Job ID: 2000429

Engineering Product Manager – Enterprise Security

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. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Job Summary:

As a Principal Product Manager for Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), you will define and deliver the core SIEM capabilities that security teams depend on to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. You will serve as a technical leader and customer advocate, driving the product roadmap through deep engagement with practitioners, detection engineers, and security leaders across industries.

This role requires a blend of technical depth, domain expertise, and a passion for working directly with customers. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, UX, threat research, and field teams to bring customer-driven features to life and ensure Splunk ES continues to lead the SIEM market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Product Leadership: Lead the design and delivery of sophisticated SIEM capabilities — including triage and investigation workflow, and automation and response integrations.

• Customer Engagement: Act as the voice of the customer by engaging directly with enterprise security teams to understand operational workflows, sophisticated SOCs, and investigation/response challenges. Build long-term relationships with power users, security architects, and CISOs.

• End-to-End Use Case Ownership: Drive analyst-centric workflows for threat detection, triage, investigation, and response. Ensure seamless integration across the Splunk security portfolio, including SOAR, SAA, and AI/ML features.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Engineering and UX on technical design and delivery. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to ensure alignment on messaging, enablement, and customer adoption.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use telemetry, usage analytics, and feedback loops to prioritize investments and measure success.

• Competitive & Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of market trends, customer needs, and competitor moves. Translate those insights into product opportunities and strategic differentiators.

• Evangelism and Thought Leadership: Represent Splunk at customer briefings, webinars, industry events, and threat research discussions. Champion customer use cases and influence internal partners with real-world context.

What We’re Looking For:

• Security Operations Expertise: Proven experience in security operations, with a deep understanding of threat detection, incident response, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems.

• Proven Product Management Experience: Extensive experience in product management roles, preferably within the cybersecurity domain, demonstrating a track record of successful execution to bring security products to market.

• Strong Customer Orientation: Skilled at working directly with technical customers, understanding their environment, and translating needs into actionable requirements.

• Excellent Communication Skills: Able to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences — from detection engineers and architects to executive partners.

• Execution and Ownership: Strong organizational skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Splunk platform capabilities (e.g., Search Processing Language, data onboarding, dashboards, data models) and technical expertise around Splunk Security portfolio (e.g., Enterprise Security, SOAR, SAA, TIM, UBA).

Why Join Splunk?

At Splunk, we’re solving the world’s most ambitious problems in data and security. You'll be part of a collaborative and inclusive team that values innovation, transparency, and impact. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work, to try new things, and to challenge the status quo in pursuit of excellence.

By joining the team, you’ll

• Lead in the Industry: Develop the future of SIEM by building innovative capabilities that address real-world investigation and response challenges.

• Make a Global Impact: Help thousands of organizations around the world better defend themselves from evolving cyber threats

• Grow Your Career: Access outstanding opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and leadership development in a constantly evolving space.

• Be You, With Us: Thrive in a people-first culture that prioritizes diversity, flexibility, and work-life balance.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Why Cisco? 

At 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.

Fueled 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. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $191,400.00 to $281,400.00 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.

U.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.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 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

• Non-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

• Exempt 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)

• 80 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

• 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

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees 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:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$191,400.00 - $323,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$176,100.00 - $287,900.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.