Engineering Product Manager, Cloud Control Studio

Role Description

This role will be remote to the San Jose, CA or Seattle, WA location.

Cisco's AI Software & Platform Group is building the platform for AI app development, first for Cisco's own teams and now, increasingly, for partners and the third-party developers building on Cisco. Cloud Control Studio is the experience on top of it: the place where anyone, from engineers to non-technical builders to AI agents, can build anything. Studio brings together App Builder for building apps and a bring-your-own coding-agent path with the docs and resources to build and manage apps your own way. We are hiring a leader to own that experience, free and paid alike.

Your Impact:

• You own how builders create in Cloud Control Studio: how someone goes from a prompt to a running, production-grade app.
• Your scope spans both the free and the paid capabilities of that experience.
• This is a senior role defined by ownership rather than task lists.
• You shape the strategy for the experience and carry accountability for where it goes.
• Studio lives or dies on craft; you own how building feels.
• You own the commercial model: which capabilities are free, which are paid, and how the two fit together.
• You own monetization and partnerships, and you carry the number the way a general manager carries theirs.
• You partner closely with the Developer Foundations team, feeding Studio's needs into the foundations roadmap.
• You will be measured on outcomes that matter: how many builders reach a shipped app and how fast, adoption across both free and paid, revenue against commit, and the health of the ecosystem building on Studio.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or an equivalent discipline, including owning a product or experience end to end with accountability for both adoption and business or revenue outcomes.
• Hands-on software engineering background.
• You have shipped production code and can earn the trust and respect of senior engineers on technical merits.
• Demonstrated experience taking a product from concept to a shipping, widely adopted state with real commercial outcomes.

Requirements

• Domain depth in AI application platforms and app builders, including prompt-to-app or agentic app-generation products.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents, and a feel for how AI is reshaping the way software gets built.
• Comfort owning a major ecosystem or model-provider relationship end to end.
• Experience unifying multiple product surfaces into one experience that feels like a single product.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the range to speak credibly to internal teams and external customers and stakeholders alike.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• 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.
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees.
• Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.