Product Manager - Splunk Platform Incubation

Cisco•Seattle, WA

1d•$148,800 - $277,400

About The Position

The Splunk Platform Incubation team is an internal startup within Cisco focused on exploring, validating, and accelerating big-bet ideas across Splunk, AI, cloud, security, networking, and observability. We work at the front edge of what Splunk can become next, identifying emerging customer needs and turning ambiguous opportunities into validated concepts that can scale into future offerings. The team is small, senior, fast paced, and highly collaborative, with a startup mentality and close partnership across Splunk and Cisco engineering, platform, cloud, and AI teams. Our work helps shape the future of the Splunk platform by reducing uncertainty around high-potential ideas before they move into core product teams. This is an opportunity to help define new product categories and bring Cisco’s reach together with Splunk’s machine data platform and AI capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
8+ years of product management experience in enterprise B2B software, cloud platforms, data platforms, security, observability, networking, or AI/ML products.
Experience leading 0-to-1 product development, incubation, innovation, or early-stage product discovery for technical software products.
Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, success metrics, and business cases for technical products or platforms.
Experience working directly with engineering teams on cloud-native software, distributed systems, platform capabilities, or AI/ML-enabled product experiences.
Experience conducting customer discovery, validating product hypotheses, and using qualitative or quantitative evidence to inform product decisions.

Nice To Haves

Experience with rapid development for forward looking demos and prototypes.
Familiarity with modern AI/LLM capabilities, agentic experiences, AI-assisted workflows, or AI-enabled product design.
Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments by defining clear problem statements, hypotheses, milestones, and decision points.
Strong technical depth with the ability to earn credibility with senior engineers and architects while translating complexity for executives, customers, and partners.
Excellent communication and influencing skills across product, engineering, design, go-to-market, senior leadership, and cross-business-unit partners.

Responsibilities

Lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more high-risk, high-reward incubation bets on the Splunk Platform.
Define customer problems, hypotheses, success criteria, and experiment plans to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear, evidence-backed product concepts.
Partner with a dedicated engineering team and cross-functional partners across Splunk and Cisco to prototype, validate, and iterate on new product experiences.
Drive discovery, design, customer validation, and business case development to determine whether concepts should move forward into productization.
Deliver validated concepts with evidence of customer value, early product-market fit signals, strategic impact, and a realistic path for transition to core product or platform teams.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
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
flexible vacation time off program (for exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)