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Meet the Team

We are here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use Splunk unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an outstanding career destination and why we've won so many awards as the best place to work. You will be working in the Splunk and Cisco Cloud Control integration team. Cisco Cloud Control is the unified platform for Agentic Operations. It will provide streamlined management across all Cisco and Splunk products, AI native experiences such as AI Canvas to accelerate customers path to digital resilience and an AI-powered Studio for customers to quickly build applications that solve critical problems in their organizations.

Your Impact

As a Senior Staff Product Manager at Splunk, you will help us define, evolve and lead a strategy to enhance the Splunk products to power Agentic Operations within the Cisco Cloud Control ecosystem across the Security, Observability and the Splunk Platform.

• Establish a strategy to outline the investments required to ensure Cisco and Splunk customers can get a fabulous experience to enhance their digital resilience with Agentic Operations and streamline their IT management processes with the Cisco Cloud Control Unified Platform.

• Build a prioritized roadmap to guide engineering investments towards reaching short-, mid- and long-term goals.

• Write product requirement or PRFAQ documents to translate customer needs into actionable written materials that engineering, pricing, operations and other teams can use to work together to deliver customer value

• Define SMART metrics to ensure features and improvements deliver the right customer value

• Collect and act on relevant information from customers, analysts, competitors and other sources to streamline prioritization decisions

• Collaborate with Customers, Engineering, UX, PMs, Service Operations, Marketing, and Field on a regular cadence to align the proposed strategy

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in STEM with 11+ years of experience.

• 7+ years of product management experience shipping enterprise/SaaS software products, ideally in networking, cloud, or security.

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

• 3+ years of experience in managing large initiatives that requires building alignment across multiple business units and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

• Strong GTM instincts — you turn technical capabilities into customer-facing stories that bring customers. Experience with field sales, analyst relations, and marketing.

• Ability to synthesize across multiple product lines and domains into a unified narrative, vision, and prioritized roadmap.

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 $169,300.00 to $237,200.00 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 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

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.