integration and adoption of new AI and automation technologies in the MBR platform, providing product-focused input on architectural decisions to support the long-term AI strategy and vision.
• Ensure product requirements and features meet security standards and global data regulations, quality assurance for secure, reliable, and ethical AI-powered MBR solutions.
• Lead product development within an Agile framework, using Jira and other tools to track progress and manage issues, while continuously optimizing processes for greater efficiency and delivery velocity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in product management or technical product ownership, with a focus on data analytics, AI, or automation environments.
• Experience leading Agile product development, including backlogs, sprint planning, and proficiency with lifecycle tools like Jira.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into detailed product specifications, data flow concepts, and user stories.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to lead cross-functional strategy and mentor teams, using empathetic leadership to align partners on product value.
• Experience defining product roadmaps for enterprise GenAI, Agentic AI modules, or cloud-native AI frameworks (such as Snowflake Cortex AI, LangChain, or LangGraph).
• Familiarity with architecting or managing large-scale data ecosystem migrations, particularly moving legacy data warehouses to modern cloud platforms like Snowflake.
• Strong analytical approach with experience building or using executive-level dashboards (e.g., MBR/QBR metrics) to track product adoption, business value, and operational KPIs.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and emotional intelligence, with a proven ability to successfully navigate organizational ambiguity and reprioritize features within planned scopes.

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 $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.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. 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 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$168,800.00 - $277,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$148,800.00 - $248,200.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-