Meet the Team We are seeking an experienced Principal Technical Product Manager to join our AI Solutions Team. This role involves collaboration with the Hyperfabric AI team and other AI initiatives within Cisco. You will work closely with various teams, including Strategic Partners, Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Support, Sales, Strategy, Customer Experience, Finance, Legal, and Operations, to ensure customer success in both pre-sales and post-sales activities. Your Impact This pivotal role contributes to our commitment to providing timely and exceptional AI Program and Solutions delivery. Additionally you will take lead in customer and partner concerns through coordination between the Customer, CX, and Engineering when large production issues occur to ensure swift resolution as the business units’ representation. Our goal is to deliver high-value products/solutions to our customers! * Coordinate all aspects of product management for AI delivery, encompassing concept, design, production, testing, forecasting, cost, promotion support, and end-of-life, while ensuring the delivery of both product and market requirements * Understand and collaborate on the design, deployment, and development of AI workloads and infrastructure solutions by working with multi-functional teams to support high-performance AI requirements. * Responsible for the strategic management and implementation of marketing activities, including research, planning, and execution, to deliver the operating plan and achieve growth objectives such as market share, revenue, profit, and return on investment across all business channels and key customer categories * Work with executives and business line partners to define the problems to solve with AI. Develop AI product roadmaps and timelines and help prioritize and rank the solutions, develop project plan. * Develop a comprehensive governance and review cadence with customers and internal partners to ensure measurable improvements and positive customer impact, including but not limited to Quarterly Executive Reviews and Monthly Executive Meetings focused on assessing quality, delivery, and critical initiatives * Lead customer delivery engagements and/or provide partner support for large scale solutions and sophisticated issues through deep technical expertise. * Effectively engage with Engineering and other relevant teams to address problems, identify serviceability issues, and collaborate towards resolving them while understanding the product's use case and maintaining technical communication with engineering teams. Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree with 15 + years of experience, or a Master's degree with 12 +years of experience, or a PhD with 8 + years of experience in product management or engineering. * 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and using AI workloads and solutions. * Hands on experience using Nvidia and open source tools. Preferred Qualifications: * Product Management or engineering experience includes end to end knowledge of concept, design, production, testing, forecasting, cost, promotion, support, and end-of-life for Web and AI delivery. * Excellent presentation, communication, interpersonal and relationship skills * Solid understanding of both hardware and software development and product processes specific to AI. * Strong track record of building motivated, collaborative, and productive teams, including remote team members. * Ability to apply critical thinking to function effectively in ambiguous circumstances. * Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior leaders and technical and non-technical team members. \#WeAreCisco \#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all. Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. 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