Director, Product Management

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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

At Splunk, we are on a mission to redefine the future of machine data, making it accessible, usable, and valuable for businesses to drive critical operational decisions in the AI era. Our people are passionate, innovative, and customer-focused, dedicated to building modern solutions that empower organizations worldwide. We believe in collaboration, impact, and having fun along the way. At Splunk, your work matters, not just for the company, but for the customers and communities we serve. Be part of something transformative. Explore careers at Splunk and shape the future of AI-powered data with us!

About the Role:

We are seeking a bold, strategic Senior Director of Product to play a critical leadership role to lead the Native AI pillar within Cisco Data Fabric portfolio. In this role, you will be responsible for the product strategy and execution for AI-native platform capabilities that power next-generation Agentic workflows, real-time decisioning, and autonomous operations across Security, Observability, and beyond, rooted in machine data.

This role is highly cross-functional. You will collaborate across Data Management, Federated Search & Analytics, Machine Data Lake, User Experience, and other Splunk BUs to build a seamless, end-to-end AI experience to enable Agentic workflows in Machine Data Fabric. It requires a unique combination of platform-first product leadership, reasonable AI/ML proficiency, and strong execution with engineering, design, and GTM teams to shape the future of AI at Splunk platform, and in the enterprise at large.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the strategy and execution of AI-native pillar within Splunk’s Machine Data Fabric, make it into a foundation for building scalable, secure, and composable AI solutions powered by machine data.

• Define and deliver critical platform AI services including model service integrations, real-time graph analytics, workflow orchestration, knowledge enrichment, and AI-ready data pipelines, to support both Splunk and partner ecosystems.

• Drive the product roadmap for Agentic workflows, enabling AI agents to reason, act, and learn autonomously across domains using MELT data, platform signals, and operational knowledge graphs.

• Partner with Security, Observability, and GTM solution teams to ensure AI-native capabilities are modular, extensible, and interoperable, supporting a broad range of AI-powered and AI-augmented use cases across the platform, driving measurable business impact like reduced MTTR and enhanced digital resilience.

• Partner with Splunk central AI team employing external LLMs, agent frameworks, and partner models, ensuring secure, scalable, and responsible interoperability via APIs, SDKs, MCP, and beyond, fostering collaboration with key partners.

• Define the roadmap for AI-enabled developer experiences for both internal and external builders, from schema abstraction and model routing to semantic query interfaces and Agentic APIs.

• Champion human-AI collaboration principles, driving clarity, governance, and trust in AI-assisted decision-making and autonomous workflows.

• Contribute to shaping the vision for Splunk’s AI ecosystem and marketplace, enabling a growing community of teams, partners, and customers to build AI-native solutions with machine data and operational intelligence at the core.

• Engage directly with strategic customers, analysts, and design partners to validate platform direction, incubate capabilities, and ensure measurable business impact, contributing directly to revenue growth and market differentiation.

What We’re Looking For:

• 15+ years of product management experience, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role driving AI, data, or platform products at scale end to end with significant business impact.

• Experience leading platform product teams with exposure to data lake/lakehouse, workflow orchestration, and operational intelligence.

• Understanding of AI/ML productization, including experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, or ML observability.

• Strong technical product management intuition with a proven track record of delivery; you can go deep with engineers and translate complexity with clear business value.

• Excellent communication skills, connecting technical solutions driven by customer value and use cases, able to encourage internal teams and external partners alike.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or integrating with Agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI Functions, ReAct, self-healing systems).

• Familiarity with security, observability, or federated data architectures is a plus.

Why Splunk?

Join us in redefining the operational future of AI-powered enterprises. As a leader within Splunk’s platform product organization, you will compose how the world’s most critical organizations make their data not just actionable, but Agentic. This role is pivotal to delivering measurable business outcomes, improving customer experience, and sustaining Splunk’s competitive advantage in the AI-powered data platform market by unlocking human potential and innovation with confidence.

Location:

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) / Remote (US)

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

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 $280,100.00 to $384,800.00 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:

$280,100.00 - $442,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$267,600.00 - $390,300.00

* 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.