Splunk Product Manager - GTM (remote)

The application window is expected to close on: 08/31/2026

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a remote position that can be worked from any location within the U.S.

The Strategic Product Engagement Team is a Splunk force multiplier to drive durable Splunk and Cisco cross-portfolio growth over time. We are building an enterprise product-led growth and retention capability that converts product usage telemetry, lifecycle data, and customer insight into coordinated, proactive action in Product & Technology and partnering with Customer Experience and Sales.

Our mandate is to identify product-rooted challenges and gaps early and activating the right mitigations. Over time, we will extend the same operating model to accelerate adoption, expansion, and Splunk and Cisco cross-portfolio value. We work through a unified engagement model with shared accountability, clear decision rights, and disciplined handoffs to the teams that own the customer relationship, commercial motion, and product roadmap.

Your Impact

 As a Product Manager on the Strategic Product Engagement Team, you will be a primary product-led partner for strategic enterprise accounts globally and a vital connection between go-to-market teams and Splunk's product organization. You will combine telemetry, lifecycle context, customer feedback, and business priorities to cohort customers and identify product-led workstreams to improve customer outcomes.

You will engage directly with customers, account teams, product managers, engineering leaders, and executives. Your ability to translate complex customer needs into clear product requirements, decisions, and action plans will be essential. This role is ideal for a product leader who is equally comfortable shaping strategy, working through ambiguity, and driving disciplined execution without direct authority.

• Own the strategic product-led customer engagements. Own product-led lifecycle for a portfolio of strategic customers, aligning the level of engagement to customer value and opportunity. Actively represent the Splunk product organization to customers and their Splunk go-to-market leaders. 

• Be the command and control center to drive product-led outcomes. Be the vital connection between Splunk's product and Splunk go-to-market organizations. Serve as a trusted product partner in account planning related to product outcomes. Use telemetry data and AI summarization to drive product-led customer experience and growth workstreams.

• Translate insight into product action. Deeply understand how Splunk is used by your customer and be able to clearly articulate product opportunities and pain points to Product and Engineering partners. 

• Measure outcomes and business impact. Define and report KPIs tied to product engagement for your customer- usage, health– that informs the product organization of growth opportunities, re-platforming of existing use cases and retention risks. 

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years related experience, or PhD + 1 year related experience

• 5+ years of experience in technical product management or technical customer engagement with enterprise customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience engaging with senior leadership at enterprise customers on technical issues

• Experience being the trusted product lead to drive technical consensus on a cross functional engineering and go-to-market (sales, and customer success) team supporting complex customers. 

• Experience working with large data sets to identify technical blockers

• Knowledge of Splunk, AppDynamics, or similar platforms to drive system health and performance insights.

• AWS/GCP Cloud Architect, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), or equivalent SRE/DevOps certifications.

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 $136,500.00 to $198,500.00 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:

$154,900.00 - $259,100.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$136,500.00 - $228,300.00

* 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.