Senior Staff Product Manager, Data Platform

About the role

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full-stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. You will be responsible for building the strategy and roadmap for Federated Search to drive the adoption of Cisco Data Fabric. You will work with internal and external application teams and customers to understand their unique requirements, translate that into an execution plan, and deliver the value. You will also play a critical role in defining facing go-to-market strategy. You will accomplish this with your technical understanding of analytics systems, ability to ruthlessly prioritize work items, and ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers. You will merge attention to technical detail with the ability to understand and align to business imperatives while working hand-in-glove with cross-functional execution teams to drive customer insights and inputs directly into the development process. You’ll thrive in this role if you are curious about solving complex technical problems and have strong empathy for customers. Your work will impact key Splunk growth initiatives and will be a key value driver for our top customers that use Splunk for security and observability.

Responsibilities

• Own federated search for security use cases and expanding our portfolio of supported data stores
• Engage with customers (internal and external) and field teams to understand product gaps and translate them into clear priorities and roadmap
• Develop product requirements, user stories, wireframes, and acceptance criteria for proposed improvements
• Work with developers and architects to brainstorm solutions and define clear success criterion
• Establish relationships with customers and internal and external collaborators to collect key user and customer needs and validate potential solutions
• Collaborate with customers, engineering, UX, PMs, operations, marketing, and field on a regular cadence to drive go-to-market strategy

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 11+ years of experience
• 6+ years of experience as Enterprise Software Product Manager
• Experience delivering enterprise software or data-platform capability from ground-up — customer discovery, requirements definition, launch and adoption
• Experience with large scale analytics systems such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery etc.
• Experience in defining multi-year product vision and roadmaps for cloud and enterprise software preferably in a platform environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of key players in security and observability market that compete with Splunk
• Experience with agentic AI, Model Context Protocol, enterprise RAG systems, embedding pipelines, or federated data architectures
• Experience working with analytics tools, databases and cloud services
• Experience driving alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

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.

• 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
• Grants of Cisco restricted stock units (vest following continued employment for defined periods)
• 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 (no defined limit, 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
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles (subject to Cisco’s policies)

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $194,600.00 to $285,700.00 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.

• 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.

Schedule

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