Senior Data Pipeline Product Manager — Edge to Cloud

Cisco; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Splunk, a Cisco company, seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the next evolution of Splunk’s Data Pipeline Building experience. This high-impact role helps define how customers transform raw data into actionable, well-governed streams from edge to cloud, shaping APIs and UI building blocks for technical users.

You will own the vision and roadmap for pipeline-building capabilities, design intuitive experiences, incorporate voice of the customer, and collaborate with Splunk and Cisco teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s with 8+ years; or Master’s degree with 6+ years; or PhD with 3+ years of product management experience.
• 5+ years of delivering technical products in data platforms, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, observability, security analytics, stream processing, data integration, or enterprise data management.
• Experience owning product strategy, roadmap, requirements, launch planning, and post-launch iteration for complex technical products used by administrators, developers, platform engineers, security teams, or other technical users.
• Experience partnering with engineering and design teams to deliver product capabilities involving APIs, user interfaces, data movement, data transformation, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience defining product success metrics, using customer feedback and usage data to prioritize roadmap decisions, and measuring adoption, business impact, or customer value after launch.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and roadmap for pipeline-building capabilities that help customers create, iterate, and scale data processing workflows.
• Design intuitive experiences for admins, engineers, and technical users across visual pipeline building, reusable templates, stream-time transformations, and intelligent recommendations.
• Bring voice of the customer into product decisions, balancing technical depth with clarity, usability, and business impact.
• Drive market differentiation by staying ahead of trends in edge compute, data federation, stream processing, AI-assisted workflows, and enterprise data architecture.
• Collaborate across Splunk and Cisco, aligning engineering, design, customer success, field, GTM, and leadership stakeholders on roadmap priorities and tradeoffs.
• Help shape Splunk’s long-term data federation strategy, influencing how enterprise data is managed across clouds, regions, and environments.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap planning

APIs

UI design

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Master’s degree in a related field

PhD in a technical field

Tools

Kafka

Amazon Kinesis

Apache Spark

Flink

S3

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Splunk, a Cisco company, seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the next evolution of Splunk’s Data Pipeline Building experience. This high-impact role helps define how customers transform raw data into actionable, well-governed streams from edge to cloud, shaping APIs and UI building blocks for technical users.

You will own the vision and roadmap for pipeline-building capabilities, design intuitive experiences, incorporate voice of the customer, and collaborate with Splunk and Cisco teams to