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Principal Product Manager - Network Operating System Strategy & Routing Innovation

Cisco · Milpitas, California, US · On-site

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About Cisco

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About the role

As a key leader in our organization, you will get results across three core pillars: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 15+ years of professional experience in networking software, routing technologies, and network operating systems
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or similar STEM field
  • History of defining long-term technology strategies and successfully translating them into product roadmaps
  • Established reputation as an industry inspiring leader with a track record of participation in technical committees, patents, and/or major industry forums
  • Executive communication skills with the ability to influence customers, engineering, partners, analysts, and senior leadership
More about this role

The application window is expected to close on: 10/29/2026

The Provider Connectivity Software and Architectures product management team drives the routing software, automation portfolio and network architectures strategy and roadmap for Cisco’s service provider, cloud, and large-scale infrastructure customers.

Our mission is to lead the market towards autonomous networking with next-generation routing, automation and architectures, ensuring our infrastructure meets the extensive scale and performance demands of the AI era. By bridging ground breaking developments in silicon and optics with sophisticated routing technologies and AIOps, we design the resilient, agile network foundations vital to power critically important workloads. Guided by Cisco’s Guiding Principles, specifically our commitment to innovate together and prioritize customer success, we translate complex, long-term technical visions into tangible market leadership, ensuring our infrastructure remains the intelligent, robust engine for our customers' most ambitious digital transformations.

Our team focuses on advancing Cisco’s routing and automation portfolio, including leadership across software technologies,...

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