Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

Position: Senior Staff Product Manager, Data Platform
The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026

Meet the Team Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full-stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination.

No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Your Impact You will be responsible for building the strategy and roadmap for Federated Search to drive the adoption of Cisco Data Fabric. You will work with internal and external application teams and customers to understand their unique requirements, translate that into an execution plan, and deliver the value. You will also play a critical role in defining facing go-to-market strategy.

You will accomplish this with your technical understanding of analytics systems, ability to ruthlessly prioritize work items, and ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers. You will merge attention to technical detail with the ability to understand and align to business imperatives while working hand-in-glove with cross-functional execution teams to drive customer insights and inputs directly into the development process.

You’ll thrive in this role if you are curious about solving complex technical problems and have strong empathy for customers. Your work will impact key Splunk growth initiatives and will be a key value driver for our top customers that use Splunk for security and observability.

Own federated search for security use cases and expanding our portfolio of supported data stores

Engage with customers (internal and external) and field teams to understand product gaps and translate them into clear priorities and roadmap

Develop product requirements, user stories, wireframes, and acceptance criteria for proposed improvements

Work with developers and architects to brainstorm solutions and define clear success criterion

Establish relationships with customers and internal and external collaborators to collect key user and customer needs and validate potential solutions

Collaborate with customers, engineering, UX, PMs, operations, marketing, and field on a regular cadence to drive go-to-market strategy

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree with 11+ years of experience6+ years of experience as Enterprise Software Product Manager Experience delivering enterprise software or data-platform capability from ground-up - customer discovery, requirements definition, launch and adoption.

Experience with large scale analytics systems such as Snowflake, Databricks or Big Query etc.

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

Preferred Qualifications Understanding of key players in security and observability market that compete with Splunk

Experience with agentic AI, Model Context Protocol, enterprise RAG systems, embedding pipelines, or federated data architectures.

Experience working with analytics tools, databases and cloud services

Experience driving alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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…