Staff Engineering Product Manager, Analytics - Query Language & Planning (Hybrid)

Cisco•San Jose, CA

3d•$171,600 - $245,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Product Manager in the Analytics area, you will own the long-term vision and product strategy for Splunk’s SPL search language, and how internal and third-party developers build on it. You will lead cross-functional alignment to integrate SPL across products with different execution models, creating a consistent analytical experience for customers across the Splunk portfolio. You will define the query-planning model that translates user intent into execution against Splunk indexes, distributed data stores, and streaming or third-party runtimes. Establish compatibility, versioning, and migration principles that allow the language to evolve without changing the intended behavior of existing customer searches. Drive the product strategy, you will build the language roadmap from direct customer and internal client insight, connecting platform architecture to the workflows users need to complete. Influence partner teams and senior leaders through clear narratives and architecture reviews, resolving technical disagreements and driving a coherent language strategy. This is a deeply technical product role. A successful candidate can engage credibly in architecture discussions, form a clear product position when engineering teams disagree, and explain the decision to product and engineering leadership without losing the technical substance. A strong candidate for this role can independently understand a language and its execution architecture, develop a credible language product position, explain it at multiple levels, and lead its go-to-market and internal rollout across team boundaries.

Requirements

A Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years of product management experience with a highly technical platform or developer product.
Validated depth in a query language, database engine, compiler, runtime, or developer platform. Experience using SQL or a programming language is not sufficient; you should have crafted how a technical platform or language behaves and evolves.
A record of driving technical direction across boundaries, with technical customers or internal developers as a primary customer. This includes building alignment around product and architectural direction.
Outstanding verbal and written communication with both technical and executive audiences. For example: you should be able to explain an architecture decision clearly and respond to technical challenges in real time, via strategy documents and technical narratives.
Experience handling compatibility for customer-authored content or public developer interfaces, or other direct experience handling developer or customer-impacting migrations.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SPL, and the customer content built on top of it.
Experience with distributed query engines or orchestration platforms.
Background in security analytics or observability products or analytics over metrics, logs, traces, and spans.
Experience designing query interfaces for AI agents.
Natural curiosity!

Responsibilities

Own the long-term vision and product strategy for Splunk’s SPL search language, and how internal and third-party developers build on it.
Lead cross-functional alignment to integrate SPL across products with different execution models, creating a consistent analytical experience for customers across the Splunk portfolio.
Define the query-planning model that translates user intent into execution against Splunk indexes, distributed data stores, and streaming or third-party runtimes.
Establish compatibility, versioning, and migration principles that allow the language to evolve without changing the intended behavior of existing customer searches.
Build the language roadmap from direct customer and internal client insight, connecting platform architecture to the workflows users need to complete.
Influence partner teams and senior leaders through clear narratives and architecture reviews, resolving technical disagreements and driving a coherent language strategy.
Engage credibly in architecture discussions, form a clear product position when engineering teams disagree, and explain the decision to product and engineering leadership without losing the technical substance.
Independently understand a language and its execution architecture, develop a credible language product position, explain it at multiple levels, and lead its go-to-market and internal rollout across team boundaries.

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
grants of Cisco restricted stock units
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
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
annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)