Strategy & Planning Manager; Hybrid

This role is hybrid with a balance between onsite and remote work. Meet the Team:

As a member of the Strategy and Operation team at Splunk, you will help to develop a global business operational rhythm and drive accountability on the product delivery. You will work alongside leaders and teammates to drive sophisticated, multi-functional efforts that position the company for continued high growth. You will help frame the long-term product vision and translating it into actionable plans, working with product and engineering leaders, through market research, and strategic decision-making.

As a Strategy & Planning Manager your key responsibilities include aligning teams, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and ensuring the product aligns with business goals and customer needs. The role requires strong analytical skills to interpret data, excellent communication to present strategy, and the ability to think strategically about market positioning, pricing, and growth opportunities. The individual has a solid bent on operational excellence to make sure the processes are aligned to the overall product strategy.

You enjoy understanding Splunk products, the problems it solves for customers, analyzing data, and problems - working with teams to identify and test business hypotheses, ultimately you will improve how Splunk operates and how we work together.

If you are inspired by the opportunity to build the right strategies to take our business to the next level, evolving our capabilities and setting our customers and people up for success - then this role is for you!

• Collaborate with product leaders to develop and maintain the long-term product vision and strategy, including defining the product roadmap and translating objectives into actionable plans.
• Understand the company’s operating model and commercial objectives and create a Bottoms up SAM/SOM analysis based on Customer and market intelligence.
• Leverage industry best practices, policies, procedures, and methodologies to establish excellence and ensure objectives are met.
• Familiarity with product development processes, with the ability to understand product capabilities and tradeoffs required.
• Act as a central point of contact, working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Product Marketing, COP development, and other teams to ensure alignment and successful execution of the strategy.
• Analyze data from various sources (e.g., user surveys, analytics, focus groups) to identify patterns, draw conclusions, and support strategic recommendations.
• Analyze existing data sources
• Compose a formal set of KPIs to enable business stakeholders’ decision making.
• Work with Product marketing to help define and shape how the product is positioned in the market, including pricing and distribution strategies, and help articulate the core product story to internal and external audiences. Deep understanding of the industry, competitive landscape, and customer needs.
• Build and optimize product-focused processes to streamline workflows and enhance the overall efficiency of the product organization.

• Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in product strategy, frameworks and operations.
• Proficiency in data analysis for extracting actionable insights from complex datasets.
• Familiarity with product development processes, including understanding product capabilities and tradeoffs.
• Experience working on platform strategy, including price packaging and pricing of platform-type technologies, and a deep understanding of how platforms function.

• Master of Business Administration (MBA).
• Prior experience in management consulting.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking with a broad, long‑term view of the market and product lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for articulating complex ideas to diverse audiences.
• Experience with bottom‑up SAM/SOM analysis
• Proven ability to influence and guide cross‑functional teams towards shared business outcomes.
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