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Role Summary

As the Director of Product Compliance within Splunk’s Products and Technology organization, you will lead an experienced team of product compliance product managers to build and scale a compliance-first approach across Splunk’s product portfolio. Reporting to senior leadership, you’ll define the strategic direction of product compliance, ensuring our products and services meet global regulatory requirements while accelerating secure and compliant product delivery!
This is a pivotal leadership role that requires a deep understanding of the evolving global compliance landscape, a strong technical foundation, and proven experience in leading teams to embed compliance into the software development lifecycle. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, Security, and Sales teams to drive compliance maturity and position Splunk as a trusted technology partner in both the commercial and public sectors!

What You'll Get to Do

  • Lead and grow a team of product compliance product managers, setting priorities, fostering development, and driving high-impact outcomes across multiple workstreams.
  • Set the strategic vision for product compliance, aligning with company goals and ensuring scalable, repeatable processes for compliance across the product lifecycle.
  • Shape cross-functional compliance strategy across engineering, product, and legal teams to proactively balance compliance requirements with speed-to-market.
  • Lead all aspects of the development and execution of product compliance roadmaps to meet and maintain global industry certifications and regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, ISMAP, IRAP).
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive partners on emerging compliance risks and strategic trade-offs.
  • Guide the development and implementation of processes, tools, and automation to support compliance-by-design.
  • Represent Splunk as a leader with a point of view in customer, partner, and regulator-facing engagements related to product and data compliance.
  • Stay abreast of global regulatory trends and translate them into actionable insights and requirements for product teams.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in product compliance and regulatory frameworks, including 5+ years in a leadership or people management capacity.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing compliance programs in a fast-paced, agile product development environment.
  • Deep knowledge of compliance and certification requirements for global security and data compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, ISMAP, IRAP).
  • Strong executive communication and partner leadership skills with the ability to influence across technical and business teams.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and making strategic decisions in sophisticated global regulatory environments.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC) strongly preferred.

Meet the Products and Technology Team

Want to build security and observability products people love AND work with people as smart (and humble) as you are? Our products and technology team delivers digital resilience at enterprise scale with a self-service Splunk portfolio that offers unified security analytics, full stack observability and real-time visibility of streaming data. Learn more about the team, meet our leaders, and hear from Splunk technologists and engineers at splunk.com/careers/products-and-technology.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Splunk's Hiring Practices

Splunk turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.

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