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 value. You will also play a critical role in defining go-to-market strategy. This role merges 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 directly into the development process. You’ll thrive if you are curious about solving complex technical problems and have strong empathy for customers. Your work will impact key Splunk growth initiatives and be a key value driver for top customers using Splunk for security and observability.

Application window closes: 11/19/2026

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 criteria
• 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
• Experience defining multi-year product vision and roadmaps for cloud and enterprise software, preferably in a platform environment

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

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Eligibility for grants of Cisco restricted stock units (vesting over defined periods)
• Paid time away: 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
• Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year (accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time)
• Exempt employees: flexible vacation time off program (no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
• Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles (subject to Cisco policies)

Pay

The starting salary range for this position in the U.S. and/or Canada is $194,600.00 to $285,700.00, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by 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 include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined. Employees in Illinois participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.