Staff Engineering Product Manager (Remote)
Cisco · Boulder, CO · 1 wk ago
Marketing$169k–$241k/yrFull-time
About the role
Join the Splunk Observability Cloud team as we build AI agents that help engineering and operations teams detect problems, investigate root causes, and safely remediate issues across complex cloud environments. This role is fully remote and can be performed from any location within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and roadmap for AI agents spanning detection, troubleshooting, and remediation.
- Set 12–18-month goals, milestones, and success measures aligned with customer and business needs.
- Discover high-value problems through customer interviews, product data, field feedback, market research, and competitive analysis.
- Prototype concepts with tools such as Codex, Claude, and similar AI development platforms to test workflows, gather feedback, and accelerate product decisions.
- Define requirements and evaluation methods for agent accuracy, reliability, explainability, safety, and user trust.
- Prioritize new capabilities, platform investments, customer requests, technical debt, and quality improvements.
- Partner with engineering and design teams throughout product discovery, development, launch, adoption, and improvement.
- Measure adoption and refine the product.
- Represent the product with customers, advisory councils, internal teams, and company leaders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related experience, master’s degree with 6 years of related experience, PhD with 3 years of related experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience managing technically complex products in one or more of the following areas: enterprise software, cloud computing, data platforms, infrastructure, observability, or artificial intelligence.
- Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, milestones, and measurable success criteria for software products.
- Experience conducting customer research and using qualitative and quantitative evidence to prioritize product opportunities.
- Experience partnering with engineering and design teams throughout product discovery, development, launch, adoption, and improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or managing AI-powered, generative AI, or agentic products.
- Familiarity with observability, Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, and DevOps or site reliability engineering practices.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Codex or Claude, to create prototypes, demonstrations, or proofs of concept.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, align cross-functional teams around measurable outcomes, and represent products with customers, advisory councils, internal stakeholders, and senior leaders.
Benefits
The role offers a competitive salary range of $168,800.00 to $241,200.00, subject to location and individual performance. Additional benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Up to 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- Flexible vacation time off program
- Up to 80 hours of sick time off
- Volunteer time off
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles
- Performance-based incentive pay for quota-based sales roles
Pay
$168,800.00 to $241,200.00
Schedule
Full-time, remote position