Splunk, a Cisco company, helps the world’s most complex organizations turn machine data into action. The Data Management team builds the foundational products that help customers collect, process, govern, and optimize data across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.
Our work powers security, observability, AI, compliance, cost optimization, and enterprise analytics use cases at global scale. We help customers make high-volume data usable, trustworthy, and valuable before it reaches the systems and teams that depend on it.
We are reimagining data management with automation-first and intelligence-assisted experiences that make sophisticated workflows easier to build, operate, and trust. Joining this team means working on platform capabilities with reach across Splunk, Cisco, and some of the world’s largest enterprises.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the next evolution of Splunk’s Data Pipeline Building experience. This is a high-impact role at the heart of Splunk’s transformation into Cisco’s foundational Data Fabric, where you’ll define how customers transform raw data into actionable, well-governed streams from edge to cloud.
You’ll shape the API and UI building blocks that help technical users create powerful, scalable, and intuitive pipelines, whether they are filtering noisy telemetry, enriching logs with context, routing sensitive data to compliant storage, or customizing out-of-the-box templates.
This role is both a customer-facing product opportunity and an internal platform play for other Splunk and Cisco product teams. Success will require sharp roadmap strategy, clear prioritization, strong stakeholder management, and a passion for solving technical user problems from 0-to-1 and 1-to-n.
As Senior PM, you will:
Own the vision and roadmap for pipeline-building capabilities that help customers create, iterate, and scale data processing workflows.
Design intuitive experiences for admins, engineers, and technical users across visual pipeline building, reusable templates, stream-time transformations, and intelligent recommendations.
Bring voice of the customer into product decisions, balancing technical depth with clarity, usability, and business impact.
Drive market differentiation by staying ahead of trends in edge compute, data federation, stream processing, AI-assisted workflows, and enterprise data architecture.
Collaborate across Splunk and Cisco, aligning engineering, design, customer success, field, GTM, and leadership stakeholders on roadmap priorities and tradeoffs.
Help shape Splunk’s long-term data federation strategy, influencing how enterprise data is managed across clouds, regions, and environments.
Bachelor’s with 8+ years; or Master’s degree with 6+ years; or PhD with 3+ years of product management experience. Degree expected to be in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
5+ years of delivering technical products in one or more of the following domains: data platforms, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, observability, security analytics, stream processing, data integration, or enterprise data management.
Experience owning product strategy, roadmap, requirements, launch planning, and post-launch iteration for complex technical products used by administrators, developers, platform engineers, security teams, or other technical users.
Experience partnering with engineering and design teams to deliver product capabilities involving APIs, user interfaces, data movement, data transformation, or large-scale distributed systems.
Experience defining product success metrics, using customer feedback and usage data to prioritize roadmap decisions, and measuring adoption, business impact, or customer value after launch.
Experience with data pipeline, stream processing, ETL/ELT, data lake, observability, security, or telemetry products, including technologies such as Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, Flink, S3, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with edge-to-cloud architectures, data routing, filtering, enrichment, federation, compliance-aware storage, or cost optimization use cases.
Product intuition for making powerful technical capabilities approachable through thoughtful workflows, clear abstractions, and well-designed user experiences.
Strong ability to navigate ambiguous 0-to-1 and 1-to-n product areas, create clarity across teams, and turn complex customer problems into pragmatic product direction.
Excellent executive and cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to align engineering, design, GTM, field, customer success, and leadership stakeholders around roadmap tradeoffs.
Strong customer empathy and market judgment, adept at synthesizing customer conversations, competitive trends, field feedback, and technical constraints into differentiated product strategy.
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 $139,200.00 to $201,400.00 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:
$171,600.00 - $281,800.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$151,300.00 - $250,900.00* 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, plus 8 or more years of product management experience; or a master’s degree plus 6 or more years; or a PhD plus 3 or more years.
- At least 5 years of delivering technical products in data platforms, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, observability, security analytics, stream processing, data integration, or enterprise data management.
- Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, launch planning, and post-launch iteration for complex technical products used by technical users.
- Experience partnering with engineering and design teams to deliver capabilities involving APIs, user interfaces, data movement, data transformation, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience defining product success metrics and using customer feedback and usage data to prioritize roadmaps and measure adoption, business impact, or customer value.
- Experience with data pipeline, stream processing, ETL/ELT, data lake, observability, security, or telemetry products and related platforms such as Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, Flink, S3, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, or Snowflake.
- Familiarity with edge-to-cloud architectures, data routing, filtering, enrichment, federation, compliance-aware storage, or cost optimization use cases.
- Product intuition for making complex technical capabilities approachable through thoughtful workflows, clear abstractions, and well-designed user experiences.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous 0-to-1 and 1-to-n product areas, create clarity across teams, and translate complex customer problems into product direction.
- Excellent executive and cross-functional communication skills to align engineering, design, go-to-market, field, customer success, and leadership stakeholders.
- Strong customer empathy and market judgment, including the ability to synthesize customer conversations, competitive trends, field feedback, and technical constraints into product strategy.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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