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The Data Management team builds the foundational products that help customers collect, process, govern, and optimizedata across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.\nOur work powers security, observability, AI, compliance, cost optimization, and enterprise analytics use cases at globalscale. We help customers make high-volume data usable, trustworthy, and valuable before it reaches the systems and teams that depend on it.\nWe are reimagining data management with automation-first and intelligence-assisted experiences that make sophisticated workflows easier to build, operate, and trust. Joining this team means working on platform capabilities with reach across Splunk, Cisco, and some of the world’s largest enterprises.\nYour Impact\nWe’relooking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the next evolution of Splunk’s Data Pipeline Building experience. This is a high-impact role at the heart of Splunk’s transformation into Cisco’s foundational Data Fabric, where you’lldefine how customers transform raw data into actionable, well-governed streams from edge to cloud.\nYou’ll shape the API and UI building blocks that help technical users create powerful, scalable, and intuitive pipelines, whether they are filtering noisy telemetry, enriching logs with context, routing sensitive data to compliant storage, or customizing out-of-the-box templates.\nThis role is both a customer-facing product opportunity and an internal platform playfor other Splunk and Cisco product teams. Success will requiresharproadmap strategy, clear prioritization, strong stakeholder management, and a passion for solving technical user problems from 0-to-1 and 1-to-n.\nAs Senior PM, you will:\nOwn the vision and roadmap for pipeline-building capabilities that help customers create, iterate, and scale data processing workflows.\n\nDesign intuitive experiences for admins, engineers, and technical users across visual pipeline building, reusable templates, stream-time transformations, and intelligent recommendations.\n\nBring voiceof the customer into product decisions, balancing technical depth with clarity, usability, and business impact.\n\nDrive market differentiation by staying ahead of trends in edge compute, data federation, stream processing, AI-assisted workflows, and enterprise data architecture.\n\nCollaborate across Splunk and Cisco, aligning engineering, design, customer success, field, GTM, and leadership stakeholders on roadmap priorities and tradeoffs.\n\nHelp shape Splunk’s long-term data federation strategy, influencing how enterprise data is managed across clouds, regions, and environments.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s with 8+ years; or Master’sdegree with 6+ years; or PhD with 3+ years of product management experience.Degree expected to be in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.\n\n5+ years of delivering technical products in one or more of the following domains: data platforms, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, observability, security analytics, stream processing, data integration, or enterprise data management.\n\nExperience owning product strategy, roadmap, requirements, launch planning, and post-launch iteration for complex technical products used by administrators, developers, platform engineers, security teams, or other technical users.\n\nExperience partnering with engineering and design teams to deliver product capabilities involving APIs, user interfaces, data movement, data transformation, or large-scale distributed systems.\n\nExperience defining product success metrics, using customer feedback and usage data to prioritize roadmap decisions, and measuring adoption, business impact, or customer value after launch.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with data pipeline, stream processing, ETL/ELT, data lake, observability, security, or telemetry products, including technologies such as Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, Flink, S3, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with edge-to-cloud architectures, data routing, filtering, enrichment, federation, compliance-aware storage, or cost optimization use cases.\n\nProduct intuition for making powerful technical capabilities approachable through thoughtful workflows, clear abstractions, and well-designed user experiences.\n\nStrong ability to navigate ambiguous 0-to-1 and 1-to-n product areas, create clarity across teams, and turn complex customer problems into pragmatic product direction.\n\nExcellent executive and cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to align engineering, design, GTM, field, customer success, and leadership stakeholders around roadmap tradeoffs.\n\nStrong customer empathy and market judgment, adept at synthesizing customer conversations, competitive trends, field feedback, and technical constraints into differentiated product strategy.\n\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $139,200.00 to $201,400.00 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.\nU.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.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-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\n\nExempt 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)\n\n80 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\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees 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:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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