Senior Staff Product Manager, AI Knowledge Graph & Intelligence

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the AI Knowledge Graph initiatives.

You will translate customer needs into a clear roadmap and define capabilities linking telemetry, assets, topology, and metadata to enable semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation across Security, Observability, and IT. You will drive the product lifecycle from discovery to adoption, partnering with engineering to deliver scalable data pipelines and ontology work.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of experience in product management or equivalent
• 8+ years of product management or equivalent technical product experience, including 3+ years working on enterprise data, AI/ML, search, metadata, or platform products
• Experience delivering an enterprise software or data-platform capability from customer discovery and requirements definition through launch and adoption
• Experience of knowledge graphs, graph databases, semantic models or ontologies, metadata systems, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation
• Experience defining products that use distributed data-processing technologies such as Apache Spark or comparable frameworks for large-scale ingestion, transformation, and enrichment

Responsibilities

• Own a significant product area within the AI Knowledge Graph, translating customer needs and business priorities into a clear roadmap, product requirements, and measurable outcomes
• Define capabilities that connect telemetry, assets, topology, metadata, and business entities to power semantic search, contextual analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI workflows
• Partner with engineering and architecture to deliver graph schemas, ontology and metadata integrations, and scalable data-processing and enrichment pipelines
• Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prioritization through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement

Skills

Product management

Enterprise data

AI/ML

Semantic search

Roadmaps & requirements

Requirement gathering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

RDF/OWL

GraphRAG

LangChain

Vector databases

Job description

The application window is expected to close on: 11/12/2026

Meet the Team

Cisco Data Fabric is building the data foundation that connects, contextualizes, and activates machine data across hybrid environments. You will join a focused, highly collaborative team of product managers, engineers, architects, and AI and data specialists working across Splunk, Security, Observability, and IT. Our products transform telemetry, metadata, topology, and enterprise context into trusted knowledge that people and AI agents can reason over and act upon. We work closely with customers and internal product teams to solve complex data challenges at enterprise scale. This is an opportunity to help build an emerging knowledge graph platform at the center of Cisco's data and AI strategy.

Your Impact

Own a significant product area within the AI Knowledge Graph, translating customer needs and business priorities into a clear roadmap, product requirements, and measurable outcomes. Define capabilities that connect telemetry, assets, topology, metadata, and business entities to power semantic search, contextual analytics, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI workflows. Partner with engineering and architecture to deliver graph schemas, ontology and metadata integrations, and scalable data-processing and enrichment pipelines. Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prioritization through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. Measure success through customer value, adoption, quality of contextual results, platform usage, and reuse across Security, Observability, and IT experiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 11+ years of experience.
• 8+ years of product management or equivalent technical product experience, including 3+ years working on enterprise data, AI/ML, search, metadata, or platform products.
• Experience delivering an enterprise software or data-platform capability from customer discovery and requirements definition through launch and adoption.
• Experience of knowledge graphs, graph databases, semantic models or ontologies, metadata systems, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience defining products that use distributed data-processing technologies such as Apache Spark or comparable frameworks for large-scale ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
• Experience creating product requirements, roadmaps, data or API requirements, prioritization frameworks, and measurable success criteria in partnership with engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies such as Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, RDF/OWL, GraphRAG, LangChain, vector databases, or hybrid semantic search.
• Familiarity with agentic AI, Model Context Protocol, enterprise RAG systems, embedding pipelines, or federated data architectures.
• Product experience in observability, cybersecurity, IT operations, machine data, or enterprise data intelligence.
• Experience building platform capabilities used by multiple products, personas, or business domains across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to lead customer discovery and align engineering, architecture, design, go-to-market, and partner teams around clear product outcomes.

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 $179,000.00 to $254,300.00 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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

$194,600.00 - $328,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$179,000.00 - $294,000.00

* 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-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.