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Engineering

Senior Product Manager (Bay Area)

  • - Hybrid Remote
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.

Job Description

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead our observability platform for monitoring and troubleshooting experience. In this role, you will be responsible for the strategy, innovation roadmap, and growth of some of our most critical product areas, and working closely with the engineering, design, and GTM teams.
Have a track record of building and delivering data-driven SaaS products and has deep domain expertise in observability solutions, DevOps, and/or cloud infrastructure.

Location: San Jose, CA or Remote - US

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.

What you'll get to do

  • Drive the vision, strategy, and end-to-end roadmap for a portfolio of products, partnering closely with our engineering, design, and marketing teams on execution.
  • Establish KPIs and metrics to evaluate product performance and customer satisfaction.
  • Collaborate with product marketing, support and the sales team to drive growth and adoption of our Observability products
  • Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition and technologies are evolving, and factor it, as well as feedback from internal groups and customers, into the product strategy
  • Act as spokesperson and champion for our products, clearly articulating vision, strategy, and product functionality to technical teams, executives, and customers.

Must-have Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product management experience
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent (MBA a plus)
  • Proven success in managing the end-to-end lifecycle of sophisticated, high-impact enterprise products.
  • Domain expertise in Observability, DevOps, Kubernetes, and / or related fields
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to lead, collaborate and influence via persuasion, patience and energy at all levels of the organization.
  • Excellent analytical / problem-solving skills. Ability to identify patterns and synthesize disparate data into a coherent whole
  • Experience with developing software, understanding engineering tradeoffs, and an intuition for the needs of the developers and operators who use our products
  • A passion for customer journey, user experience, usability and a knack for simplicity; willing and able to dive deep into technical requirements

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background in enterprise SaaS; bonus if those were observability or analytics related
  • Experience leading Observability products, including those involving application performance and infrastructure management.
  • Expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud technologies; Otel familiarity is a plus
  • Participation in all stages of the software development lifecycle, experience with Agile software methodologies
  • Knowledge of streaming data architectures, particularly metrics.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and participation in all stages of the software development lifecycle.

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.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are committed to equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Click here to review the US Department of Labor’s EEO is The Law notice. Please click here to review Splunk’s Affirmative Action Policy Statement. If you need assistance or an accommodation to apply or during the hiring process, please let us know by completing our Accommodation Request form.

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