Engineering Product Manager (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Engineering Product Manager will shape Splunk AppDynamics capabilities as part of Cisco’s Splunk Observability team. Splunk AppDynamics provides application performance monitoring and full-stack observability linked to business outcomes, helping organizations understand, optimize, and protect applications across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments. The role owns product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for capabilities spanning application performance, infrastructure, digital experience, business analytics, and AI-powered observability. It combines customer insight, technical understanding, and commercial judgment to help enterprises improve application performance, accelerate troubleshooting, and strengthen digital resilience. The position works with engineering, design, sales, marketing, architecture, program management, partners, and customer-facing teams, and advances integrations across Splunk AppDynamics, the Splunk platform, Splunk Observability Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, and relevant Cisco technologies. This is a hybrid role requiring one day per week at Cisco’s San Jose or San Francisco office.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of product management experience delivering technical infrastructure, cloud services, or enterprise SaaS solutions.
- At least 3 years of end-to-end experience shipping substantial features or products from concept to launch.
- Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, public-cloud platforms, enterprise Java/.NET, SAP, databases, and hybrid application architectures.
- Experience with enterprise applications, distributed systems, hybrid-cloud environments, and modern software development and operations practices.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with APM, infrastructure monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log analytics, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, AIOps, or application security.
- Experience building AI/ML-powered analytics, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, or monitoring capabilities for generative-AI and LLM applications.
- Experience with enterprise pricing, packaging, licensing, product launches, or global go-to-market organizations.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, customer-facing, and go-to-market teams.
- Familiarity with observability, cloud-native development, or adjacent domains such as cloud platforms and microservices.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive product vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Splunk AppDynamics capabilities across application performance, infrastructure, digital experience, business analytics, and AI-powered observability.
- Engage enterprise customers, partners, and go-to-market teams to identify unmet needs, assess market opportunities, and translate insights into prioritized product requirements.
- Partner with engineering, design, architecture, and program management to deliver scalable, secure, and intuitive products from discovery through launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Advance integrated experiences across Splunk AppDynamics, the Splunk platform, Splunk Observability Cloud, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, and relevant Cisco technologies.
- Support product positioning, field enablement, strategic customer briefings, and industry engagement.
- Monitor competitive and technology trends across observability, AIOps, OpenTelemetry, and generative AI.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, subject to plan eligibility rules.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants, which vest following continued employment for defined periods.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus one floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- One paid day off for an employee’s birthday, a paid year-end holiday shutdown, and four paid personal wellness days.
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
- Exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations.
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family-member issues.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year.
- For non-sales roles, eligibility to earn annual bonuses, subject to Cisco policies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
