Engineering Product Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc.•Seattle, WA

24d

About The Position

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. Job Summary: As a Principal Product Manager for Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), you will define and deliver the core SIEM capabilities that security teams depend on to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. You will serve as a technical leader and customer advocate, driving the product roadmap through deep engagement with practitioners, detection engineers, and security leaders across industries. This role requires a blend of technical depth, domain expertise, and a passion for working directly with customers. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, UX, threat research, and field teams to bring customer-driven features to life and ensure Splunk ES continues to lead the SIEM market.

Requirements

Security Operations Expertise: Proven experience in security operations, with a deep understanding of threat detection, incident response, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems.
Proven Product Management Experience: Extensive experience in product management roles, preferably within the cybersecurity domain, demonstrating a track record of successful execution to bring security products to market.
Strong Customer Orientation: Skilled at working directly with technical customers, understanding their environment, and translating needs into actionable requirements.
Excellent Communication Skills: Able to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences - from detection engineers and architects to executive partners.
Execution and Ownership: Strong organizational skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Splunk platform capabilities (e.g., Search Processing Language, data onboarding, dashboards, data models) and technical expertise around Splunk Security portfolio (e.g., Enterprise Security, SOAR, SAA, TIM, UBA).

Responsibilities

Technical Product Leadership: Lead the design and delivery of sophisticated SIEM capabilities - including triage and investigation workflow, and automation and response integrations.
Customer Engagement: Act as the voice of the customer by engaging directly with enterprise security teams to understand operational workflows, sophisticated SOCs, and investigation/response challenges. Build long-term relationships with power users, security architects, and CISOs.
End-to-End Use Case Ownership: Drive analyst-centric workflows for threat detection, triage, investigation, and response. Ensure seamless integration across the Splunk security portfolio, including SOAR, SAA, and AI/ML features.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering and UX on technical design and delivery. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to ensure alignment on messaging, enablement, and customer adoption.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Use telemetry, usage analytics, and feedback loops to prioritize investments and measure success.
Competitive & Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of market trends, customer needs, and competitor moves. Translate those insights into product opportunities and strategic differentiators.
Evangelism and Thought Leadership: Represent Splunk at customer briefings, webinars, industry events, and threat research discussions. Champion customer use cases and influence internal partners with real-world context.

Benefits

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.
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.