Director, Product Management

Director, Product Management - Automation & Response

Our Product Management team is at the forefront of innovation, shaping the future of Cisco's offerings. As a Director, you will lead and inspire a team of talented product managers and senior individual contributors, driving the strategic direction and execution of key product initiatives. You'll be a pivotal part of our leadership, contributing directly to the overall product and functional business strategy that impacts a major area of Cisco.

Your Impact

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!

Strategic Ownership

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for automation and response within Splunk's unified TDIR platform.
• Lead 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product Management experience, 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity AND 5+ years of demonstrated experience in product management required, with 3+ years leading PM teams; ideally in SOC, 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 driving 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.

Preferred 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.

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.

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 ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto 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:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* 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.