Description

Director of Product Management – Automation and Response

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

Join us on our mission to make SOC automation intelligent, scalable, and accessible!

We’re looking for a visionary Director of Product Management – Automation and Response to lead the next chapter of innovation in security operations at Splunk. You’ll orchestrate product strategy, roadmap execution, and adoption success for Splunk’s automation and response capabilities across the unified Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) platform. Lead and grow a team of high-performing PMs, deliver ground-breaking automation experiences, and help security teams everywhere respond faster and smarter!

In this role you'll lead:

Strategic Ownership

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for automation and response within Splunk’s unified TDIR platform.
• Champion the value of automation in modern SOC workflows—from detection triage to collaborative response—anchored in customer needs, market trends, and AI-first execution.
• Lead integration strategy across Splunk SOAR and adjacent response surfaces in Enterprise Security, Mission Control, and emerging surfaces.

Team Leadership & Execution

• Build, lead, and inspire a world-class team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of vitality, creativity, and customer focus.
• Enable rapid product delivery in close collaboration with engineering, UX, field, and partner teams.
• Set clear priorities and success metrics while mentoring PMs on decision-making, partner alignment, and customer storytelling.

Platform Differentiation & Value Creation

• Own and evolve Splunk’s Response Framework and associated automation authoring capabilities—ensuring low-friction, high-impact user experiences for SOC users.
• Lower the barrier to automation for users across maturity levels by investing in prompt-driven authoring, workflow templates, and pre-built content ecosystems.
• Deliver uniquely differentiated value across the incident response lifecycle—from investigation triggers to cross-domain actions.

Product GTM and Adoption Success

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Support to drive adoption and usage growth across automation and response capabilities.
• Represent Splunk at industry events, analyst briefings, and with key customers—translating platform vision into outcomes-based narratives.
• Lead product launch strategies and define core critical metrics tied to usage, adoption, customer retention, and expansion.

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of Product Management experience, with 3+ years leading PM teams; ideally in security operations, automation platforms, or enterprise SaaS.
• Deep understanding of the Security Operations Center (SOC), including detection, investigation, and response workflows.
• Demonstrated success owning platform-wide initiatives spanning multiple product surfaces and cross-functional partners.
• Experience with automation platforms, playbooks, low-code tooling, or security integrations (e.g., SOAR, XDR, ITDR).
• Proven track record to drive product adoption, navigate sophisticated enterprise environments, and build for scale and usability.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills: can articulate value to C-level partners, field teams, and technical practitioners alike.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Prior experience with Splunk, SOAR platforms, or incident response tooling.
• Familiarity with open frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, OCSF, or MISP/STIX/TAXII.
• Demonstrated success in a platform unification or multi-surface orchestration context.
• MBA or equivalent experience in strategic planning, market development, or org design.

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.

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

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.

Annual Base Pay: $177,000 - $314,200 USD

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.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!