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Meet the Team

Splunk Platform Strategy team sits at the center of Cisco and Splunk's combined data and AI strategy, turning one of the largest machine data estates in the industry into products customers trust to run their most critical operations. A senior, tight-knit group of product leaders working shoulder to shoulder with engineering, design, and research inside a product organization of more than 100 people. High ownership and low ego, with a bias toward sharp opinions, fast iteration, and decisions that hold up over multiple years rather than a single release

The Senior Director, Product Strategy, Splunk Platform, builds the foundational data platform and substrate, AI services, and shared capabilities that power Splunk's Security and Observability businesses across cloud and enterprise

Your Impact

• Design a future-proof substrate: Set the three-to-five-year product vision and strategy for the platform and its AI capabilities, starting from customer outcomes and working backward to build a substrate that powers Splunk and Cisco into the future.

• Prioritize the portfolio: Make hard trade-offs across contending investments to ensure the organization funds what matters most and retires what no longer moves the business. Develop a sharp, defensible point of view on the AI market, including agentic and LLM trends, to guide where the platform should lead, fast-follow, or partner.

• Partner for revenue: Partner with GTM, finance, and product marketing on pricing, packaging, and adoption paths so the strategy translates into tangible revenue rather than roadmap slides. Align leadership around a clear multi-year direction that engineering can implement and customers can actually adopt.

• Architect the "Agentic" Platform: Accelerate the transition of the Splunk platform from a data-storage substrate to an intelligent, agentic engine. Define the roadmap for how we integrate LLMs and autonomous workflows to enable customers to solve complex security and observability incidents with unprecedented speed and precision.

• Drive Cross-Portfolio Alignment: Lead the strategic integration of the Splunk platform into Cisco’s core networking and cloud control infrastructure (e.g., Nexus, SD-WAN, Meraki). Create a unified data fabric that allows Cisco’s massive customer base to ingest and act on telemetry across the entire network, creating a competitive moat that pure-play competitors cannot match.

• Bridge the On-Prem to Cloud Gap: Navigate the business complexities of a hybrid-cloud world by building a strategy that brings modern, cloud-native parity to our substantial on-premises customer base. Ensure a seamless transition path that reduces churn and drives long-term platform stickiness for our most critical enterprise accounts.

• Lead an Engineering-First Product Culture: Serve as the primary technical interface between product and engineering. Leverage your deep technical fluency in Kubernetes, data architecture, and modern AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to ensure that the platform strategy is grounded in architectural feasibility, operational excellence, and high-velocity code delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent industry experience.

• 10+ years of engineering management, product management or product strategy experience for software or platform products.

• Proven experience in defining multi-year product vision and roadmaps for cloud and enterprise software preferably in a platform environment.

• 3+ years working directly with AI/ML or data platform products, with deep technical fluency in how these systems are built and operated.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or MBA or equivalent industry experience.

• Consistent track record of managing high-revenue, multibillion dollar ARR product lines, with a demonstrated ability to scale platforms across diverse customer segments.

• Deep understanding of the architectural challenges associated with bridging on-premises legacy data estates with modern cloud-native, SaaS-based architectures.

• Experience navigating complex organizational integrations; specifically, experience aligning product roadmaps between two large-scale technology entities to create "better together" value propositions.

• Demonstrated success in owning end-to-end pricing, packaging, and GTM strategy for a complex portfolio, redefining technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes.

• Exceptional ability to influence C-suite partners and lead multi-functional engineering and product organizations within a highly matrixed, global enterprise environment.

• A track record of driving AI innovation, evidenced by contributions to industry standards, patents, or public thought leadership regarding agentic workflows and LLM-based data systems.

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 $267,600.00 to $339,400.00 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:

$280,100.00 - $442,600.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$267,600.00 - $390,300.00

* 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.