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. **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:** Own the design and delivery of advanced 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, complex 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 stakeholders 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 stakeholders. + **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 challenging 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 take risks, and to challenge the status quo in pursuit of excellence. **By joining the team, you’ll:** + **Lead in the Industry:** Shape 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 rapidly evolving space. + **Be You, With Us:** Thrive in a people-first culture that prioritizes diversity, flexibility, and work-life balance. **Cisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer** At Cisco, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. 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. **Base Pay Range** Base Pay Range: $185,000 - $234,000 When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.